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| + | 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) | First General Announcement: Registration & call for workshops papers (Gavin-04/04/08) | ||
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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)
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 (requested)
- http://www.gsdi.org/events/upcnf.asp (requested)
- 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
- http://www.gim-international.com/
- More Please...
We have a list of websites to approach for marketing through banners and logos supplied by Carrin (e-mail offline will add this later..)