<div dir="ltr">I managed to write up the 25% discount based small business, repeated sponsorship, region - resulting in the following two examples.<div><br></div><div><div>Examples:</div><div><ul><li>A bronze OSGeo sponsor ($1000 USD) from France chooses to sponsor Paris Code Sprint silver ($1600 USD) and foss4g 2016 supporter ($1600 USD) and is listed as a Silver Sponsor (final total $4200 USD)<br></li><li>A small business form India sponsors a local event ($100 USD) and decides to obtain an OSGeo bronze sponsorship ($462 USD) using two 25% discounts (final total $562 USD).</li></ul><div>I understand and respect your hesitation with respect a $500 target, I feel the discounts above and ability to count local and code sprint sponsorship towards OSGeo will help offset your hesitation. When I tried the numbers $500 was too low given the amounts listed for paris code sprint and foss4g 2016.</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div>So for small Canadian buisness your target is $750, sponsor a local event or code sprint and you have brought the cost down to $500. And for a subsequent year you start out at $562 ... so I think this will work out fine.</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 November 2015 at 22:14, Jeff McKenna <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="_blank">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks for contacting sponsors Jody. I still feel that the $500 price point is perfect for the majority of our community (small business), so I hope you get good feedback on that optionB proposal (whereas 1,000 USD would be too high for my pockets). 500 would match what I pay for another association.<br>
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By the way, something brand new is email notifications from the wiki (for some reason when Martin upgraded the MediaWiki software recently, all of a sudden, the original e-mail address when registering is used for magical notifications) See below for an attempt by the wiki to send to <a href="mailto:jgarnett@refractions.net" target="_blank">jgarnett@refractions.net</a> ha! You can update this by:<br>
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- login to the wiki<br>
- after login click "Preferences" in the top right<br>
- mid-way down the page see "Email options" and beside that a link to "change email address"<br>
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Enjoy :)<br>
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-jeff<br>
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On 2015-11-19 5:01 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:<br>
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
I have updated the draft sponsorship page based on the feedback in this<br>
thread:<br>
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* <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_2015_Sponsorship" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_2015_Sponsorship</a><br>
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I find the result much easier to understand, the two proposals are now<br>
very close to each other which a good result of this discussion. I will<br>
be contacting prior sponsors tomorrow, in part to solicit feedback<br>
between proposal A and proposal B.<br>
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Thank you for your patience and participation.<br>
<br>
Jody<br>
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--<br>
Jody Garnett<br>
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On 12 November 2015 at 14:34, Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a><br></span><span class="">
<mailto:<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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I would like a hand collecting sponsor email addresses - for<br>
everyone on this page<br></span>
<<a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/2015_Sponsorship_Drive_Working_Group" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/2015_Sponsorship_Drive_Working_Group</a>>.<span class=""><br>
If you note any likely candidate please add them to the list.<br>
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Two questions:<br>
- It is not the best to collect email addresses on a wiki page - any<br>
suggestions?<br>
- Wanted to ask if it would be rude for us to contact the<br>
organizations on the service provider<br></span><span class="">
<<a href="http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile</a>> page?<br>
--<br>
Jody Garnett<br>
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