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 the Marketing Committee and what we do.

Our Mission

The mission of the Marketing Committee is to spread word and build a strong brand to enhance recognition of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, foundation projects, and the use of open source in geospatial applications in general. We do this by:

supporting OSGeo participations at events, tradeshows, and conferences
creation of OSGeo marketing materials (brochures, logos, etc.)
aiding in the creation and dissemination of case studies, white papers
outreach to other organizations, companies, groups, media
acting as supplier and shopkeeper for T-shirts and other OSGeo swag

Committee Logistics

The official committee web site is this Wiki. It is also the work place to organize events and create documents. Stable versions are available for download at the OSGeo web site http://www.osgeo.org, find the corresponding descriprions in the Library.

The Marketing Committee consists of:

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.

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

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-'''October 2007: VisCom Committee renamed to [[Marketing Committee]]'''
 ''This page is designed to tell you everything you need to know about the Marketing Committee and what we do.''
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 * [[User:Racicot | Aaron Racicot]]
 * Nathalie Mainland
-Got an idea?  Interested in joining? Subscribe to the Marketing Mailing List and let us know!
-=== Meeting ===
-We are currently working out when to have regular meetings on the #osgeo IRC channel (it was on Wednesday at 15:00 UTC (8am PST) but is currently not scheduled). All [[VisCom Meetings]] are archived and also publicly available.
-=== Mailing List ===
-The Marketing Committee has a mailing list at marketing at lists.osgeo.org. To post a mail please first ([http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing subscribe]). The [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/marketing/ archive] of this mailing list is open to the public.
 == Press Releases ==
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 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 [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Category:Events Category:Events] page.
+Upcoming events are listed on the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Category:Events Category:Events] page by adding the Category to the corresponding page.
-== Current To-Do List (Things We're Thinking About) ==
-We are using [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ trac] as a task-management tool.  [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&group=priority&component=VisCom&order=priority This query] will show the list of the Marketing Committee issues currently open.
+== Open Issues ==
+We have access to a [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ trac] system as task-management tool but are curently not actively using it.
 * to be moved to trac:
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 == [[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 [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing Marketing Mailing List] if you need anything that you cannot find in the library.
-An extensive library of presentations, white papers and other materials is being assembled in the Marketing Committee Library at http://www.osgeo.org/library. Find more descriptions and links on the [[Library]] Page of this Wiki.
-Due to the infrastructure migration it is not completely restored and online accessibility is somewhat restricted. If you need any materials, please get in contact through the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing Marketing Mailing List].
 == Columns ==
 * [[GeoConnexion Column]]
 [[Category:Events]]
 [[Category:Marketing]]