Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] completed branding and collateral materials are now in github

2017-09-28 Thread Jody Garnett
Agreed! Arne we did capture the individual page examples here ( https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/marketing/collateral/presentation/template). Perhaps you can use those as a background for the different template pages? -- Jody Garnett On 28 September 2017 at 18:59, Helena Mitasova

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] completed branding and collateral materials are now in github

2017-09-28 Thread Helena Mitasova
Arne, presentation template with the new branding for Reveal would be very welocme - we use it a lot but we did not have time to incorporate the branding elements Thank you, Helena P.S. This is my presentation about geoforall from FOSS4G 2017 - I can then updated it with the new tamplate

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Call for Google Code-in mentors - OSGeo-Live

2017-09-28 Thread Cameron Shorter
Vicky suggested the Google Code-In at our last OSGeo-Live weekly IRC meeting. OSGeo-Live could be a good starting point to initiate tasks for activities. In particular, I think we could invite students to create a video for each of the OSGeo-Live quickstarts (1 task = 1 application's

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Nominations - thinking about the next board

2017-09-28 Thread Cameron Shorter
As we are coming into elections, I expect that many of you will be thinking about: 1. Who should I be inviting to join the OSGeo board? 2. What qualities do we want to see in board members? 3. How much commitment should we expect from board members (noting that they are volunteers)? 4. Am

[OSGeo-Discuss] Call for Google Code-in mentors

2017-09-28 Thread Helmut Kudrnovsky
Dear OSGeo Community, a few days ago we had a virtual kickoff meeting about Google Code-in. [1] * What is Google Code-in [2]: "Pre-university students ages 13 to 17 are invited to take part in Google Code-in: Our global, online, contest introducing teenagers to the world of open source. With

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] completed branding and collateral materials are now in github

2017-09-28 Thread Jody Garnett
There are a couple reasons to use GitHub - none of them great. When uDig was using gitorious that many visitors would follow GitHub instructions and get confused. GitHub one market share by having better docs, and now it is assumed. When GeoServer was still on OSGeo SVN we maintained an official

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] completed branding and collateral materials are now in github

2017-09-28 Thread Jeff McKenna
On 2017-09-28 4:41 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: On 2017-09-28 12:34 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: On 9/22/2017 3:17 PM, Jody Garnett wrote: In this weeks meeting we have received the complete branding and collateral material which I have had a chance to place in github:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] completed branding and collateral materials are now in github

2017-09-28 Thread Jeff McKenna
On 2017-09-28 12:34 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: On 9/22/2017 3:17 PM, Jody Garnett wrote: In this weeks meeting we have received the complete branding and collateral material which I have had a chance to place in github: https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo A belated question, but why not use

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] completed branding and collateral materials are now in github

2017-09-28 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 9/22/2017 3:17 PM, Jody Garnett wrote: In this weeks meeting we have received the complete branding and collateral material which I have had a chance to place in github: https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo A belated question, but why not use https://git.osgeo.org/ that Sandro and others helped

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] presenting open source software or open source projects

2017-09-28 Thread Jody Garnett
To run this topic into the ground, we will end up with a small distinction between "open source projects" (software + community) and "project teams" (the developers producing the software). In the examples that started this conversation: - The gvSig association has several open source projects,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2017] Charter Member nomination results

2017-09-28 Thread Jody Garnett
And to follow up, the OSGeo board has voted electronically to accept the new members :) Sorry it takes so long (when voting electronically our by-laws asks for all board members to approve the motion).

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] completed branding and collateral materials are now in github

2017-09-28 Thread Arne Schubert
Hey Jody and all the others from the OSGeo discussion list, > If you have any skill with InkScape, Scribus or LibreOffice the marketing > committee would love to request your help reviewing, adapting and applying > this content for community use. > I have experience in Scribus, so you (or