Difference between revisions of "Promotion and Visibility Committee"

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This page is designed to tell you everything you need to know about VisCom and what we do.

Our Mission

The mission of the Promotion and Visibility Committee ("VisCom") is to spread word and build a strong recognition of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, foundation projects, and the use of open source in geospatial applications in general. We do this by:

participating at events, tradeshows, and conferences
creation and use of OSGeo marketing materials (brochures, logos, etc)
aiding in the creation and dissemination of case studies, white papers, etc
outreach to other organizations, companies, group, media, etc

Committee Logistics

The official committee web site is here. (This wiki is more likely to be current and accurate, however.)

The VisCom project committee consists of:

Got an idea? Interested in joining? Just let us know!

We generally meet on Thursdays at 15:00 UTC (8am PST), via conference call and on the #osgeo IRC channel. Our meetings page: VisCom_Meetings

Our mailing list: dev@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org (subscribe).

Press Releases

Got some news worthy of an OSGeo press release? Let us know! (our Press Release Process)

Past press releases:

6 March 2006 - Press Release

Event Coordination

(tbd)

Formats, Copyright, License of Documents

The preferred format would probably be HTML, making it easy to create links and make it searchable using the OSGeo (CN) infrastructure. (Initial discussion and collaborative editing can be done in the Wiki). Please refrain from creating PPTs, PDFs or other closed formats while OpenDocument format will be appropriate for slides. Presentations would preferably be licensed as GNU FDL, CC (or appropriate alternative) to ensure that they are freely available (please use the discussion page registered at the top of this page).

Sticker, Caps, Promotion Stuff

We will want to think up some stuff to give away. This could be mugs, caps, t-shirts, etc. Probably will have to wait until the logo is done. Some slogan (slogans?) (all by Jody Garnett):

Built on OSGeo
OSGeo - Think way outside the box
OSGeo: It's a Spheroid get over it
OSGeo.org : Spatialize your mind (Alain Grignon)
see also: Motto discussion for many more of these

Moved to Current events

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-''('''NOTE:''' The following is all for discussion purposes, and not firmly established yet)''
+''This page is designed to tell you everything you need to know about VisCom and what we do.''
-The Promotion Committee will help produce input to be published by the [[Web Site Committee Motion|Web Site Committee]]. Publishing, controlling and adoption as stable documents is probably done by the latter.
+== Our Mission ==
-To spread word and build a strong recognition of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, foundation projects and the use of open source in geospatial applications in general every major event should be covered professionally. Smaller events and local conventions in many cases already get covered by associated members (friends of the foundation).
+The mission of the Promotion and Visibility Committee ("VisCom") is to spread word and build a strong recognition of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, foundation projects, and the use of open source in geospatial applications in general.  We do this by:
+* participating at events, tradeshows, and conferences
+* creation and use of OSGeo marketing materials (brochures, logos, etc)
+* aiding in the creation and dissemination of case studies, white papers, etc
+* outreach to other organizations, companies, group, media, etc
-== Committee Website ==
-The official committee web site is https://visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org/. For the time being it seems as if this Wiki is more flexible. Once stable documents are available they will move to the official committee web site.
+== Committee Logistics ==
-== Committee Meetings ==
+The official committee web site is [https://visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org here].  (This wiki is more likely to be current and accurate, however.)
-* [[First_VisCom_Meeting]] (was March 23rd, 2006)
+The VisCom project committee consists of:
-* [[Second_VisCom_Meeting]] (was April 27th, 2006)
-* [[Third_VisCom_Meeting]] (was May 11th, 2006)
-* [[Fourth_VisCom_Meeting]] (was May 18th, 2006)
-* [[Fifth_VisCom_Meeting]] (was May 25th, 2006)
-* [[Sixth_VisCom_Meeting]] (was June 8th, 2006)
-* [[Seventh_VisCom_Meeting]] (was June 22/23, but didn't really happen)
-* [[Eighth_VisCom_Meeting]] (was July 13th, 2006)
-* [[Ninth_VisCom_Meeting]] (will be July 20th, 2006)
-== Tasks ==
-Several levels of activity should be addressed to support advertising the OSGeo Foundation depending on the character of the event to take place.
-* Web site linking [[Website Committee]]
-* Create and provide paperwork (ads, flyers, posters, information brochures)
-* Giveaways (focused on larger events with special OS affinity)
-* [[Operate OSGeo Booth]] (large events)
-* [[Community Outreach - community contact management, spotlights, case studies]]
-== Committee Members ==
 * [[User:Arnulf Christl | Arnulf Christl]]
-* [[User:mpg | Michael P. Gerlek]] - '''Chair''' - '''Library Coordinator'''
+* [[User:mpg | Michael P. Gerlek]] (chair)
-* [[User:Davemac | Dave McIlhagga]] - '''Outreach Coordinator'''
+* [[User:AlainGrignon | Alain Grignon]]
-* Peter Moran - '''Marketing Coordinator'''
 * [[User:Cholmes | Chris Holmes]]
-* [[User:AlainGrignon | Alain Grignon]]
+* [[User:Davemac | Dave McIlhagga]]
 * [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]]
+* Peter Moran
 Got an idea?  Interested in joining?  Just let us know!
-== Linking ==
+We generally meet on Thursdays at 15:00 UTC (8am PST), via conference call and on the #osgeo IRC channel.  Our meetings page: [[VisCom_Meetings]]
-Links to the OSGeo Foundation web site should be related to the primary context of fostering Free and Open Source Software projects, availability of [[Public Geospatial Data Project]] and Free Geospatial Data. Both [[International Outreach]] and [[Like Minded Regional Organizations]] will establish an efficient network.
-== Press Releases ==
+Our mailing list: [mailto:dev@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org dev@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org] ([https://visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList subscribe]).
-A [[Press Release Process]] and [[Press Release Template]] have been developed.
-Due to the possibility of a Slashdot affect, CollabNet operations needs to be notified 24 hours in advance of press releases whenever possible. Please email Auke and Michael Lavoie at the following addresses as soon as you have an aproximate time and date: auke@collab.net, mlavoie@collab.net
+== Press Releases ==
-First [https://www.osgeo.org/content/news/news_archive/open_source_geospatial_foundation_initial_press_release.html Press Release] published 6 March 2006
+Got some news worthy of an OSGeo press release?  Let us know!  (our [[Press Release Process]])
-== Where to Send Press Releases ==
+Past press releases:
+* 6 March 2006 - [https://www.osgeo.org/content/news/news_archive/open_source_geospatial_foundation_initial_press_release.html Press Release]
-The following are addresses to send press releases:
-* submit.news@consortiuminfo.org (see:  http://www.consortiuminfo.org/bulletins/ ).
-* [http://www.directionsmag.com/press.releases/?duty=Contribute DirectionsMag online]
-* [http://slashgeo.org/submit.pl Slashgeo online]
-* [http://www.geoplace.com/pressrelease/login.asp GeoPlace.com online]
-== Presentations ==
+== Event Coordination ==
-Presentations, promotion and dissemination of the OSGeo Foundation principles and ideas:
-* Give talks and [[Presentations]] at conferences
-* Hold workshops at conventions
-* [[Operate OSGeo Booth]] at exhibitions, conventions, user meetings
-=== Presentation Material ===
+(tbd)
-A central document directory should feature [[Presentations]] about the OSGeo. Presentations should eventually be managed in the SVN repository of the Promotion and Visibility Project. Externals who need to get the FOSSGIS idea across can use material from this repository to build their own presentations. The material will be appropriately licensed with a free non-software license (e.g., Creative Commons licenses).
-At a later stage Posters, Give Aways, Flyers, live-CD, etc. can be added (see also [[Fundraising]]).
 === Formats, Copyright, License of Documents ===