[foss4g2014] December 2nd Press release party ( was: Press releases party and brainstorming)

Wed Nov 27 09:47:32 PST 2013

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:43 AM, David Percy <percyd at pdx.edu> wrote:
> I can't make it until after I get out of class, but I will swing by around 7
> on my way home!

Cool, we'll have a lot going by then

>
> we have a planning meeting the next night, right?

Yup.

Eli

>
>
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Darrell Fuhriman <darrell at garnix.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> That's sounds great.
>>
>> I have a GoPro we can use for all the activity shots...
>>
>> d.
>>
>>
>> On Nov 25, 2013, at 20:58, 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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