FOSS4G2007 Communication

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Marketing Events

The text of announcements is stored on the FOSS4G2007 Announcements page. The following events should trigger a wave of e-mail marketing to the four corners of the open source world:

~~Call for Workshops~~
~~Call for Presentations~~
~~Opening of Registration~~
~~One week warning for Close of Presentations~~
~~Community Program Review~~
One week warning for Close of Early Bird
One month warning for Conference

E-Mail Marketing

Here is a list of lists and posters we should use to propagate this message:

postgis-users, Paul Ramsey
gmt, Paul Ramsey
freegis, Paul Ramsey
geotools-devel, Jody Garnett
gt2-users-list, Jody Garnett
udig-devel, Jody Garnett
geoserver-devel, Jody Garnett
mapserver-users, Steve Lime
mapguide-users, Bob Bray
qgis-user, Gary Sherman
grass-dev and grassuser, Markus Neteler
osgeo announce, Frank Warmerdam
gdal-dev, Frank Warmerdam
worldwind, Chad Zimmerman
openlayers, Chris Schmidt
mapbender, Arnulf Christl
ossim, Mark Lucus
jump (jump-users and openjump lists), Landon Blake
gvsig, trying gvsig at gva.es to start
opengis/geosptatial, Sam Bacharach
sharpmap?
mapnik, Artem Pavlenko
geowankers, Allan Doyle
kamap-users, -dev, Paul Spencer
mapbuilder-users, -dev, Cameron Shorter
eogeo, Allan Doyle
CEOS WGISS lists, Allan Doyle
NASA ESIP lists, Perry Nacionales
MapStorer lists, Sebastian Schmitz
Chameleon lists, Paul Spencer
Geonetwork lists, Jeroen Ticheler
osgeo discuss, Tyler Mitchell
mapserver-west, Tyler Mitchell
MapWindow announce list, Dan Ames
More Please...

Paper Marketing

We will be doing one mail-out coinciding with the opening of registration. This mail out will go to:

Some OSGIS 2005 attendees
- Students and folks we know will hear about the conference anyways need to be stripped from the list
Some FOSS4G 2006 attendees
- Students and folks we know will hear about the conference anyways need to be stripped from the list
GIS offices and companies in the Pacific Northwest
- Manually generated list
Some GeoWorld subscribers (?)
- Need to choose which states to send to. Entire list is too big.
Some Geospatial Solutions subscribers (?)
- Need to choose which states to send to. Entire list is too big.

Web Marketing

Placing banner ads one some of the high-traffic open source project sites is a huge source of referrals. The conference web site already receives the majority of its referrals from open source web site announcements, with GRASS as the top site so far.

Banner placement should probably proceed in earnest after the opening of registration.

The following sites have committed to doing banner placement:

GRASS (Markus Neteler)
PostGIS (Paul Ramsey) - Banner added 14 Feb 2007
Mapserver (Steve Lime)
MapWindow (Dan Ames) - Banner added to wwww.MapWindow.org main page 21 Feb 2007
[FOSSGIS] (Arnulf Christl) - Banner added to main page 2/23.
WhereGroup.com (Arnulf Christl) - Banner added, link to a couple of FOSS4G2007 pages 2/23.
Mapbender (Arnulf Christl) - Banner added to main page 2/24.
GIS Jobs Clearinghouse (Steve Lime) - Banner added 2/22.
GeoNetwork opensource (Jeroen Ticheler) - Banner added to http://geonetwork-opensource.org on 27 Feb 2007