<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Board<br><br></span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To facilitate tomorrow's discussion and decision in the board I have done a little rewrite of Jody's earlier discussion piece. I put it more explicitly into a following order of dependiencies. Further explanation and back ground can be given by Jody during your meeting based on his discussions with the Committee.<br></span><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Marketing Committee has revamped itself with a new membership and intention to act upon a comprehensive marketing strategy. The committee now seeks a mandate and executive responsibility for:<br><br>1) establishing and executing a medium term marketing strategy geared at growing our community with new users, as determined in the marketing strategy for OSGeo-outreach, by means of;<br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A - a new website and logo design (2017)<br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">B - a clean up of existing/preparation of new marketing collateral (2017)<br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">C - ongoing support for events e.g. downloadable marketing collateral, event formats etc (ongoing) via the website</span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Resources needed to fulfil the tasks:<br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- the new volunteers in the Marketing Committee for managing the project under item A and executing item B.<br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- a budget of total 75k Dollar, of which 50k is for item A, 10k for item B and 10k for occasional event banners/flyers and Live-CD/USB sticks (e.g. Foss4g booths) and 5k for miscellaneous activities/purchases (e.g. MailChimp account for FOSS4G's).</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br clear="all"></span><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kind regards,<br><br></span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Marc Vloemans<br></span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br>Mobile <a href="tel:+31651%20844262" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">+31(0)651 844262</a><br>LinkedIn: <a href="http://nl.linkedin.com/in/marcvloemans" target="_blank">http://nl.linkedin.com/in/marcvloemans</a><br>Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/marcvloemans" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/marcvloemans</a></span><div><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/marcvloemans" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.slideshare.net/marcvloemans</font></a></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>Kind regards,<br><div>Marc Vloemans</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>