[Board] Reviving the OSGeo Marketing Committee?

[Jeff McKenna]

On 2014-09-19 5:44 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
> We have a few things to address in OSGeo marketing:
> 1. We don't have an efficient micro-payment system, for say paying
> someone $100 to cover costs of printing a few fliers for a local foss4g
> event. (I think each cheque costs $30 to write).

Interesting, I wasn't aware of the $30 cheque issue.  I wonder if there 
is some other way to avoid this cost.

>
> 2. We need to revamp our wiki, probably throw away most existing
> content, as it is too hard for anyone to work out what is/is not in
> scope for marketing funding. We need to replace with clear guidelines
> and priorities.

I agree with the full cleanup / starting over.

>
> 3. As highlighted at last foss4g, USB printers often are not competent
> enough to print bootable USBs. (OSGeo-Live USBs are one of our key
> marketing tools). So we probably need to find a trusted USB printer,
> then get them to ship to worthy causes.
>


Boy Cameron you are right on that one.  Other OSGeo-Live leads like 
BrianH and Angelos both told me in Portland that we, OSGeo, should be 
finding one single distributor for bootable USBs, test a small batch 
with them, then distribute to all events from that one distributor - 
exactly what you just said here.

-jeff