[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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