FOSS4G2008 Communication

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Marketing Events
The following is a list of events that should trigger Announcements, please update if there are important once left in the list or if you feel more can be done. The text of announcements is stored on the FOSS4G2008_Announcements page:


 * First General Announcement: Registration & call for workshops papers (Gavin-04/04/08)
 * 1 week reminder for deadline of submission of workshops and labs of 30 April (Daina 23/04/08 -> Gavin 9/5)
 * 1 Week reminder of dealine for submission of abstracts 5 May (Daina 05/05/08)
 * First Call for posters submission (Inge ../../..)
 * 1 week reminder of close of poster submission 23/06/08
 * Draft Conference Programe (compiled from workshops and labs and abstracts accepted by 17/06/08)
 * One month warning of close of Early Bird Registration on June 15 (Daina 15/05/08)
 * Second draft of Conference programme (after all notifications.. close to final one)
 * 1 week warning of close of close of Early Bird Registration on June 15 (Daina 08/05/08)
 * 2 months to go: Call for Conference Registration (29/07/08)
 * 1 month to go: Call for Conference Registration (28/08/08)

E-Mail Marketing

 * GISSA Chair and Regional Secretaries mail to all GISSA lists
 * foss4g-newsletter (Gavin or Paul Scott)
 * OSGeo
 * africa (Gavin direct)
 * discuss (Gavin direct)
 * announce (news_item at osgeo dot org)
 * conference_dev (Gavin direct)
 * edu_discuss (Gavin direct)
 * conference-workshops (Gavin direct)
 * foss4g2008loc (Gavin direct)
 * foss4g2009 (Gavin direct)
 * EIS-Africa (request Sonja and Sives)
 * AGIRN (request Craig Schwabe)
 * GLCN-L (Gavin direct)
 * geonetwork-users (Gavin direct)
 * sensorweb CSIR list (Gavin direct)
 * sdi-africa (Gavin direct)
 * postgis-users, Paul Ramsey
 * gmt, Paul Ramsey
 * freegis-list (Gavin direct)
 * local linux user groups
 * local java user groups
 * 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 / Tim Sutton
 * 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
 * deegree, lan/lon
 * 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
Advertisement: Position IT (GISSA media partner) Mar/Apr Issue Advertisement: EIS-Africa Editorial: at least one arcticle in every issue of PositionIT

Placement of Registration form in national journals/magazine (investigating costs for SA)

Postal mailing in SA, Africa & Other states ... past 2007 attendees? (Budget-checking, contributions from LOC on postal address mailing list). (Postal mail wasn't that effective in 2007 - Gavin)

Web Marketing
Placing banner ads one some of the high-traffic open source project sites is a huge source of referrals. The 2007 conference web site received the majority of its referrals from open source web site announcements, with GRASS as the top site.

The following sites need to be approached to do banner placement:
 * GRASS (Markus Neteler)
 * PostGIS (Paul Ramsey)
 * Mapserver (Steve Lime). Jeff McKenna placed banner on MapServer home page on 9 April.
 * MapWindow (Dan Ames) -
 * [FOSSGIS] (Arnulf Christl)
 * WhereGroup.com (Arnulf Christl)
 * Mapbender (Arnulf Christl)
 * GIS Jobs Clearinghouse (Steve Lime)
 * GeoNetwork opensource (Jeroen Ticheler)
 * http://www.northafrica.de/gis.htm
 * http://www.sahims.net/gis/Gis%20Input/GIS_library_Regional.asp
 * http://www.gisdevelopment.net/news/viewn.asp?id=GIS:N_ncwmpjaltd

The following sites have committed to doing banner placement:
 * http://www.eis-africa.org/EIS-Africa/(Sives Govender)
 * http://www.agirn.org/agirn/eis_africa.php ((Craig Schwabe)have agreed to market the conference awaiting materail from us -contact Carrin)

And see also Public Relations

We have requested the graphics designer who designed the FOSS4G2008 logo to assist with ideas for designs of the logos and banners to place on websites of varios open source organisations, GISSA partners and other regional websites. We had a few ideas centered on the main logo. Those with great graphics skills who want to be creative please help and add to the list.

The FOSS4G2008 logo

Resized image of Position IT advert



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Blogosphere
Please write about FOSS4G2008 in your blog. List any blogs or bloggers that are or should be discussing FOSS4G here:
 * Gabor Remetey-Fülöpp's blog (in Hungarian) http://hunagi8.blogspot.com/2008/05/szabad-s-nylt-forrskd-szoftverek.html
 * Adena Schutzberg at DirectionsMag (http://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/4300-FOSS4G2008-Cape-Town,-South-Africa-Call-for-Presentation-Extended.html)