[Viscom-dev] OSGeo Marketing strategy...

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

On 8-Oct-07, at 3:40 PM, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:

> During the OSGeo board meeting we discussed OSGeo's work on  
> marketing in the coming year. One thing was the paper work (flyers,  
> journal, conference stuff etc..) and the other area of focus would  
> be the website.

Printed material is certainly lacking - your GeoNetwork flyers put  
all the other material at the OSGeo booth to shame... so I trust that  
you have some good ideas for next steps to improve this!

> I think OSGeo really needs to push on the marketing part of things  
> to get wider recognition and also a more visible "value for money"  
> message that can be used when discussing with potential sponsors.  
> I'm very keen to work on this and get all OSGeo outreach better  
> streamlined (web & paper & conference materials etc...)

Thanks for stepping up to dig in further.  +1 for you to discuss  
further with anyone you know.  Can you give us an update and/or ideas  
for tomorrows meeting?  More in another note about the meeting.

Tyler