[Marketing] Event listing (was: [Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Which 2011 conferences should we distribute OSGeo-Live DVDs at?])

[Cameron Shorter]

Arnulf,
Thanks for the reminder, I agree that we should consolidate this event 
information.

What is required by event organisers, and the osgeo-live team, is a 
chronological list of upcoming events. To achieve this currently from 
the wiki, you would need to dig through 20 or so web pages, which is not 
practical.

The RSS feed of events at http://osgeo.org looks promising, if we can 
have all potential events listed via that RSS feed.
I assume we'd be able to assign categories to the feed?
Eg: have: http://osgeo.org/rss_events?category=proposed

What options do we have available to us for the RSS feed?
Alternatively, we could create a master wiki table, or google 
spreadsheet listing upcoming events in chronological order.

On 29/10/10 00:40, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
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> Folks,
> we had several efforts to collect information about events. One of them
> was in the Wiki by creating a start page for whichever events that might
> be interesting to OSGeo and then awarding it different categories. We
> would move it up from Proposed [1] to Events [2] (which requires a
> committed Event Owner [3]) and then to Past Events [4] for documentation
> and archival purposes. This is a great way to organize things (at least
> that was what I thought at the time we started it :-) but it does not
> really work too well. :-(
>
> Recurring events seem to manage fairly well, this obviously includes
> FOSS4G but also AGIT, Intergeo, FOSSGIS [5], etc. They have their own
> recurring page and then annual sub pages.
>
> Then we have the "Upcoming events" section on the OSGeo main web site
> http://www.osgeo.org/ which seems to work just fine. Cameron now created
> a Google spreadsheet and the FOSS4G 2011 team had it's own list of
> parallel events [6] duplication these efforts. But these are all only
> informational and do not contain any information about how OSGeo was
> involved.
>
> It might be worth while to look into the way we manage OSGeo appearances
>   and potentially bundle resources (and clean up a bit while we are at it).
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Arnulf.
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Proposed_Events
> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Events
> [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Event_Owner
> [4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Past_Events
> [5] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSSGIS_Konferenzen
> [6] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2011_Other_Conferences
>
> - -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Which 2011 conferences should we distribute
> OSGeo-Live DVDs at?
> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:24:31 +1100
> From: Cameron Shorter<cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: OSGeo Discussions<discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
> To: OSGeo Discussions<discuss at lists.osgeo.org>,
> "live-demo at lists.osgeo.org"<live-demo at lists.osgeo.org>
>
>   The OSGeo-Live project puts out releases every 6 months, and I'm
> currently in the process of picking release dates for 2011.
>
> I'm currently expecting to put out our next release in mid March 2011,
> and the foss4g 2011 release at the end of August 2011.
>
> However we do have a little wiggle room to adjust these dates to
> accommodate next year's conferences.
> Can people please let me know of all upcoming conferences or workshops
> where it would be appropriate to include OSGeo-Live DVDs.
>
> Feel free to add the conferences, dates, and contact person (if you
> know) into our schedule here:
> https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdE1SYUN3YWJ2N1NpSUczbW9IRWZNclE&hl=en_GB#gid=0
>
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