Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Regional Conference with a significant OSGeo footprint.

2017-10-24 Thread Jody Garnett
That is great Dirk. One thing that always gets me in the AGM meeting is how little I know about what is going on in our organization. If you have any ideas about making local chapters activities more visible to our community it would be appreciated. Hopefully listing events local chapters are

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Regional Conference with a significant OSGeo footprint.

2017-10-24 Thread Marc Vloemans
Hey Bob, Please contact me directly (no need to burden the list with noise). I can give some pointers, which at the same time will be the start of a checklist for future reference for other events. To be published in the Marketing wiki and announced on this list (better signal to noise ratio)

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Regional Conference with a significant OSGeo footprint.

2017-10-24 Thread Dirk Frigne
Jody, This is exactly what we are doing with OSGeo.BE. Last edition (Mar 2017) we attended BeGeo[1], an event where more than 1000 GIS experts attend. In 2018 the event will be even attract more people. We want to have a booth there, and are also organising one of the 9 parallel tracks [2]: I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Regional Conference with a significant OSGeo footprint.

2017-10-24 Thread Jody Garnett
I think it would be great of we promote events that OSGeo is attending in an official capacity (like if a local chapter has a booth or something). Guido has set up a number of guest appearances for OSGeo (mostly partner events) in 2017 and we could of promoted our attendance a bit more. Getting

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Regional Conference with a significant OSGeo footprint.

2017-10-24 Thread Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
All, Related to chanpter meetings (somewhat), we have a Regional Geo-event coming together for this coming May. It will have a fairly high OSGeo footprint as well. The last event two years ago, pulled in 250 attendees, shooting for 300-350 this time around. What’s the best way to promote