[Viscom-dev] PR for Canadian Geodata?

[Michael P. Gerlek]

dear jo-

The process is documented reasonably well:
  http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Press_Release_Process

I could handle #2 for you, and #3 is just a matter of spending some time
with the several email/web submission contacts listed on that page.

-mpg

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: viscom-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> [mailto:viscom-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jo Walsh
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 10:28 AM
> To: viscom-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [Viscom-dev] PR for Canadian Geodata?
> 
> dear VisCom,
> 
> LinkedIn.com keeps trying to suggest i apply for Marketing jobs.
> Perhaps i am missing a vocation! So i have resubscribed to the VisCom
> mailing list after long absence. Hello again.
> 
> Topmost in mind right now, is how great it would be to send a press
> release about the wonderful things being done with open access 
> Canadian geodata. The glossy Integration Showcase. The precedent 
> for open civic information that Canada is helping set for the world.
> I imagine it would go something like this:
> 
> =head= Eye-catching Title 
> 
> =p1= Concise explanation, brief quote from someone at GeoConnexions
> 
> =p2-p4= Context of FOSS4G, quote from someone at OSGeo, more details 
> 
> =p5= Links to shiny demo, PR Contact details 
> 			    -30-
> 
> What i'd need to make this happen:
> 1/ Someone at GeoConnexions prepared to offer a nice quote
> 2/ Help with copyediting from someone who knows the form 
> 3/ A mechanism for getting the PR out into some press networks
> (I have an old ORA list of tech-interest journo contacts in Europe, 
> though some of them may be out of date now...)
> 
> What are the FOSS4G2007 organisers planning, if anything, in the way
> of press release promotion, and how would this fit with their
> schedule? This would be my main concern, about spam/overlap.
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Canadian_Geodata
> 
> Feedback appreciated,
> 
> 
> jo
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