<div dir="ltr">Thanks Cameron & Nick, could you start outlining a "reboot" on the wiki and grab an agenda item for next months board meeting? We also have a hangout/workparty for board members (and officers?) in case you want some companionship shaping the wiki page.<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 15 March 2016 at 04:38, nicolas bozon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicolas.bozon@gmail.com" target="_blank">nicolas.bozon@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Cameron, Marketing Committee, OSGeo Directors,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>As a member of the so called "dormant" Marketing Committee, i would be glad to help revitalising it. </div><div><br></div><div>In fact it hasn't been a satisfactory nor confortable situation to be a member of such a forgotten commitee since 2012. </div><div>So i'd like to volunteer for championing such committee reboot, and propose to help define strategic changes, recruit new members and tackle some of the administrative tasks. </div><div>I can also chair the Committee if needed, and if this is appropriated for gathering the troops. Cameron, I am not Santa (but 'Klaus' only:)), but I'd be very glad to learn from your experience and we may try to enhance things together.</div><div><br></div><div>However,i think the commitee's mission and role should be revised, probably indepth modified, and aligned with the new OSGeo plans.</div><div>My main point is that the mandate of the OSGeo Marketing Committee must go way beyond the funding of OSGeo events and the managment of consumables or swag, as it mostly did (or not) until now.</div><div>OSGeo Live is one of our best marketing tool to showcase some of the Foundation's software projects, but not to promote and market the Foundation itself IMHO.</div><div>OSGeo Live must of course be kept inside a new marketing plan, but the latter shouldn't be built on DVDs and events only.</div><div><br></div><div>According to me, improving OSGeo Marketing globally is one of the most important and urgent action to be taken according to the new strategic plan defined by the Board.</div><div>It must help OSGeo to be presented as more matured, more inclusive, more professional, and fully considered by the broader geospatial community.</div><div><br></div><div>I believe such reborn Marketing Committee should work closely along with the Board of Directors, the Website Committee and a few motivated contributors, in order to:</div><div><br></div><div>- Define a consitent OSGeo identity from existing material (including revised graphic guidelines, new shapes and colors aligned with identified needs and recent web trends, new scalable vector graphics, web fonts ...)</div><div>- Refine the OSGeo web identity (including main site redesign through the developement a new drupal theme, responsive webdesign, efficient and reusable visuals...)</div><div>- Enhance OSGeo web content and presence (including blog, journal, newsletter and bring more activity on various social networks) </div><div>- Market the OSGeo brand online and at all kind of events (including consumables management, viral marketing, direct marketing...)</div><div><br></div><div>Such actions could be prioritized and voted by the Committee's members, coordinated by the commitee's chair according to the Committee members, and aligned with the allocated budget and volunteered time.</div><div><br></div><div>I sincerly hope we can reboot and improve our Marketing Committee together, in order to grow and market our Foundation better.</div><div>Let us talk, decide and act now ! Enough rest for MarkCom' !</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Nick</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">2016-03-15 8:42 GMT+01:00 Cameron Shorter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
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OSGeo needs help distributing money to worthy causes. We need an
OSGeo Santa Clause.<br>
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The current state of play is:<br>
* The OSGeo Board has allocated budget for an OSGeo marketing
committee to distribute.<br>
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* But, our OSGeo Marketing committee has imploded. (I was the last
chair, a few years back). It seems no one is interested in the
administrative tasks of giving away money, doing the administrative
work of writing cheques, being accountable, deciding which requests
get funded verses which don't based on a set of guidelines.<br>
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My take is that handing out money to worthy marketing causes can't
be too important, as it is not bugging anyone enough to want to step
up and volunteer to fix it. But I'd be delighted to proven wrong,
and see some people volunteer to step up to revitalise the OSGeo
marketing committee. If you are possibly interested, please speak
up. I'd be happy to help you get started.<br>
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A first task would be to consider this request from Bob.<br>
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Warm regards, Cameron<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Sounds like an amazing event, marketing committee
should have a budget to work against shortly (it is an agenda
topic for this week and you can see the <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Operational_Budget_for_2016" target="_blank">budget</a>
on the wiki ).
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<div>Cameron is involved with both marketing committee and OSGeo
live and should be able to assist.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">All,<br>
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I haven’t heard anything back on the following request
from anyone (other than Jody commenting about where this
should be sent . . .).<br>
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So trying again . . .<br>
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All,<br>
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First, let me know if this is the wrong list to request
from.<br>
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We’re holding a regional Geo conference and would like
to include a OSGeo-Live thumb drive in each attendees
goody bag. So, please consider this an official request
for funding of OSGeo Live Thumb Drives for the event. <br>
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This is a multi- discipline, multi-state event for all
things Geo. 60 confirmed presenters. This will be a
highly knowledgable audience and because of the varied
subject matter it will be an excellent venue to get the
word out to new folks about OSGeo and it’s mission, via
the OSGeo Live project. More info about the event can
be seen here: <br>
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<a href="http://www.umgeocon.org" target="_blank">www.umgeocon.org</a><br>
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We’ve planned for 350 attendees. We can make our own
thumb drives, and/or pay to have them made ourselves.
We’ve handed these out in the past and will also include
a getting started cheat sheet for each user to get them
going with the least amount of effort. <br>
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I haven’t checked lately for the going rate on these.
Local suppliers are advertising ~$5 each for an 8GB
USB3.0 blank drive. <br>
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Request is for $2000 ($1750 for Drives, $250 for copying
the OSGeo Live suite to each).<br>
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Related, my submission of the OSGeo Live presentation
has been accepted at the event, and there will also be a
(free) GeoMOOSE workshop.<br>
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