[Board] Re: [Marketing] Local Chapter policy

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

FYI, OSGeo Japan chapter is also hosting a Local Chapter
Site at http://www.osgeo.jp/

The site was launched in late 2007, during the OSGeo
event in which some OSGeo Board also participated.

Regards

Venka


Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
>>
>> On 29-May-08, at 10:07 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>>
>>> FYI, there is now OSGeo chapter in Poland (yet) but I registered 
>>> http://osgeo.pl domain and redirected it to Polish translation of 
>>> http://osgeo.org
>>
>> And there are various other local chapter web sites and events that I 
>> am convinced the Marketing Committee knows nothing of.  Can an event 
>> just make a pointer back to OSGeo's site and use the brand?  Seems so 
>> and has been acceptable without more bureaucracy.
> 
> Tyler,
> 
> I *think* that official chapters have quite a bit of latitude in describing
> their events as OSGeo events without seeking any particular additional
> approval from the Marketting committee, board, etc.  I'm inclined to
> give "chapters in formation" some latitude in this regard too, though
> they don't really have any official status.
> 
> So, for instance, we members of the Ottawa Chapter have been considering
> geocamp an OSGeo activity on the basis of a bunch of positive grunts of
> support at a past pub meeting where it was discussed.
> 
> Best regards,