[Marketing] Hello

[Jody Garnett]

If it helps geoserver has a quick fix guide showing how non-developers can
make a doc change:

http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/docguide/quickfix.html

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Jody Garnett

On 29 May 2016 at 13:10, Guido Stein <guido at guidostein.com> wrote:

> Cameron,
>
> I agree 100%
>
> Do you have some proposals on how to make this sustainable?
>
> Right now it's a git repo which allows anyone to make and edit and do a
> pull request. This is great for getting technical people involved, but I
> think we will need to make it a little more accessible for others...
>
> I think it would be useful to make a way for people to tie into this page
> with meetup or other event sites. (eventbrite, lanyrd, etc..)
>
> For the moment it's a proof of concept to show that a nice clean list
> would be a great start.
>
> also... I didn't add it yet, but I assume we should be adding the esri
> events on here too... yes? I think having a listing of all events will make
> the user community on this site bigger.
>
> -Guido
>
> On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 8:24 AM Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Guido,
>> Listing geospatial events is a good idea. I've seen a number of similar
>> initiates start, but not stand the test of time.
>> Like any web page, the challenge is ensuring it remains continually up to
>> date. This can be done by either having static content, or finding someone
>> (or some people) willing to keep the content up to date.
>> It also helps to lots of people referencing the material, which in turn
>> leads to attracting volunteers to keep the site up to date.
>> Warm regards, Cameron
>>
>>
>> On 25/05/2016 10:08 am, Guido Stein wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps we a cimpler site that is a little more inviting to the public
>> for listing the events?
>>
>> Here is a mockup I put together... what do you think?
>>
>> geospatial.events
>>
>> -Guido
>>
>> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 2:12 PM Jody Garnett < <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>> jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> One thing I notice on twitter is regional foss4g events taking place
>>> that could use some love, Jeff McKenna is doing a great job asking for
>>> photos and retweeting logos.
>>>
>>> We have also just had the "osgeo community
>>> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects>" projects go
>>> live on the website <http://www.osgeo.org>, so it is time to make a
>>> press release or blog post explaining what that is about.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
>>> On 19 May 2016 at 10:19, Guido Stein <guido at guidostein.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks, I'll check them out.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a list of priorities for things that need to get updated?
>>>>
>>>> -Guido
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:05 PM Alex M <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 05/19/2016 09:59 AM, Guido Stein wrote:
>>>>> > I would be happy to help out with some work on building regular
>>>>> material
>>>>> > for distribution within the community.
>>>>>
>>>>> Previous materials:
>>>>> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/marketing
>>>>>
>>>>> In my experience a blog,
>>>>>
>>>>> http://planet.osgeo.org/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> newsletter,
>>>>> > or regular update
>>>>>
>>>>> https://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal
>>>>>
>>>>> can go a long way towards making the people feel
>>>>> > connected to the community.
>>>>>
>>>>> Feel free to jump in and help update and improve any of those.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Alex
>>>>>
>>>>
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