[VisCom] Geospatial Events calendar?

Thu Jan 11 12:43:38 EST 2007

I have a bunch of T-shirts here (Seattle) on hand -- how many do you
need, to where, and by when?

-mpg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: visibilitycommittee_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> [mailto:visibilitycommittee_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On 
> Behalf Of Tim Bowden
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 6:45 PM
> To: Tyler Mitchell
> Cc: Milton Lofberg; OSGeo Visibility committee
> Subject: Re: [VisCom] Geospatial Events calendar?
> 
> On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 11:17 -0800, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Yes, it has helped to give us some momentum.  It would have been nice
> have a bit more time, but we work with what we have.  Only cost is
> printing & T-shirts. Looks like Milton is going to take the $ side of
> things under his wing for now.  Thanks Milton.
> 
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> 
> Thanks, getting them now.
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Looks like Milton will oversee getting some local shirts done.
> 
> > > 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.
> > 
> 
> A formal press release is probably overkill, but it would be 
> nice to get
> the word out is some of the OSGeo friendly blogs around.  I see two
> target audiences for what we are doing; FOSS developers doing 
> GIS (or on
> the fringe of GIS) who are unaware of OSGeo, and the 
> technical/business
> GIS crowd who are curious or ignorant about GeoFOSS.
> 
> The first can be targeted at the open day and the lca lightning talk
> which is for conference delegates only (dev centric crowd).
> 
> The second can be targeted at the open day which is free for 
> anybody to
> attend.  We need to let them know it's on and what they can 
> get from it
> as they probably won't be at the open day otherwise.  Given the
> timeframe, a plug on some GIS blogs is about the best 
> resource available
> for reaching them.  I've listed a few GIS blogs on
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/LCA_Open_Day but the list is far from
> complete.
> 
> > 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 ;-) )
> > 
> 
> Will do, Wayne is a great bloke.  If we can't find common 
> ground there,
> it's time to change career.
> 
> > Best wishes!  I'm on/offline during moving this week but 
> will still  
> > be doing work.
> > 
> > Tyler
> 
> Happy moving!  I've done it too many times to think it's 
> anything but a
> big headache.
> 
> Regards,
> Tim Bowden
> 
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