[Aust-NZ] FOSS4G 2007: Next steps:

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Mon Feb 11 03:08:54 PST 2008


Thanks Shoaib,
Good start.

I'd agree with Tim, let's make sure we have a polished press release, 
which we simultaneously release from all sources.
As we don't have any major deadlines, I suggest we release next Tuesday 
19 Feb. This gives us a week to polish, and ensures that we get maximum 
publicity from Position Magazine.

Lets get some choice quotes from key players.

We can collectively edit a press release linked from: 
https://extranet.lisasoft.com/wiki/index.php/Foss4g-sydney

(Last use for the lisasoft wiki before we move to an OSGeo wiki)


Shoaib Burq wrote:
> Good one Tim. Here is my slightly bloated version, please hack away 
> and sorry for my ignorance but do we have a media contact at this 
> point? Also can we use the OSGeo logo until we get one for the conf. 
> with the outline of the opera house :)
>
> Straw man (take2):
> --------------
>
> *FOSS4G2009 Sydney Australia*
> *                                                            
> **          **          **"**User Driven FOSS4G"***
>
> * *
>
> *Sydney (Australia) selected to host the seventh annual conference on 
> "Free & Open Source Software for Geoinformatics" (FOSS4G) in 2009*
>
> *Monday, 11 February 2008*  Aust-NZ OSGeo Aust-NZ at lists.osgeo.org 
> <mailto:Aust-NZ at lists.osgeo.org>
>
>
> The Aust-NZ chapter of OSGeo is pleased to announce we have been 
> selected to host the FOSS4G 2009 international conference.  The 
> conference is planned for Sydney in November 2009, and is expected to 
> attract the leading players in the open source geospatial community.
>
> Holding this conference in the Asia-Pacific region will bring enormous 
> benefit to the region and will provide those in the wider geospatial 
> community an opportunity to discover the cutting edge of spatial 
> software development through to the state of the art in enterprise 
> deployment.
>
> ####
>
> *About OSGeo*
>
> /Please add …/
>
> * *
>
> *About FOSS4G*
>
> The spatial industry has been undergoing rapid innovations over the 
> last 4 years. The FOSS4G movement has been at the forefront of this 
> change due to its openness to share ideas, code and data. From its 
> beginnings the FOSS4G conference has had a reputation of being a 
> melting pot for great ideas in the spatial industry and a catalyst for 
> many successful geospatial products, standards and protocols. The 2007 
> conference was held in Victoria, BC, Canada and was a huge success 
> (www.foss4g2007.org <http://www.foss4g2007.org/>). 2008 conference 
> will be held in Cape Town, South Africa (www.foss4g2008.org 
> <http://www.foss4g2008.org/>). FOSS4G 2009 Sydney will be the seventh 
> "formal" gathering of the open source geospatial community and is 
> expected to focus on the increasing importance of FOSS4G in the public 
> and private enterprise.
>
>  
>
> *Media Contacts:**
> *Cameron Shorter
> Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
> Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
>
> -------------------
>
>
> On Feb 11, 2008 6:32 PM, Tim Bowden <tim.bowden at westnet.com.au 
> <mailto:tim.bowden at westnet.com.au>> wrote:
>
>
>     On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 15:11 +0800, Dr. Markus Lupp wrote:
>     > Tim Bowden schrieb:
>     > >
>     > > Publicity roll (Blogs etc):
>     > > Shoaib, Paul Ramsey, Chris Tweedie, Tyler Mitchell, slashgeo,
>     > > geowanking, nzopengis, banyon(geo challenged),  any others we
>     may be
>     > > able to arm twist?
>     > >
>     >
>     > How about http://www.gisdevelopment.net/?
>
>     Yep.  Lets get a release together we can have out tonight.
>
>     Straw man:
>     ---
>     The Aust-NZ chapter of OSGeo is pleased to announce we have been
>     selected to host the FOSS4G 2009 international conference.  The
>     conference is planned for Sydney in November 2009, and is expected to
>     attract the leading players in the open source geospatial community.
>
>     Holding this conference in the Asia-Pacific region will bring enormous
>     benefit to the region and will provide those in the wider geospatial
>     community an opportunity to discover the cutting edge of spatial
>     software development through to the state of the art in enterprise
>     deployment.
>     ----
>     Please hack it.
>
>     Tim
>
>     > > Tim
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >> shoaib
>     > >> On Feb 11, 2008 5:02 PM, Cameron Shorter
>     <cshorter at lisasoft.com <mailto:cshorter at lisasoft.com>>
>     > >> wrote:
>     > >>         FrankW tells me that Sydney was officially accepted
>     the 2009
>     > >>         conference
>     > >>         city by the OSGeo board at their last meeting.
>     > >>
>     > >>         So I suggest we start on our next steps. Who wants to
>     do what?
>     > >>
>     > >>         * Write Press Release for FOSS4G
>     > >>          - Publish through OSGeo
>     > >>          - Publish through Position Magazine. Wendy Chapman has
>     > >>         already
>     > >>         volunteered to give us free advertising in return for
>     a free
>     > >>         pass at the
>     > >>         conference.
>     > >>          - Publish through Sydney Linux Users Group
>     > >>         * Advertise for Professional Conference Organisor (PCO)
>     > >>          - I have documents to fill in from SCVB I can
>     forward through
>     > >>         to someone.
>     > >>         * Set up Governance body as per:
>     > >>         http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G_2008_Governance
>     > >>         * Set up email list
>     > >>         * What else?
>     > >>
>     > >>         --
>     > >>         Cameron Shorter
>     > >>         Geospatial Systems Architect
>     > >>         Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
>     > >>         Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
>     > >>
>     > >>         Think Globally, Fix Locally
>     > >>         Commercial Support for Geospatial Open Source Solutions
>     > >>         http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/SupportedProducts.html
>     > >>
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>     > >>
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Cameron Shorter
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