[Marketing] OSGeo Flier

Paolo Cavallini cavallini at faunalia.it
Sun Apr 14 00:45:33 PDT 2013


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Il 14/04/2013 00:51, Alex Mandel ha scritto:
> We used to do this back when I started tabling for OSGeo in 2008. A
> page per project is unruly and takes up the whole table if you want
> a stack for each project. It can be partially mitigated with the
> magazine holder (see the Exhibition pack examples on the wiki). You
> also have to guess what ratio to make of each project for a given
> event. Example QGIS flyers went out 100:1 vs OSSIM at every
> geography conference, the really techy people who were interested
> in GDAL/OGR and web libraries just wanted urls.
> 
> Its also quite the expenditure to print all that paper. We had
> talked about at one point printing the Overviews and binding them
> similar to what you tried. I think good pdf output from sphinx was
> the holdup at one point. I am also not convinced this sells
> anything... I have bags and bags of stuff I've picked up at
> conferences and never looked at again until I went to recycle years
> later. The person who just walks by the table and takes one of each
> isn't the person we're targeting. To frame it differently, when we
> have had DVDs I've only put out 1 or 2 to draw attention but I
> never give one to a person without a volunteer first chatting with
> them and assessing if they're likely to actually use it.

Hi all.
Agreed with Alex, printing on paper, or even on DVD, is obsolete,
expensive, and environment unfriendly nowadays.
When (many, many years ago) we distributed DVD, we requested a
symbolic fee, just to make sure it will not end up being used as a
coaster or the like.
Also, I understand the need to give all projects adequate visibility,
but I think it is in OSGeo interest to put in evidence what is most
useful and interesting for users.
All the best.
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Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia
www.faunalia.eu
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