[GRASS-user] GRASS promotion team

[Tim Bowden]

On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 09:09 +0100, Malte Halbey-Martin wrote:
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> Hello all,
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> Markus proposed to form a GRASS promotion team to promote GRASS GIS. I
> agree with him that we need more "GRASS GIS awareness" in all kind of
> institutions. My own experience shows that most people working with
> GIS doesn't even know GRASS or think it's some of these unstable
> Freeware for nerds without knowing the potential of it. So I think we
> should start some sort of "Branding" ;-) .
> 
> So I think we should do some PR work and I would like to start. It
> would be great if there are some other people out there could join me.
> 
> The first thing I like to do is to create a brochure where all
> capabilities of GRASS are described which we can spread among
> potential GRASS users . The German GRASS user group had made one some
> time ago and I will see if we can use any of their ideas or templates
> or whatever.
> 
> There will be more work, like getting in contact with all people which
> might be interested in GRASS like govermental authorities, send Press
> releases from GRASS to interested magazins, websites, etc...  Build up
> of a contact database....
> 
> 
> I just see this mail as a kickoff because I think PR should not be
> unterestimenated.
> 
> Malte
> PS: Uuups, sorry. I just saw that a draft version of this email is in
> my send folder. Sorry, was late when I wrote it yesterday evening and
> I certainly pressed the wrong button....
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If there are any GRASS users in Sydney Australia this week, there is an
opportunity to demo GRASS at the Linux Australia conference
(http://linux.conf.au) open day on Thursday.  There is a group of us
setting up an Australian Chapter of OSGEO
(http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Australia).  We will be demonstrating
various open source GIS packages as part of an OSGEO promotion.  We
would be happy to include anyone who wishes to promote GRASS under the
OSGEO banner.

Regards,
Tim Bowden