[foss4g2014] Location of FOSS4G2014 on website

[Eli Adam]

Hi Jeroen,

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Jeroen Ticheler
<jeroen.ticheler at geocat.net> wrote:
> Dear LOC,
>
> While putting the new foss4g logo on http://geonetwork-opensource.org I ran into the following:

Thank you for putting up a logo and linking to us.  Projects are a
major source of web traffic for FOSS4G.

>
> Although it seems very obvious, for some reason it is not very clear where FOSS4G2014 will be held from your website. On the homepage there is no reference to the location except the PDX reference (which means nothing to a Dutchman like me :-).

That is a good idea to make it overwhelmingly obvious on the homepage
that FOSS4G is in Portland, Oregon, USA. We've made some changes
towards that.

PDX is a local name for the City and area but it is also the airport
code.  It is possible to fly to "other Portlands" several thousand
miles away and we don't want that, that is part of our emphasis on
PDX.

> On the about page the location is actually mentioned. And call me blind, but even that was not immediately apparent to me.
> So my suggestion is to put clearly on the site where we will actually go to meet all of you!

I've also added a link to OSM on the getting to Portland page,
https://2014.foss4g.org/getting-to-portland/ so people can pan and
zoom around and see Portland in relation to things they already know.

Thanks for the visitor perspective and please let us know anything
else that strikes you as odd from the visitor perspective.  See you in
Portland, Oregon / PDX.

Best Regards, Eli


>
> Cheers,
> Jeroen
>
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