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 OSGeo Announce List

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

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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):

WARNING!! Daina, you are editing the Wiki template, not a copy in FOSS4G2008... http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Template:Industry_Event_Calendars <- wrong place

Via Web:

• http://events.geocomm.com/events/ (Done - Daina)
• http://gcmd.nasa.gov/ConferenceCalendar/calendar.html (Done- Gavin)
• http://gita.org/events/events.asp (request submitted, 090508 Daina)
• http://news.eoportal.org/cgi-bin/eoportal_header.pl?dw=psr&site=software&words=type (-> Share your news with the EO community)
• http://slashgeo.org/submit.pl
• http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/submitnews.html (not free any more, convince editor@geocomm.com)
• http://www.allconferences.com/ (request submitted, 200508 Daina)
• http://www.directionsmag.com/events/ (done)
• http://www.eogeo.org/events (not functional)
• http://www.eoportal.org
• http://www.freegis.org (no listing possible)
• http://www.geoconnexion.com/events.php (done)
• http://www.GeoPlace.com (no listing possible)
• http://www.gim-international.com/
• http://www.giscafe.com/submit_material/submit_options.php#Press (done)
• http://www.gisdevelopment.net/events/index.asp (news@gisdevelopment.net)
• http://www.gismonitor.com/news/submit_news.php (matteo@gismonitor.com)
• http://www.gis-news.de/ (franz-josef.behr@gismngt.de)
• http://www.gsdi.org/events/upcnf.asp (done)
• http://www.opengeospatial.org/event (done)
• http://www.urisa.org/node/148 (request submitted to info@urisa.org, 210508 Ronny)
• http://www.isprs.org/calendar.html (request submitted to profchen@ms13.hinet.net, 210508 Ronny)
• http://www.grss-ieee.org/menu.taf?menu=conferences&detail=calendar (done)
• http://www.earthobservations.org/index.html(request submitted to secretariat@geosec.org, 210508 Ronny)
• http://www.asprs.org/meetings/calendar.html (done)
• http://www.computer.org/portal/site/ieeecs/menuitem.c5efb9b8ade9096b8a9ca0108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=ieeecs_level1&path=ieeecs/conferences&file=calendar.xml&xsl=generic.xsl&
• http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/SAP/sched/index.html
• http://www.icaci.org/
• http://www.agirn.org/ (done)
• http://www.eis-africa.org (done)
• http://punkish.eidesis.org/cal/conferences.ics
• http://www.fig.net/events/events.htm
• http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/oaakuqgoos9fnenq6dahpi4qo8%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
• http://www.veryspatial.com/calendar/publish.php/?user=public
• http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/ak1i8t86206kbg5njvv91ra43o%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
• http://www.slashgeo.org/

Via Email:

• info@harzer.de (www.geobranchen.de)
• admin@cartographyonline.com
• GRASS web Event Calendar (Markus Neteler)
• Mapserver web Event Calendar (Steve Lime)
• mfeilner@linuxnewmedia.de
• redazionenews@mondogis.net
• jsanz_listas@geomaticblog.net
• jugsa@yahoogroups.com
• editor@gislounge.com (http://gislounge.com) (done-Carrin)

Public Relations list of media that can be contacted through Marketing

(please sync with above list)

• American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
• Applied GIS
• Association of American Geographers
• British Cartographic Society
• Decisions Support, Inc.
• Directions Magazine http://www.directionsmag.com/press.releases/?duty=Contribute
• Earth Interactions - University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Federal Geographic Data Committee
• Geo Informacion
• GEO:connexion Limited
• GeoInformatica Editorial Office
• GeoInformatics
• geoinformatik_online
• Geospatial Solutions - Questex Media Group, Inc.
• GEOWorld
• Gim Reed Business Information-Geo
• Gim Reed Business – Geo Bv
• GIS Development
• GIS Monitor
• GIS User
• GITC America Inc.
• GPS World
• International Journal of Geographical Information Science
• Journal of Geographical Systems
• Journal of Spatial Science Editorial Board
• Professional Surveyor
• Qlinks Media Group
• Surveys in Geophysics - Springer DordrechGeosciences
• The Royal Canadian Geographical Society / Canadian Geographic
• URISA
• GNU/Linux Magazine
• EurActiv.com
• Unix Review
• Linux Magazine NL
• Reuters
• LinuxBizWorld / SKOSI.org / OSS.cz
• Linux User & Developer Magazine
• Le Soir
• Ovum
• Database Magazine
• freshmeat.net
• SL Business Magazine
• O'Reilly Media
• Progilibre
• NewsForge
• The Podcast Network
• O'Reilly Media
• IT Professional
• SlashGIS
• SIG la lettre
• SAPA (South African Press Association newswire) http://www.link2media.co.za/info.htm