[foss4g2014] Press releases party and brainstorming

[David Fawcett]

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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