Marketing Committee

This is the new name and home of the Promotion and Visibility Committee.

Committee Infrastructure

The committee Infrastructure currently comprises a Mailing List and regular meetings on IRC.

^=== Regular Meeting === Next meeting suggested(!) for Thursday April 10th at 6:30 UTC. Watch out, new time! This will work for Australia, Asia, Europe and the Pacific coast but not EST. Join on (#osgeo). IRC client (select #osgeo from the drop-down list, and type /nick YOURNAME, to set your nickname for use in the channel).

Add agenda items here

• FOSS4G 2008
  • What can we do to promote FOSS4G in SA?
    • Use and brand an existing Live CD for promo purposes, redistribution?
• Discussion of Communication Plan (from Marketing Proposal 2007)
  • What can Open Source Marketing do for us?
  • Case Studies http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Case_Studies
• Collect, discuss events
  • California Geographical Society Annual Meeting: Conservation and Planning for Sustainability Details (1.6MB PDF)
• Logo updates
• OSGeo Membership

Agenda and Meeting Protocols

• Marketing Meeting 2008.02.27
• Marketing Meeting 2008.01.30
• Marketing Meeting 2008.01.16
• Marketing Meeting 2007.12.05
• Marketing Meeting 2007.11.21
• Marketing Meeting 2007.10.24
• Marketing Meeting 2007.10.10
• Also see VisCom Meetings for older ones

Mailing List

The Marketing Committee has a mailing list at marketing at lists.osgeo.org. To post a mail please first (subscribe). The archive of this mailing list is open to the public.

Committee Members

Committee members are eligible to vote. The process to become Committee member is rather informal, just send a list to introduce yourself to the list, describe your interests and - please - attend to meetings.

• Arnulf Christl (chair)
• Tyler Mitchell
• Jeroen Ticheler
• Daniele Nascimento
• Torsten Brassat
• Michael P. Gerlek
• Perry Nacionales
• Nathalie Mainland
• Cameron Shorter (occasionally)

Responsibilities

• Develop a Marketing Plan
  • Marketing Plan Discussion 0
  • Marketing Plan Discussion I]
  • Marketing Plan Discussion II
  • Marketing Plan Discussion III
  • Marketing Target Discussion
  • Marketing proposal
• More to come...

Involvement

Everyone is welcome to work with this committee and contribute, whether or not you are a formal member of the committee. Please join the Marketing mailing list and introduce yourself.

Press Releases

The Marketing Committee oversees the issuing of press releases for the Foundation (Press Release Process). Got some news you think is worthy of an OSGeo press release, or want to help translate some text? Let us know! Past press releases:

• 6 March 2006 - "OSGeo Created"
• Press Release 2006-07-19 "OSGeo at 6-month mark"
• Press Release 2006-10-06 "FOSS4G 2006 Conference Summary"
• Press_Release_2006-10-19 "Tyler selected as ED"
• Press_Release_2007-08-03 "Service Provider Directory Launched"

Event Coordination

The Marketing Committee is responsible the Foundation's presence tradeshows, conferences, workshops, etc. We can coordinate the booth, supply materials, arrange for speakers, etc. Please see out Event Management page for more information.

Upcoming events are listed on the Category:Events page by adding the Category to the corresponding page.

Open Issues

We have access to a trac system as task-management tool but are curently not actively using it.

• to be moved to trac:
  • GenericOSGeoPresentation

Library

It was planned to create an extensive library of presentations, white papers and other materials in the OSGeo Library at http://www.osgeo.org/library. Find more descriptions and links on the Library Page of this Wiki and get in contact through the Marketing Mailing List if you need anything that you cannot find in the library.

Columns

• GeoConnexion Column