[TOSprint] Sponsoring

[Arnulf Christl]

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Thanks Helmut, Stephan,
maybe we get a chance to chat at FOSS4G. I am still positive on
supporting the sprint, lets sort out the details in person.

Cheers,
Arnulf

On 09/12/2013 03:29 PM, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> On 08/31/2013 10:10 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:
>>> Folks, unfortunately I am not sure whether I can attend myself
>>> due to conflicting event timing but I'd be interested in
>>> sponsoring this event anyway given it will give me some media
>>> presence.
>>> 
>>> In order to decide I'd like to know what media presence you
>>> are planning. Is it just the OSGeo Wiki page or are you going
>>> to have a news item or press release from OSGeo, links from
>>> blogs, etc. Maybe you can elaborate a bit?
>>> 
>>> Stephan, I added the [[Category:Code Sprints]] to the Vienna
>>> 2014 page.
>>> 
>>> Thanks, Arnulf
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Arnulf,
>> 
>> good point, to be honest I'm not the most experienced media
>> person but I guess I should be able to write a summary after the
>> event for a press release from OSGeo mentioning sponsors. What
>> are the requirements, processes, etc. for an OSGeo press release?
>> I guess I could need some help or guidance from somebody who has
>> done it before though.
>> 
>> I definitely plan to write some posts on my personal blog (not
>> very high traffic from either side *sigh*) which can be of course
>> re-used.
>> 
>> Finally, twitter comes to my mind. I could provide tweets
>> mentioning sponsors maybe for the OSGeo account. Again my
>> question about processes, etc?
>> 
>> I'll make sure to add the conclusion of this discussion to the
>> wiki page.
> 
> this year I had a chance to manage that Austrian radio broadcast
> (ORF Ö1) reports from EGU 2013-Open Source (GIS) sessions:
> 
> radio report, interview, web article (with link to OSGeo)
> 
> Nicht umsonst: Open Source in der Forschung 
> http://science.orf.at/stories/1716081/
> 
> maybe this could be a starting point for a follow up media work
> regarding OSGeo Vienna Code Sprint 2014.
> 
> Helmut
> 


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Arnulf Christl
http://metaspatial.net
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