Hi Chris, I tried to gather up people to attend the VisCom meeting last week (and we did not make it). I can put some time, justin is also a member so may want to pay his dues :-)
Jody > Visibility opportunity at OSGeo. Who's available to staff an > exhibition table? I can definitely put some time in. > > Chris > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [VisCom] FOSS4G OSGeo Project visibility > Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:24:51 +0200 > From: Arnulf Christl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > .... > > This means that each project must be prepared to have one representative > be available at any time during the conference at that "booth"/table. I > guess that during sessions when there are little people in the > exhibition area it will be enough if we have two or three people > watching over things. I think from a community perspective and the goal > of bringing people together it would be a lot more attractive to not > have one booth crammed with people but to spread them loosely across the > exhibition hall. I have to check back with FOSS4G planners whether this > would be possible at all but before I do that I need to know whether we > can make it at all. Please reply to this email filling out the [square > brackets]: > > The [enter project name] PSC reports that [number of people] people have > agreed to staff the exhibition platform. The Project [can provide for / > needs] one notebook for presentations. > > If I receive 7 positive replies within four workdays we can do it this > way. If not we will just have one boring booth in a corner and I am > going to make sure that it looks ugly an unhappy. > > We currently have 8 software projects plus geodata plus education plus > one table for people to register as OSGeo members, sell trivia and > discuss Foundation issues. > > Autodesk involvement > Autodesk is again involved with sponsoring and additionally provides for > infrastructure and organizational support. Thanks a lot. They coordinate > events on a separate conference call an Tuesdays (tomorrow) and ideally > I could already give them a few hints at how this is going to develop. > Hint hint, please get back here quick with an answer. > > We have an action item list kindly prepared from Lisa Landers at > Autodesk specifying some more details: > > FOSS4G: > > OSGeo Staffing: <ACTION ITEM – ARNULF> Provide a list of people > available to staff the booth. This will help determine the number of > kiosks, currently scheduled for 3 each. > > <Arnulf> > If we really get all 11 tables staffed with one person each at any time > that should be fine. I have added a list to the Wiki, please enter > yourself or somebody you know. Don't forget that person to tell about it! > </Arnulf> > > OSGeo Demo: <ACTION ITEM – ARNULF, TYLER, LISA> Need to review during > OSGeo’s committee meeting on Thursday to determine what we can come up > with for both FOSS4G & EuroOSCON. An avi as suggested by Lisa? > > <Arnulf> > Projects are ~required to deliver presentation and demo for graduation. > This is what is referred to here. An avi might not be that important but > living demos are essential! VisCom can obviously not prepare them, so > the projects would need to make sure they have something to show. If > software needs be installed locally please bring your own. Enhance it > with some breath-taking new gimmick. Steve Lime was bored last year, I > don't want to see this happen again. :-) > </Arnulf> > > > Booth Collateral: <ACTION ITEM – ARNULF> Will most likely use the 10 > OSGeo bruchures that were used at OSCON Portland but may need to > localize, in German (for sure), French & Italian. <ACTION ITEM – TINA> > Will need to determine where they will be printed, either Adsk US or EMEA= ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
