[Qgis-psc] project feedback to OSGeo

[Anita Graser]

Thanks Tim!

On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 7:25 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at qgis.org> wrote:
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> Another useful thing they could do is develop a standard promotional pack
> e.g. a double sided brochure from each OSGEO project and copies of the
> OSGEO Live CD that can be used by local chapters and OSGEO representatives
> when they man booths and stalls. They could fund or help each country
> chapter to create a kit that can be used to take to events to help OSGEO
> and its constituent projects. At the moment anyone wanting to represent
> OSGEO is left very much up to their own devices and even having all of
> these resources collated in the wiki would be useful so you can get them in
> one place.
>

​Good point! I agree that the whole issue and particularly the brochures
could use quite some love. Unfortunately, without an active marketing team,
that probably won't happen anytime soon.
I'm also more and more uncertain how worthwhile it is to produce print
brochures. After all, anyone can just check the project website as easily.
In my experience, brochures are collected, never read, and finally thrown
away most of the time.

Live CDs or USB sticks have been floating around at quite a few events now.
I'm not sure if it makes financial sense to ship them around the world or
if they should be created locally. That would certainly be worth a
discussion on the OSGeo lists.

Also the OSGEO web site looks and is really dated and same for the
> wiki….can’t they modernise it a bit (using a professional designer)? - it
> doesn’t look like the web site of a professional organisation. I would at
> least like to land on the front page as someone uninformed about OSGEO and
> see visually what this OSGEO thing is and see a gallery / slider / whatever
> of the outputs produced by their participating projects.
>

​The website is actually on the todo list. I think the activities are led
by Ian Edwards. For details see
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/webcom/2016-February/002372.html

Best wishes,
Anita


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> Regards
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> Tim
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> On 13 Feb 2016, at 17:11, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
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> Il 13/02/2016 14:02, Anita Graser ha scritto:
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> Since I don't know enough about which cleanups are necessary and what's
> needed to keep OSGeo4W up to date, I'd ask you to get involved too.
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> I leave this to Juergen, but if I can be useful do not hesitate asking.
> All the best.
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