[TCMUG] [FOSS4GNA 2013 LOC] Re: MN GIS/LIS

Wed Sep 19 13:56:24 PDT 2012

I'm not going to require that they all follow a style.  I'm more inclined to use whatever is volunteered as a matter of fact.

On the other hand, a unified look might be better as a sales point.

Bobb

From: Brian Fischer [mailto:bfischer at houstoneng.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 3:18 PM
To: Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul); foss4gna_2013_loc at googlegroups.com; tcmug
Subject: RE: [FOSS4GNA 2013 LOC] Re: MN GIS/LIS

It might be a good idea to give us a couple sample slides so we can follow your style and make it less work for you to integrate others slides into your master.  Just a thought.

Brian Fischer, CFM
Principal | GIS Project Manager
Houston Engineering, Inc.
O 763.493.4522 | D 763.493.6664 | M 763.229.2734

From: tcmug-bounces at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:tcmug-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> [mailto:tcmug-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]<mailto:[mailto:tcmug-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]> On Behalf Of Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 11:18 AM
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Subject: Re: [TCMUG] [FOSS4GNA 2013 LOC] Re: MN GIS/LIS

All,

I can volunteer for putting something together to loop on the screen.

Just send your Slides to me.

I think they should include at a minimum, who did it (contact), why they did it (project name).  They can be as a screen shot on a single slide, of if you want to put the description and contact info on a separate lead-in slide, that would work too.  Don't make the descriptions too wordy though, I plan on having the slides cycle fairly quickly.

I've got some stuff in the works for some T-Shirts to be made, might be able to find some money for these on my own.  I know I can go down to runs as short as 50 shirts (around $200), trying to find out if I can go to smaller runs.   I'm fairly sure we're going to be doing GeoMoose shirts, and maybe SharedGeo.  One other thought might be to do some sort of local(ized) OSGeo shirt as well.  These will be custom screened if a deal can be made. I have some samples from them already.  Are there possibly additional sponsors for these??

About those LiveDVDs, Jim K. found a local outfit that can do them for $1.25 each for 200 ($1.35 each for 100).  I believe there is a reimbursement setup through OSGEO marketing for these, but I'm not sure I have contacted the right person yet on this.  Either way, it's looking like $250+ $50(setup) = $300 (we'll need to set up the ISO ourselves, so a little money for that is needed, unless there is a volunteer??.)

Bobb

From: foss4gna_2013_loc at googlegroups.com<mailto:foss4gna_2013_loc at googlegroups.com> [mailto:foss4gna_2013_loc at googlegroups.com]<mailto:[mailto:foss4gna_2013_loc at googlegroups.com]> On Behalf Of David William Bitner
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 11:03 AM
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Subject: [FOSS4GNA 2013 LOC] Re: MN GIS/LIS

Oops, just noticed I sent to the old umn address for TCMUG.

Another idea I just had -- it might be cool to collect screenshots of apps that folks here have built using FOSS tools and build a slide deck to put on a loop on the monitor when not being used to demo things. Would anyone volunteer to collect and put together something like that?
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:28 AM, David William Bitner <bitner at gyttja.org<mailto:bitner at gyttja.org>> wrote:
Hey all,

We are planning on having a booth at GIS/LIS for the OSGeo Twin Cities Chapter and FOSS4GNA 2013. We are paying for this booth with support from a handful of sponsors (still being fully worked out, let me know if you are interested). I have the following goals for this booth:

*  Increase the profile of OSGeo Twin Cities Chapter and FOSS Geospatial products
*  Advertise the FOSS4GNA 2013 Conference
*  Normalize FOSS as a commercially supportable product

I will be able to bring a 46" monitor on a stand with a laptop that we can use for any demonstrations. Bob B is looking into getting OSGeo live DVDs to pass out as well as looking at getting OSGeo promotional signage and materials. At a minimum I'll be printing a sign with OSGeo and FOSS4GNA (hopefully we can have something by then) logos on our plotter along with logos from the folks who are sponsoring the booth and might consider something more like a banner if we get enough sponsorship to cover it.

Places that we could use some help:

  *   Manning the booth (particularly if you have things you can demo on the screen)
  *   Providing any materials on Open Source services you/your company offer
  *   Provide any materials on Open Source products you/your company support
  *   People like give-aways, if you have any promotional materials you'd like us to pass out (moose antlers anyone?) let us know
For those that are having their own booths, I hope we can cross-advertise as much as possible. If anyone has any other ideas for this booth or any questions/comments on the above, please reply to this message keeping both the TCMUG and LOC lists on the reply.

Cheers!

David

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