[foss4g2014] reminder press release party tonight, Lucky Lab Hawthorne 5:30

Mon Dec 2 06:53:44 PST 2013

http://calagator.org/events/1250465270

Hope to see you there.

Eli

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:
> Glad to spark some ideas :)
>
> Let's get together and further these ideas.
>
> Where: Lucky Lab Hawthorne
> (http://luckylab.com/locations/hawthorne-lucky-labrador-brew-pub/)
> When: December 2nd, 5:30pm
> What: Fun and some work, rough agenda below
>
> Rough Agenda:
> - Keep brainstorming and refining ideas
> - Write press releases
> - Identify and contact potential media outlet
> - Decide on video details (i.e. who has a camera, who can film,
> format, video editing ideas, etc)
> - Sign up for videos (world's smallest park, bridges, bikes, rivers,
> boats, going to work, etc).  At least, film all PDX-OSGeo'ers who
> regularly bike to work or around PDX.
> - Add more here...
>
> See you there!
>
> Eli
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:56 PM, David Fawcett <david.fawcett at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Great ideas.  I can work with Bitner on the Minneapolis connections.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Wm Leler <wmleler at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> These are awesome ideas.  I love it.  --wm
>>>
>>> On 22 Nov 2013, at 11:49 AM, Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi All,
>>> >
>>> > We have so much theme material [1]!  With all this theme material, I'd
>>> > like to start rolling it into promotional material and making a list
>>> > of where to use this promotional material.
>>> >
>>> > Brainstorming and working in an evening social session to make
>>> > promotional material could be fun.  We'll need to write some press
>>> > releases soon.  Who wants to join me?
>>> >
>>> > We have a great video targeted towards an international audience,
>>> > which explains Oregon geographically in reference to California.  This
>>> > could become the basis for numerous additional spoof videos ("...For
>>> > you Europeans, Oregon is the state just north of California. For those
>>> > of you in Seattle, Oregon is the state that buffers you from
>>> > California. ...For Californians, Oregon is your hat that keeps the
>>> > rain off (image of map of CA and OR distorted into rainhat and rain
>>> > being shed). ...For those of you in Portland, Oregon is the 99%+ rest
>>> > of the state that you don't notice. ...For those of you in Minneapolis
>>> > or Halifax, we are at almost the same latitude, but we wake up later
>>> > (sleep in longer). ...For Australians, Oregon is your second closest
>>> > neighbor (hey isn't everything other than NZ 'far'?) more geo jokes
>>> > here (Funny but very simplistic images attached).
>>> >
>>> > Looking at the excellent publicly documented and logically laid out
>>> > 2009 example recipebook/example could be a good starting point for us
>>> > [2] [3].  There is also the not quite as complete FOSS4G Handbook [4]
>>> > and in the last few days, Nottingham has gone on a kick filling in
>>> > information [5] [6].
>>> >
>>> > Here are a few cracks at promotional material based on some of the
>>> > theme material.
>>> >
>>> > Before the days of PostGIS, geometric buffer was done by releasing
>>> > 'buffer birds' carrying rocks in a radial pattern. After a specific
>>> > amount of time, the birds would drop their rocks marking the buffered
>>> > feature. The number of birds released was proportional to the distance
>>> > of the buffer and there was always some debate as to the best color of
>>> > rock to use for the buffer. These finer points have now been master by
>>> > Portland's artisan geometric craftspeople who still practice this art.
>>> > Come to PDX to sample our craft beer, ride our handmade bikes, carry
>>> > your laptop in our handmade bike bags, and yes, use our buffer birds.
>>> > Or just come to FOSS4G 2014 to learn about buffer done by PostGIS (or
>>> > OGR with sqlite dialect, or GeoTools, or JTS/GEOS, or GeoServer, or
>>> > MapServer, or....lots more buffer software to feature here).
>>> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPKe9OfWs-M
>>> >
>>> > Riding to PDX(/FOSS4G). - A theme of pictures or short videos of the
>>> > many PDX-OSGeo'ers who ride their bike to work. Preferably wearing an
>>> > OSGeo shirt, crossing an iconic bridge, incrementing the bike counter,
>>> > etc. We can then also get into some geometric musing on this, which
>>> > direction do/will people ride? We can then try to make this a theme in
>>> > other cities too, get videos of David Bitner riding his bike to work
>>> > in the snow in MN, "David Bitner is riding to PDX (270.5 degrees)"
>>> > "Aaron Racicot is unicycling to PDX while on a ferry crossing the
>>> > Puget Sound (181 degrees) [Aaron, if you come up with video like this
>>> > in an OSGeo shirt, we'll seriously owe you]"  Ride to us, see you in
>>> > PDX September 8-13th.
>>> >
>>> > Listen to this gem from David Bitner, "One of the favorite stupid
>>> > sayings in the bike community here 'Portland is just a bike lane in
>>> > Minneapolis' Portland Avenue was one of the first on street commuter
>>> > oriented bike lanes when Minneapolis started getting serious about
>>> > bikes."  If we have "riding to FOSS4G/PDX" promotional material, we
>>> > can definitely play on this.
>>> >
>>> > "Riding to FOSS4G/PDX" can lead to other transportation fun.  Wearing
>>> > OSGeo t-shirt while paddling kayak in Willamette, whole rowing team in
>>> > OSGeo shirts, on Trimet, on the aerial tram, walking, ... cross
>>> > country skiing .... motorcycle... skateboard... waterskiing...
>>> >
>>> > Please wait until we formally release these as promotional material
>>> > before spreading them everywhere (i.e. the time for extensive
>>> > tweeting, blogging, Press Releases, etc will come once we have
>>> > something more than funny ideas kicking around).
>>> >
>>> > What are your ideas?  How can these be improved?  What are good venues
>>> > for using the promotional material?  When/where do people want to work
>>> > on this material?  Who wants to put on an OSGeo shirt and shoot a
>>> > video of them riding in some iconic PDX location or manner?  Who wants
>>> > to help shoot those videos?
>>> >
>>> > Eli
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > [1]
>>> > http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/foss4g2014/2013-November/000146.html
>>> > [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_1
>>> > [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:FOSS4G2009
>>> > [4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Handbook
>>> > [5] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2013_Cookbook
>>> > [6] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2013_Reflections_by_the_LOC
>>> >
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