FOSS4G2008 Communication

The standard text has been sent to the list at Public Relations (version of 15:02, 18 April 2008)

Marketing Events
The following is a list of Announcements made and planned, please update if there are important once left in the list or if you feel more can be done:

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)

1 Week reminder of dealine for submission of abstracts 5 May (Daina 05/04/08)

First Call for posters submission (Inge../../..)

Draft Conference Programe (compiled from workshops and labs and abstracts accepted by 14/05/08)

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
Mail to all GISSA maling lists (Regional Secretaries)
 * Mail to OSGeo Announce List

Paper Marketing
Advertisement: Position IT (GISSA media partner) Mar/Apr Issue

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)

Web Marketing
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 partenres and other regional websites. We had a few ideas centered on the main logo those with great graphics skills and want to be creative please help and add to the list.

The FOSS4G2008 logo

Resized image of Position IT advert



Industry Event Calendars
We should be on industry event calendars wherever possible. Please work through list and indicate once you have (requested) addition and once it has been (done):


 * http://www.eoportal.org
 * http://www.opengeospatial.org/event (done)
 * http://www.gsdi.org/events/upcnf.asp (requested)
 * http://gcmd.nasa.gov/ConferenceCalendar/calendar.html
 * http://www.gisdevelopment.net/events/index.asp (news@gisdevelopment.net)
 * http://slashgeo.org/submit.pl
 * http://www.eogeo.org/events
 * http://www.allconferences.com/ (done)
 * Mapserver web Event Calendar (Steve Lime)
 * GRASS web Event Calendar (Markus Neteler)
 * http://www.directionsmag.com/events/
 * http://www.GeoPlace.com
 * http://gita.org/events/events.asp
 * http://www.urisa.org/node/148
 * http://events.geocomm.com/events/
 * http://www.giscafe.com/submit_material/submit_options.php#Press
 * http://www.gim-international.com/
 * http://www.freegis.org
 * http://news.eoportal.org/cgi-bin/eoportal_header.pl?dw=psr&site=software&words=type (-> Share your news with the EO community)
 * http://www.gismonitor.com/news/submit_news.php (matteo@gismonitor.com)
 * http://www.gis-news.de/ (franz-josef.behr@gismngt.de)
 * http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/submitnews.html (not free any more, convince editor@geocomm.com)
 * admin@cartographyonline.com
 * redazionenews@mondogis.net
 * mfeilner@linuxnewmedia.de
 * info@harzer.de (www.geobranchen.de)
 * More Please... (would this better go into a Template for later re-use?)

We have a list of websites to approach for marketing through banners and logos supplied by Carrin (added below) And see also Public Relations
 * http://www.eis-africa.org/EIS-Africa/
 * http://www.agirn.org/agirn/eis_africa.php (have agreed to market the conference awaiting materail from us -contact Carrin)
 * 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