[Marketing] Hey, tradeshow marketing works!

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Good find Michael, and cheers to the Intergeo OSGeo gang!!

Tyler

On 10-Dec-08, at 3:48 PM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:

> In the "editor's desk" column of the December 2008 issue of  
> Professional Survey Magazine (page 4), Tom Gibson talks about the  
> importance of software.  A few paragraphs in, he gives a paragraph  
> of introduction to the idea of open source software (citing Linux,  
> natch), and then the next paragraph reads as follows:
>
>     "Here again, the survey arena benefits.  While strolling the  
> aisles of [the] Intergeo
>     trade show in Germany last year, I picked up a brochure on the  
> Open Geospatial Foundation
>     (OSGeo), which promotes the collaborative development of open  
> geospatial technologies
>     and data.  As an example of its efforts, MapGuide Open Source  
> is a web-based platform
>     that enables users to quickly develop and deploy web mapping  
> applications and geospatial
>     web services.  The brochure pointed out that the United States  
> has a great amount of
>     spatial data in the public domain, while in most other  
> countries, it is subject to
>     copyright and heavy licensing fees."
>
> Not bad: he gets what OSGeo does, he mentions MapGuide as a useful  
> tool, and he talks about free data.  Three good talking good  
> points, all on-message, and all from our outreach efforts.
>
> Kudos to the brochure cabal!
>