Marketing Artefacts

OSGeo helps market GeoSpatial Open Source software through numerous marketing channels - through the website, conferences, workshops, and packaging into various distributions. This page defines the Marketing Artefacts required to make effective use of these marketing channels. It provides links to templates and howtos which simplify the creation of the artefacts and ensures that we develop consistent, quality material.

This page is referenced from the OSGeo Incubation Checklist and provides guidance to incubating projects developing OSGeo marketing material.

= OSGeo Live =
 * Description
 * A self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Xubuntu, that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It is handed out at conferences around the world.
 * Details at http://live.osgeo.org


 * OSGeo Incubation Discussion
 * Currently all OSGeo client and server applications which are available on linux are packaged on the OSGeo Live DVD. (Many non-OSGeo GeoSpatial Open Source applications are also included). For other OSGeo projects (like libraries) only project overviews are desired to be included.


 * Responsibility
 * Projects teams responsible for packaging their software in accordance with http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project
 * OSGeo Live Project team to create DVD

= DebianGIS / UbuntuGIS =
 * Description
 * .deb files which are included into DebianGIS and UbuntuGIS then become easily downloadable through the quality Debian and Ubuntu linux distributions, which is accessibly to millions of users worldwide. It also makes the application easy to incorporate into OSGeo-Live which is based upon Ubuntu.
 * There is a non trivial amount of work involved in packaging for these distributions and consequently not all Graduated OSGeo projects have packaged their applications for these distributions.
 * Projects are advised to package for Debian and the packages will then be included into Ubuntu by the Ubuntu build process.


 * Further Information:
 * TBD


 * OSGeo Incubation Discussion
 * Not required for OSGeo Incubation

= osgeo4w for Windows = TBD


 * OSGeo Incubation Discussion
 * Not required for OSGeo Incubation

= GeoSpatial Enterprise Linux for RPMs = TBD


 * OSGeo Incubation Discussion
 * Not required for OSGeo Incubation

= Application Overview =
 * Description
 * A one page marketing page targeted at a someone considering using GeoSpatial Open Source, who may be a GeoSpatial User, a Technical person without much geospatial expertise, or manager with limited GeoSpatial or technical experience. Overview development and publishing is coordinated as part of the OSGeo-Live project.
 * From 2010, these pages started being translated into multiple languages.
 * In future, these pages are intended to be published in other formats, like one page PDF files for handing out at conferences.
 * Published Overviews: http://live.osgeo.org/overview/overview.html
 * How to create an Overview: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Application_Overview


 * OSGeo Incubation Discussion
 * Currently all OSGeo applications have written an Application Overview.
 * It is desired to have all OSGeo projects develop an Application Overview.


 * Responsibility
 * Project's team

= Application Quick Start =
 * Description
 * Contains detailed steps showing a new user how run one core use case for the application.
 * As of 2010, the Application Quick Starts have been tailored to the OSGeo-Live project, however there is a long term goal to make them generic enough for use in other distributions as well.
 * Examples are linked from http://live.osgeo.org/quickstart/quickstart.html
 * How to write an Application Quick Start is defined here: Live_GIS_Add_Project


 * OSGeo Incubation Discussion
 * It is desired that all OSGeo projects with executable applications have Quick Starts in place by FOSS4G 2011


 * Responsibility
 * Project's team

= OSGeo-Live Lightening Presentation =
 * Description:
 * This presentation provides a lightening overview of all applications on the OSGeo Live DVD/Virtual Machine, with one slide/project. It should take under 30 minutes, to fit into most conference programs. With over 40 projects and a few overview slides, each slide is limited to ~ 20 to 30 seconds.
 * Presentation is currently stored here: https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/promo/en/presentations/OSGeoLive4_0Taster/


 * Requirements from each project:
 * One slide which contains:
 * Image as per
 * Text in notes providing a 20 sec script for the presenter to read. A reference to the one page project overview, to provide the presenter with background information. This should be derived from the


 * Responsibility
 * OSGeo Live team to compile the presentation based upon the Project Overview.
 * Project team to review slides and text for accuracy.


 * OSGeo Incubation Discussion
 * Not required for incubation.

= Project Specific Presentation =
 * Description
 * Up to 20 min presentation for each specific project.
 * Guidelines for presentation structure have not been provided, as there is not a strong requirement for consistency between presentations (yet).


 * Responsibility
 * Project's team


 * OSGeo Incubation Discussion
 * Not required for OSGeo Incubation

= OGC Standard Overview =
 * Description
 * A one page overview of key OGC standards
 * Published here: http://live.osgeo.org/standards/standards.html
 * Source files stored here: https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/en/standards/


 * Responsibility
 * OGC to produce text
 * OSGeo Live team to incorporate into OSGeo-Live

= Logo =
 * Description
 * A logo for the application, which is used by various marketing artefacts - like the Project Overview, Quickstart, Presentations, Content Diagrams, etc
 * How to create a logo is explained in: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Application_Overview


 * OSGeo Incubation Discussion
 * It is desired that all OSGeo projects have stored logo(s) in a common directory as described above.


 * Responsibility
 * Project's team

= Graphical Image =
 * Description
 * A representational image of the project, which is usually a screen snapshot.
 * To be used in Project Overview, Presentations, etc.
 * Images are to be stored here: https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/images/screenshots/1024x768
 * How to create an image is explained here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Application_Overview


 * OSGeo Incubation Discussion
 * It is desired to have all OSGeo projects create a Graphical Image


 * Responsibility
 * Project's team

= Future Marketing Artefacts = As our projects mature, we expect to expand our list of desired marketing artefacts. Listed below are likely artefacts to be considered.

Case Studies
(Possible future desired marketing artefact)


 * Description
 * Systems architects and project directors reduce project risk by reviewing previous implementations of technologies they are considering. Hence, case studies which describe how Open Source Geospatial has been used in previous project are very valuable. Case Studies from risk adverse organisations (like government) are usually more valuable than those from R&D organisations (like University projects).
 * Projects should link to case studies. SeeCase Studies and the OSGeo Journal for ideas.

Training
(Possible future desired marketing artefact)


 * Description
 * Availability of training material for applications.
 * Training requirements and templates still to be defined.

Technology Comparisons
(Possible future desired marketing artefact)


 * Description
 * Comparisons between similar projects ease the technology selection process for new users wishing to determine which technology is right for them. These technology comparison summaries provide tables list available features and key selection criteria against applications.
 * Comparison projects:
 * Desktop Comparison
 * Web Mapping Comparison
 * Web Service Comparison
 * See the WMS Shootout. WFS/WCS comparison is still wishware.
 * Database Comparison (hopefully will start to be covered at FOSS4G 2010)
 * Web Processing Service Comparison (still wishware)
 * Mobile Application Comparison (hopefully introduced through a talk at foss4g2010)