[FOSS4G2016] Sharing marketing materials

Wed Oct 21 07:02:05 PDT 2015

I have to ask for the WCCB-logo. Normally they are very co-operative, 
but I'll ask.

@Volker: Should I also send some postcards?

Till

Am 2015-10-21 15:37, schrieb Volker Grescho:
> Hi,
>
>  for marketing reasons, we made a poster for the regional event "12.
> Mitteldeutsches Geoforum" in Leipzig, Germany.
>  We like to expand the poster with additional logos (e.g. WCCB logo).
> So, is it possible to put all logos from organisations, who support
> the FOSS4G 2016, to the server?
>  Or is this idea critical in relation to any copyrights?
>
>  Best regards
>
>  Volker Grescho
>
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> Am 21.10.2015 um 15:16 schrieb Gert-Jan van der Weijden:
>
>> I suppose you all have http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_PR
>> [21] bookmarked since its came into existance a few months ago.
>> (I'm sorry, the page name doesn't hold the word "marketing" in it.
>> I added "marketing" to the page's description. Hope that helps to
>> recognize it for everybody)
>>
>> And as stated before: Anton Popov and I are fine-tuning the logo
>> (in order to make sure it's readable on any backgroundcolor.
>> As soon as that's finished, we'll send the message out.
>>
>> Meanwhile, every LOC-er is still invited to add sites, portal,
>> magazines to the distribution list.
>>
>> Rgrds,
>>
>> GJ
>>
>> Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> [22] schreef:
>>
>>> Note that you can see now that people (website maintainers) are
>>> getting itchy to add the 2016 logo, and a marketing page still has
>>> not been developed for 2016 and sent to project teams (such as
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Marketing [15] or on the
>>> main website such as http://2015.foss4g.org/about/spread-the-word/
>>> [16]).
>>>
>>> This should be the top priority now.
>>>
>>> An example is Arnulf's logo message, which, is basically what I
>>> sent one month ago.
>>>
>>> Now it is one month later, almost November, we really need a
>>> marketing page setup and distributed.
>>>
>>> Should we consider funding this work?  Always a possibility. 
>>> Someone to create a page on the OSGeo wiki (such as
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Marketing [17]) or on the
>>> 2016 site (such as http://2015.foss4g.org/about/spread-the-word/
>>> [18]), and then also to send messages to all possible networks
>>> (this is an important marketing task), including project lists,
>>> IRC channels, direct messages.  One could start by using the list
>>> provided by Sanghee in the previous message in this thread, of
>>> popular referral sites for 2015.
>>>
>>> -jeff
>>>
>>> On 2015-10-10 10:25 AM, Sanghee Shin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> FYI, here are the top 30 referrals of FOSS4G Seoul webpage
>>>> except from
>>>> search engines.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> 신상희
>>>> ---
>>>> Shin, Sanghee
>>>> Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company
>>>> http://www.gaia3d.com [14]
>>>>
>>>>> 2015. 10. 10., 오후 1:07, Jeff McKenna
>>>>> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com [9]
>>>>> <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> [10]> 작성:
>>>>>
>>>>> Moved the QGIS ticket to the proper tracker
>>>>> (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website/issues/283 [11]).  It
>>>>> would be great
>>>>> if a designer could comment there and provide a custom image
>>>>> for their
>>>>> homepage widget, following their requirements of "940px ×
>>>>> 300px and
>>>>> taking into consideration the black stuff on bottom of the
>>>>> banner on
>>>>> qgis.org <http://qgis.org> [12]".
>>>>>
>>>>> Again, spending time to support the qgis.org
>>>>> <http://qgis.org> [13] website
>>>>> is worth it, as it gets the most traffic of any marketing
>>>>> material for
>>>>> each FOSS4G.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> -jeff
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2015-10-09 6:07 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Some updates:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - added logo to http://www.foss4g.org/ [1]
>>>>>> - added logo to http://www.osgeo.org/ [2]
>>>>>> - added logo to http://www.mapserver.org/ [3]
>>>>>> - filed a ticket to change the logo on http://qgis.org [4]
>>>>>> (always the
>>>>>> most hits for FOSS4G each year).  Actually if the 2016
>>>>>> designer can join
>>>>>> this ticket directly there that would be great, as last
>>>>>> year the Seoul
>>>>>> team created a custom banner to fit the widget on qgis.org
>>>>>> <http://qgis.org> [5] ("940px ×
>>>>>> 300px and taking into consideration the black stuff on
>>>>>> bottom of the
>>>>>> banner on qgis.org <http://qgis.org> [6]").  Please join
>>>>>> the discussion at
>>>>>> https://hub.qgis.org/issues/13555 [7]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I suggest that by next week you create a reference page for
>>>>>> these
>>>>>> materials, such as [1] and distribute that around to many
>>>>>> project
>>>>>> mailing lists, as each year most of the FOSS4G traffic is
>>>>>> from these
>>>>>> logos on different sites.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2010_Marketing [8]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -jeff
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> FOSS4G2016 mailing list
>>> FOSS4G2016 at lists.osgeo.org [19]
>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2016 [20]
>>
>> Gert-Jan van der Weijden
>> Voorzitter Stichting OSGeo.nl
>> _______________________________________________
>> FOSS4G2016 mailing list
>> FOSS4G2016 at lists.osgeo.org [23]
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2016 [24]
>
>
>
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://www.foss4g.org/
> [2] http://www.osgeo.org/
> [3] http://www.mapserver.org/
> [4] http://qgis.org
> [5] http://qgis.org
> [6] http://qgis.org
> [7] https://hub.qgis.org/issues/13555
> [8] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2010_Marketing
> [9] mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
> [10] mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
> [11] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website/issues/283
> [12] http://qgis.org
> [13] http://qgis.org
> [14] http://www.gaia3d.com
> [15] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Marketing
> [16] http://2015.foss4g.org/about/spread-the-word/
> [17] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Marketing
> [18] http://2015.foss4g.org/about/spread-the-word/
> [19] mailto:FOSS4G2016 at lists.osgeo.org
> [20] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2016
> [21] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_PR
> [22] mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
> [23] mailto:FOSS4G2016 at lists.osgeo.org
> [24] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2016