[Marketing] Marketing Meeting

[percy]

Tyler thought I should join the marketing committee so we could talk 
about OSGEO presence at OSCON in Portland this year. I've represented 
OSGEO in this capacity for the last two years.

Since AutoDesk isn't sponsoring a booth this year, I thought I'd get 
creative and see what we could come up with.

IBM sponsors a booth for PSU every year, usually. Bart Massey from our 
CS dept is in charge of it (and, incidentally, Goog SOC), and he gets 
student volunteers to staff the booth and talk about OS at PSU. Also, 
Oregon State's Open Source Labs (OSL) is usually at that booth. This 
year Bart has agreed, over lunch today, to have us focus on open source 
GIS. So I will help corral some students and we'll talk about our 
web-mapping products. I assume we'll put up the OSGEO banner and have 
pamplets.

Tim Welch from EcoTrust has also offered to help. He was one of our PSU 
student volunteers last year, and now has a real job doing development 
using most OSGEO tools. (maybe he should be a case study).

Anyway... I think a BOF where we show off some cool apps, maybe do some 
lighting talks would be nice. Perhaps OSGEO could pay for some food or 
drink for that, and rent a projector...
And a pass to the conference that we could all share would be a nice perk!
:-)

Cheers,
Percy

percy wrote:
> Sorry I'm late, having network problems. I'm David Percy, GeoSpatial 
> Data Manager for the Geology Dept at Portland State University. Tyler 
> thought I should join the marketing committee so we could talk about 
> OSGEO presence at OSCON in Portland this year. I've represented OSGEO in 
> this capacity for the last two years.
> 
> Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
>> Wednesday at 2pm for me, I'll try to be there.
>>
>> -mpg
>>
> 

-- 
David Percy
Geospatial Data Manager
Geology Department
Portland State University
http://gisgeek.pdx.edu
503-725-3373