[Marketing] AAG outreach

[Cameron Shorter]

On 11/05/11 06:36, Alex Mandel wrote:
> On 05/10/2011 01:29 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
>> Quick question, I was wondering if anyone knows the best way to get the word out to the AAG crowd about FOSS4G.  Obviously our booth was a good one, but I'm thinking more about mailing lists and newsletters.  Anyone familiar with a good approach?  We can get them on our press release list.
>>
>> Tyler
> I already had them add it to their Newsletter Calendar - just had to
> email the editor. The next thing I would suggest is actually targeting
> specific speciality groups within the AAG and seeing if you can get the
> heads of those to send out an email press release.
>
> Some groups:
> Cyberinfrastructure (They have sponsored our FOSS sessions at the AAG in
> the past)
> Geographic Information Science and Systems
> Cartography
>
> http://www.aag.org/cs/membership/specialty_groups
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
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Further to Alex's comments, I suggest writing an article for magazines 
that AAG members read, talking about what sort of things they can expect 
to see at FOSS4G. What applications they should expect to see talked 
about, etc.

I wrote a number of these articles in 2009, which you can see here:
https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/2009/documents/propaganda/articles/

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