[VisCom] A China chapter press release?

[Michael P. Gerlek]

I wasn't able to get this done this week, sorry.

I will try and put something together immediately when I return.

-mpg
 

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> From: fwarmerdam at gmail.com [mailto:fwarmerdam at gmail.com] On 
> Behalf Of Frank Warmerdam
> Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 11:16 AM
> To: dev at visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org
> Cc: chenrg at lreis.ac.cn; raghavan
> Subject: Re: [VisCom] A China chapter press release?
> 
> On 9/9/06, Michael P. Gerlek <mpg at lizardtech.com> wrote:
> > I am thinking about writing a press release about OSGeo's growing
> > international presence.  The key item would be the launch 
> of our chapter
> > in China, but would go on to include a few paragraphs about 
> the other
> > chapters across the world that we are forming, esp. those 
> in Asia.  Why
> > local organizations are important to us, ebenfits of getting
> > internationalization and translation of products, support for
> > governments and countries that are increasingly looking for
> > "alternative" approaches such as open source, etc.
> >
> > Publication date would be around the 19th of September, the 
> date of the
> > China meeting.
> 
> Michael,
> 
> My only thought on this is that we likely ought to
> give similar billing to the new India chapter since
> it is formed around the same time, in a similar sized
> nation and with distinguished initial members.
> 
> The downside is that I don't believe there is a
> comparable launch event to the one I believe is
> occuring in China this month.
> 
> Best regards
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