Promotion and Visibility Committee

(NOTE: The following is all for discussion purposes, and not firmly established yet)

The Promotion Committee will help produce input to be published by the Web Committee. Publishing, controlling and adoption as stable documents is probably done by the latter.

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).

Activities

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 (WebCommittee)
• Create and provide paperwork (ads, flyers, posters, information brochures)
• Giveaways (focused on larger events with special OS affinity)
• Booth operation (large events)

Linking

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 Geodata and Free Geodata. Both International Outreach and Like Minded Regional Organizations will establish an efficient network.

Presentations

Presentations, promotion and dissemination of the OSGeo Foundation principles and ideas:

• Give talks and presentations at conferences
• Hold workshops at conventions
• Operate OSGeo booth presenting projects at exhibitions

Presentation Material

A central document directory should feature presentations about the OSGeo. Presentations should eventually 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.

At a later stage Posters, Give Aways, Flyers, live-CD, etc. can be added.

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. 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).

Timetable

A timetable should be set up showing where OSGeo members talk, meet or give presentations. This timetable should be managed in an online planner (can CN provide for this?) and in professional map services using the OSGeo technology.