FOSS4G2007 Communication

FOSS4G2007

Marketing Notes

E-Mail Marketing

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
• End of Early Bird Registration

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

• postgis-users, Paul Ramsey
• geotools-devel, Jody Garnett
• gt2-users-list, Jody Garnett
• udig-devel, Jody Garnett
• geoserver-devel, Jody Garnett
• mapserver-users, Steve Lime
• freegis, Paul Ramsey
• mapguide-users, Bob Bray
• qgis-user, Gary Sherman
• grass-dev and grassuser, Markus Neteler
• More Please...

Industry Event Calendars

We have been adding ourselves to industry event calendars wherever possible. So far, we are on:

• http://www.eoportal.org
• http://www.opengeospatial.org/event
• http://www.gsdi.org/events/upcnf.asp
• http://gcmd.nasa.gov/ConferenceCalendar/calendar.html
• http://www.gisdevelopment.net/events/index.asp
• http://www.eogeo.org/events
• http://www.allconferences.com/ (login as osgeo password incubate)
• 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
• More Please...