[foss4g2014] Press releases party and brainstorming

[Wm Leler]

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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