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<p>Hi Maria,</p>
<p>this was one of our early ideas we also had when talking about
how to sponsor osgeo-europe. O course this is a difficult topic
because we have to persuade all local chapters, to donate some of
their money to the global organisation.</p>
<p>Perhaps the easy offer of OSgeo "if you pay %% percent on top of
your bronze/silver/gold/whatever sponsorship of any OSGeo-related
event (to be defined), we will name you as sponsor of OSGeo..</p>
<p>Just any 2 cent.</p>
<p>Till<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 09.11.2017 um 21:50 schrieb María
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<div dir="auto">Maybe we could give some percentage (per region?
per conference?) of the OSGeo sponsorship to organizers. Or
maybe foss4g conference organizers can ask for money to OSGeo
like we do with codesprints.
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<div dir="auto">There are ways to achieve this. The only thing
is to find a balanced way. Maybe we can give money to
conferences which promise to give a percentage of their
tickets sold back to OSGeo? </div>
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<div dir="auto">Nevertheless, continental and national
"foss4g" are not managed by OSGeo so I see very difficult
to impose "OSGeo sponsors" also there...
<div dir="auto">Am I wrong?</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Till we have tried to set it up so
there is no conflict, but we need foss4g organizers
to understand this.
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<div>A sponsors $20k sponsorship of foss4g (or any
other osgeo event) directly applies to their total
osgeo sponsosrship. We are not competing for the
same sponsors, we are trying to give foss4g
sponsors an oppertunity to be cross-listed. We
have left it up to them to ask (for example CARTO
is a foss4g sponsors who sent an email and was
listed on our sponsors page).</div>
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23:36, Till Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<p>Dear board,</p>
<p>I know that there have been some
discussions around this already, but
perhaps it's time to think about how to
get OSgeo sponsorship and FOSS4G
sponsorship under one umbrella?</p>
<p>If two independent "groups" request the
same potential group of sponsors, this may
lead to confusion.</p>
<p>My ideas go in this direction: If you
sponsor OSGeo (FOSS4G) at a certain level
(or with a certain additional charge) you
are automaticaly named as sponsor of
FOSS4G (OSGeo).</p>
<p>In the end the money goes in the same
pocket.</p>
<p>Just a quick thought, that perhaps is
worth to thin about.<br>
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<p>Till<br>
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<div dir="auto">Jeff you helped set
up this <a
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approach</a> in 2015, and you
make it out to a lot of events, do
you have any suggestions for
improvement?</div>
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<div>Although we did not get to
it last meeting, it is on the
agenda for next time - here is
the osgeo sponsorship page for
2017: <a
href="http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship"
target="_blank"
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<div>In addition to raising
money the sponsorship
program has a secondary goal
of encouraging sponsors to
support our projects, local
chapters and events. This
helps recognize
organizations that
consistently support OSGeo
(rather than focus on big
sponsors that put all their
effort behind one event).
This has a couple of
benefits: it allows sponsors
some choice in directing
their funds to OSGeo
activities they believe in.
It also allows committees,
local chapters and projects
to raise funds without being
in conflict with the OSGeo
foundation. I think this
approach is brilliant and
should continue and be
promoted.</div>
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<div>The page lists
"Sponsorship Opportunities
for 2017", if you hear of
anything from our projects
or committees we can make a
similar section for 2018. We
had some hits (events,
travel grant, website
reboot, sprints) and some
misses (UN Hackathon).<br>
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<div>How to sponsors (talk to
treasurer or use paypal with
a note) is working well.</div>
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<div>The "sponsorship levels"
are only working okay, we
made a very cheap
sponsorship level at $500
USD ... and my small
consulting shop how2map was
the only organization to
make use of it. Indeed we
had groups from outside our
industry use the low
sponsorship level to
optimize search results -
something the board put a
stop to in 2017. I would
like to give this low
sponsorship level another
try, especially since the
new website can provide
additional visibility to
these organizations; but I
would also understand if we
drop it from lack of
use/interest.</div>
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<div>I have gotten private
feedback, especially after
the foss4g sponsorship
levels were published that
OSGeo should raise our
rates. I am not so sure (in
part because the feedback is
private), in part because we
are a world wide
organization and comparisons
to us and eu organizations
are not appropriate. Mostly
I think there is no need to
be greedy - our goal is as
much to promote these
sponsors and build community
as it is to raise funds.</div>
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<div>We have two discounts
available (25% for prior
sponsors, 25% for Low or
Lower-Middle Income
Economies). These discounts
are being effective with
prior sponsors, offering
getting them just close
enough to the next level
that they provide additional
funds. Kind of like we
planned. The
low-to-lower-middle-income
discount is not really being
used; I expect we need to
provide more value - or
better advertise that local
event sponsorship counts
towards foundation
sponsorship.</div>
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<div>The "sponsorship
benefits" have been passed
to us from previous boards,
and we struggled to
understand two of them that
required direct management
from the board - indeed they
were difficult and time
consuming to implement:</div>
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<div><i>Invitation to <b>Sponsor
Information Exchange
Event</b> with Board of
Directors following annual
OSGeo International
Conference </i>- we turned
this into a sponsorship
breakfast with Maria doing
the organizing. This was
successful in giving us a
chance to meet meet with
sponsors and partners. I
think this was really
important to see what
organizations are working
with us face to face. Sadly
the time allowed barely got
us passed introductions -
resulting in a breakout
meeting and other follow up
activities.</div>
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<div><i>Invitation to <b>Sponsor
Networking Event </b>with
OSGeo Board of Directors
and other invited guests
following annual OSGeo
International
Conference. </i>This
was intended to be a
chance to thank partners
and sponsors in public,
although the foss4g
organizers set us up a
stage during the
conference networking
event our board members
were not in position act.
The opportunity to network
and build
connections/collaborations/con<wbr>tacts
was a consistent request
during the subsequent
breakfast meeting - so we
missed an opportunity
here.</div>
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<div><i>Joint <b>Press
Release</b> with OSGeo
to announce Sponsorship. </i>These
are a bit of a bother to do,
generally as a shared google
document and then coordinate
timing with the sponsors.
Not all sponsors (example
CARTO) went ahead with a
press release. We also tend
to just make a blog post,
rather than issue a press
release to news
organizations. This is
something we could
coordinate (with marketing?)
to provide better value to
our sponsors and partners.
We may consider bumping the
press release up from silver
to gold.<br>
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<div><i>Organization name
listed in "about osgeo"
section of foundation
press releases. </i>We
are doing this, no feedback
so far.<br>
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<div><i>First Sponsorship
Selection for the </i><b
style="font-style:italic">Annual
OSGeo International
Conference. </b>This is
interesting as we have not
always communicated this to
our foss4g organizers, we
should confirm with the
conference committee that
this benefit is possible
before offering it in 2018.<br>
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<div><i>Key OSGeo marketing
materials feature your
organization's logo, At
promotion events, your
organization's logo is
displayed as part of the
OSGeo Booth - </i>We
are doing this with the
marketing committee, no
issues so far. For our
usual sponsors they often
have their own booth and
do not make use of this
perk. Unclear if this
applies to local chapters
running a booth?</div>
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<div><i>Full-page
Promotional Space on a
personalized OSGeo
Sponsor Page,
Promotional Space on an
OSGeo Platinum Sponsor
Page - </i>Our website
design does not work like
this, but it could?</div>
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<div><i>Right to use OSGeo
Sponsor logo and promote
named sponsorship level </i>We
have new logos to roll out
to sponsors.<br>
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