[VisCom] Geospatial Events calendar?

[Michael P. Gerlek]

I'm sorry I'm not following this thread closely -- I'm really busy
preparing a presentation entitled "Open Source Licensing 101"... :-(

HOWEVER, I still do plan to have a VisCom mtg on Friday to try and clear
the decks of the Event plans for '07...

-mpg

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: visibilitycommittee_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> [mailto:visibilitycommittee_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On 
> Behalf Of Tyler Mitchell
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:18 AM
> To: Tim Bowden
> Cc: Milton Lofberg; OSGeo Visibility committee
> Subject: Re: [VisCom] Geospatial Events calendar?
> 
> On 10-Jan-07, at 9:22 AM, Tim Bowden wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I've just had a look at those links and the first question I  
> > have to
> > ask is where does that leave us with our stand at the lca open day?
> > (http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Australia#LCA_Open_Day)  We haven't
> > gone through any of the process outined; I guess we just assumed we
> > could do an OSGeo promotion; probably because it's all been 
> a rush job
> > on short notice.  Given Frank and Tyler's positive response so far I
> > assume that's not too much of a problem ;-)  Whatever we do, we  
> > have to
> > be quick as we have only 1 week till the open day to get organised.
> 
> I think we're all happy to see you organising something and that  
> Arnulf's comments may be more focused on larger, more formal events  
> that need more OSGeo official help (i.e. funding, volunteer  
> enticement, etc).  At least I am happy to see a local group  
> organising a presence at this event.  As part of VisCom, I'm 
> happy to  
> help with getting your event going.  Though it hasn't been on our  
> radar before now, I see it as a great opportunity to help give the  
> Australian chapter some momentum to get organised.  Do you have  
> sponsorships already or enough volunteer funding to help get the  
> stand and brochure printing?
> 
> > Practical matters; We will need to get our brochures printed.  I'm
> > thinking about 300 of each.  (Cameron / Milton any better estimate?
> > There are expected to be 300-400 through the gates.  I can't
> > see /everyone/ wanting a brochure)  That should leave us with some  
> > over
> > for the next event.  What brochures or posters are available please?
> 
> The brochures are available at:
> http://osgeo.org/files/viscom/OSGeo_Brochures_v1_PDF.zip
> and a double-sided (or two page) overview sheet is here:
> http://osgeo.org/files/viscom/OSGeo_Overview.pdf
> 
> And a openoffice presentation file I pulled together (nothing 
> fancy!)  
> is here:
> http://osgeo.org/files/viscom/au2006_slideshow.odp - you should be  
> able to run it and walk away.
> 
> There are single PDF files, one for each project (excluding  
> OpenLayers and GeoNetworks, unfortunately).  There is also 
> one PDF in  
> there that has all these projects as separate pages - so you can  
> easily print all of them quickly and/or use them in a slideshow.   
> There are 10 altogether and they are starting to show their age, but  
> it's all we've got right now.
> 
> As an aside, if anyone wants to try out their graphic layout skills  
> using http://scribus.net software - I have source files for all the  
> brochures.  They need some updating (logo) and we need a couple more  
> to be produced.
> 
> > T-shirts.  The Event management page recomends OSGeo T-shirts.  We  
> > would
> > only need 4 (I think) however there probably isn't enough 
> time to get
> > that sorted.
> 
> Tell us what sizes you could use - if we have them in stock, 
> we might  
> be able to ship them.  Otherwise I agree it is too quick to get them  
> organised.  If you find a local vendor that could rush some  
> silkscreening or something, you could grab our logo and try it out.
> 
> > Publication. Once we know what we are doing we need to get 
> the word  
> > out
> > on the street in Sydney.  Not sure yet where.  What GIS blogs can  
> > we get
> > a mention on?
> 
> What does the rest of VisCom think - would we want to do a press  
> release?  We usually reserve those for large organisation-wide  
> announcements though.  I'd at least target DirectionsMag and Slashgeo.
> 
> I'm keen to see you get into this conference and will do whatever I  
> can to help.  Especially if you say hi for me to Wayne Piekarski who  
> also has a stand on some great augmented reality stuff.  (Bonus  
> points if you find some common ground for us to work with him ;-) )
> 
> Best wishes!  I'm on/offline during moving this week but will still  
> be doing work.
> 
> Tyler
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