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

Committee Infrastructure

The committee Infrastructure currently comprises a Mailing List, regular meetings on IRC, a directory in the OSGeo SVN, CMS web space and this Wiki. 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 lurk or introduce yourself. To post a mail please first (subscribe). The archive of this mailing list is open to the public.

All pages in this Wiki related to Marketing should be tagged with | Category:Marketing.

Meetings

Meeting time change often, next one is Friday UTC (Thursday in some regions): http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=11&day=14&year=2008&hour=7&min=0&sec=0&p1=0 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).

Agenda

Please add items to this agenda as you go. Anybody can add items here, you do not have to be a member of the Marketing Committee.

Roll call
Update TrademarkGuidelines and FAQ
Follow from last meeting
... (add items to agenda here)

Meeting Minutes/Logs

Documents

Public facing documents can be found at: http://www.osgeo.org/visibility
Documents under development, or historical documents can be found in Subversion under: https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/
Brochures: http://www.osgeo.org/visibility
Flyers: https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/
Presentation Templates: http://www.osgeo.org/visibility
GenericOSGeoPresentation
Library - repository for white papers, presentations etc.
Case_Studies contains a list of relevant Geospatial Open Source case studies useful for justifying the use of GeoFOSS.
GeoConnexion Column
OSGeo Marketing Discussions

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.

Tasks

Develop guidelines for spending the Marketing budget.
- Cameron believes we should develop our marketing pipeline focusing on a conference Exhibition Pack as per his blog.
Develop a HOWTO page to help people setting up a conference.
- Mark Leslie has made a good start in his blog at http://fromtheinsidelookingin.blogspot.com/2008/10/conference-booths.html .
Develop a Marketing Plan
Coordinate Events

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:

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.

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