FOSS4G2007 Communication

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FOSS4G2007

Marketing Notes

E-Mail Marketing

The following events should trigger a wave of e-mail marketing to the four corners of the open source world:

  • Call for Workshops
  • Call for Presentations
  • Opening of Registration
  • End of Early Bird Registration

Here is a list of lists and posters we should use to propagate this message:

  • postgis-users, Paul Ramsey
  • geotools-devel, Jody Garnett
  • gt2-users-list, Jody Garnett
  • udig-devel, Jody Garnett
  • geoserver-devel, Jody Garnett
  • mapserver-users, Steve Lime
  • freegis, Paul Ramsey
  • mapguide-users, Bob Bray
  • qgis-user, Gary Sherman
  • grass-dev and grassuser, Markus Neteler
  • osgeo announce, Frank Warmerdam
  • gdal-dev, Frank Warmerdam
  • worldwind?
  • openlayers, Chris Schmidt
  • mapbender, Arnulf Christl
  • ossim, Mark Lucus
  • jump (jump-users and openjump lists), Landon Blake
  • gvsig, trying gvsig at gva.es to start
  • opengis/geosptatial?
  • gmt?
  • sharpmap?
  • mapnik, Artem Pavlenko
  • geowankers, Allan Doyle
  • kamap-users, -dev, Paul Spencer
  • mapbuilder-users, -dev, Cameron Shorter
  • eogeo, Allan Doyle
  • CEOS WGISS lists, Allan Doyle
  • NASA ESIP lists, Perry Nacionales
  • MapStorer lists, Sebastian Schmitz
  • Chameleon lists, Paul Spencer
  • More Please...

Paper Marketing

We will be doing one mail-out coinciding with the opening of registration. This mail out will go to:

  • Some OSGIS 2005 attendees
    • Students and folks we know will hear about the conference anyways need to be stripped from the list
  • Some FOSS4G 2006 attendees
    • Students and folks we know will hear about the conference anyways need to be stripped from the list
  • GIS offices and companies in the Pacific Northwest
    • Manually generated list
  • Some GeoWorld subscribers (?)
    • Need to choose which states to send to. Entire list is too big.
  • Some Geospatial Solutions subscribers (?)
    • Need to choose which states to send to. Entire list is too big.

Industry Event Calendars

We have been adding ourselves to industry event calendars wherever possible. So far, we are on: