[VisCom] Geospatial Events calendar?

[Milton Lofberg]

Hi,

Brochures: If we expect 300-400 then My advice would be to only do
100-150 of each; the thinking is that if you run out, then you have
talked to the interested party anyway and you get their details - it
gives you a reason to maintain the relationahip and followup the
contact. 

T-shirts: I will check whether we can get something done. Is it real bad
if we resort to iron-ons as a once-off for the short-notice? Should I
consider Polos? If I can get them embroidered in the future is that
acceptable? I'm thinking of pricing up the options anyway. Are OSGeo
baseball hats de rigeur?

You may have seen Pieter's posting regarding $s for support. We are
prosecuting that.

Cheers

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael P. Gerlek [mailto:mpg at lizardtech.com] 
Sent: Thursday, 11 January 2007 06:25
To: Tyler Mitchell (External); Tim Bowden
Cc: Milton Lofberg; OSGeo Visibility committee
Subject: RE: [VisCom] Geospatial Events calendar?

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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