Marketing campaign

To better advertise the capabilities of GRASS GIS and its friendly community, we plan a marketing campaign. Some ideas are

• (ideally) monthly blog post on the main site, with social media advertisements
• ask students of our courses to fix bugs, add examples to manuals or write small tutorials as assignements that we could then show off with
• pick some works of the students and create webinars or live streams
• ... add more

Ideas

• "feature of the month" with screenshots (use manual pages and Wiki material)
• advertise the mailing lists: purpose and where to subscribe
• newcomer level technical articles about
  • new forthcoming startup in GRASS GIS 8
  • data import/registration
  • from zero to hero
  • the new startup GUI
  • ...
• power user level technical articles about
  • writing examples for manual pages
  • translating messages in Transifex
  • ...
• dev level technical articles about
  • compiling the software
  • work done on removing compiler warnings
  • Python linting and formatting efforts
  • C linting and formatting efforts
  • ...
• edu related articles about
  • tutorials
  • curriculum (goal: enable academics to easier teach GRASS GIS)
  • ...
• present new add-ons and examples of workflows using them
• Nice tweet about ongoing code development: ​https://gitmemory.com/OSGeo/grass
• Twitter: identify more hashtags to widen up the potential followers
• ...

Twitter posts

• See old posts here: ​https://twitter.com/GRASSGIS

Ideas for upcoming posts

• PSC meeting minutes
• translations in Transifex (what about ​https://weblate.osgeo.org/ ?)
• promote/recall folks about mailing lists
• promote discussions in github
• r.in.usgs enhancements
• ncsu courses
• OpenCollective: Our new money sponsoring pool is now at ​https://opencollective.com/grass
  • important: connect a goal with it
• Invite folks to test release branch 8 and complete the wiki: ​https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass8/NewFeatures80

• last post about foss4g 2021 videos:

Did you miss the talk about #ESA #Copernicus Sentinel data processing and analysis in GRASS GIS @foss4g 2021?? The video is online now! Get your popcorns and enjoy the amazing set of #grassgis tools for remote sensing with Guido Riembauer from @MundialisInfo, @VeronicaAndreo and the #grassgis dev team! ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btk-S5jUAfk

See also

• ​https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Promotional_material