[Foss4g2010] Sponsorship Prospectus [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Raj Singh
rsingh at opengeospatial.org
Tue Nov 24 18:12:41 EST 2009
Yes I agree. That makes the most sense.
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Raj
On Nov 24, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Lorenzo Becchi <lorenzo at ominiverdi.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) <arnulf at osgeo.org
> > wrote:
> All,
> having the OGC at FOSS4G in my opinion is a must. But they can
> probably cater for themselves when it comes to funding. Ideally the
> Sponsorship Prospectus will reference that the OGC participates at
> FOSS4G but not specify a separate sponsorship address for them.
> Makes sense?
>
> well explained
> thx
>
> lorenzo
>
>
> Best regards,
> Arnulf.
>
> Lorenzo Becchi wrote:
> hi Bruce and Raj,
> I personally consider an honour to have the CCIP event inside
> FOSS4G2010.
> I consider it a strategic event for both OGC and OSGeo.
> In this moment I need to publish the Sponsorship Prospectus and
> would like to know what make sense to write into it.
> Please, tell me if you still want to be part of FOSS4G. doors are
> open for you.
> If you want to participate, I agree about having two different lines
> of sponsorship. It makes poor sense to me to collect money for OGC.
> Please provide, ASAP, a text that introduce CCIP 2010 and how
> sponsors can support it.
>
> do you still need somebody from the spanish meteo?
>
> thanks
> lorenzo
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Raj Singh
> <rsingh at opengeospatial.org <mailto:rsingh at opengeospatial.org>> wrote:
>
> Just to add some detail to the conversation. Bruce and I discussed
> that even if we didn't make CCIP an *integral* part of FOSS4G2010,
> we would still advocate for OGC and open source CCIP 2010
> participants to highlight their CCIP 2010 work in FOSS4G 2010
> workshops, presentations, and booths.
>
> ---
> Raj
>
>
>
> On Nov 23, at 6:34 PM, Bruce Bannerman wrote:
>
>
> Tyler, Lorenzo and all,
>
> I'm sensing some reluctance to have a CCIP type of event at
> FOSS4G.
>
> Raj and I discussed this issue this morning and feel that we
> don't
> want to force this event on the FOSS4G community. We want to
> maintain
> good relations.
>
> We will begin making contingency plans and look at alternate
> events
> that we could run a CCIP type of event at.
>
> GSDI-12 is one possible alternative. It is also perhaps a
> better fit
> for the ideals of the event.
>
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foss4g2010-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> <mailto:foss4g2010-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>
> [mailto:foss4g2010-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> <mailto:foss4g2010-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>] On Behalf Of
> Bruce Bannerman
> Sent: Saturday, 21 November 2009 10:58 AM
> To: tmitchell at osgeo.org <mailto:tmitchell at osgeo.org>
> Cc: 'foss4g2010 at lists.osgeo.org
> <mailto:foss4g2010 at lists.osgeo.org>'; raj at rajsingh.org
> <mailto:raj at rajsingh.org>
>
> Subject: RE: [Foss4g2010] Sponsorship Prospectus
> [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
>
> G'day Tyler,
>
> I will put something together as soon as we're able.
>
> I have a call with Raj on Tuesday where we will discuss the
> best way to answer this. We will be preempting CCIP
> community
> discussion. Let me know if you need more than this email in
> the short term.
>
> Suffice to say that we aim to have a much more structured
> project approach to the 2010 event, with more time for
> planning and project delivery. I would ideally like to
> have a
> one day stream at FOSS4G-2010 dedicated to CCIP-2010 where
> participants could expose their work in more detail. We
> have
> yet to have this conversation with both communities though.
> We are also aiming for significantly higher sponsorship
> dollars.
>
> CCIP would bring in more revenue to FOSS4G in participants
> alone, exposing (some) to FOSS4G perhaps for the first
> time.
> It will also bring in revenue from Conference facilities
> etc.
> There will also be a great additional stream of marketing
> for
> FOSS4G-2010.
>
> Strategically, FOSS4G will be seen as great community
> partners of OGC and in doing something positive in the
> Climate arena to try and make systems interoperable and to
> help ensure that the real 'numbers' are available for
> scrutiny via open standards.
>
> I anticipate that the lessons learned will come out of the
> SWOT analysis.
>
>
> One thing that we would like to pursue with greater vigour
> this year is to how to get greater Open Source spatial
> participation in the event.
>
> One idea that I'm pursuing is the idea of CCIP Participant
> partnerships between science communities and spatial
> communities / vendors. We should be able to achieve this if
> we target the scenarios right. This may give OS Communities
> the opportunity to get involved via a 'science' sponsor,
> perhaps an organisation like my own.
>
> Anyway, these are preliminary thoughts that need to be
> worked
> through with the relevant communities.
>
>
>
> Bruce
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Tyler Mitchell [tmitchell.osgeo at shaw.ca
> <mailto:tmitchell.osgeo at shaw.ca>]
>
> Sent: Saturday, 21 November 2009 4:21 AM
> To: Bruce Bannerman
> Cc: 'foss4g2010 at lists.osgeo.org
> <mailto:foss4g2010 at lists.osgeo.org>'
>
> Subject: Re: [Foss4g2010] Sponsorship Prospectus
> [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
>
> Hi Bruce, glad to here you've recovered enough ;)
>
> For me the CCIP process was a bit opaque - could you give
> Lorenzo and the rest of us an overview on the main
> benefit of
> running the process? e.g. how did it add value to the
> FOSS4G
> event - both subjectively and financially. And how much
> work
> did it require from someone on the LOC?
>
> Also, do you have any sort of "lessons learned" compiled
> anywhere?
>
> Thanks! G'day,
> Tyler
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bruce Bannerman <B.Bannerman at bom.gov.au
> <mailto:B.Bannerman at bom.gov.au>>
> Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009 4:03 pm
> Subject: [Foss4g2010] Sponsorship Prospectus
> [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
> To: "'foss4g2010 at lists.osgeo.org
> <mailto:foss4g2010 at lists.osgeo.org>'"
> <foss4g2010 at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:foss4g2010 at lists.osgeo.org
> >>
>
> Lorenzo,
>
>
> hi all,
> we've been revisiting the contents of the
> prospectus.
> We've set up prices and other details.
>
> there's still a couple of things, mostly about
> refining
>
> contents and using
>
> proper English, that should be done.
>
> we invite you all to contribute, in the wiki or in
> this list.
>
> the revision time will be until next monday then
> we'll pass
>
> the content to
>
> the designer for the final layout.
>
> here's the content of the prospectus:
>
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2010_Sponsorship_and_Exhibitor_Prosp
>
> ectus>
>
> Lorenzo
>
>
> I've had a quick look at the Prospectus.
>
> For CCIP-2009, we found that trying to get CCIP
> sponsorship for
> participants via the Conference Organiser and also OGC
>
> didn't work and
>
> was just plain confusing for potential participants.
>
> The FOSS4G CCIP sponsorship package offered very
> little to
>
> potential
>
> sponsors.
>
>
> In the end, we assigned the responsibility for
> obtaining
>
> sponsorship
>
> dollars to the OGC.
>
>
> The money that the OGC raised helped run the CCIP
> project.
>
> A substantial portion of the major CCIP Sponsor's
> funding
>
> came back to
>
> FOSS4G for booth, conference etc fees.
>
> I can give you these figures off line.
>
>
> In short, I'd leave the CCIP sponsorship arrangements
> with
>
> the OGC and
>
> negotiate suitable costs depending on CCIP-2010
> requirements.
>
>
> I'd say that you will be getting people attending
>
> FOSS4G-2010 just to
>
> see the results of CCIP-2010. We will need to ensure
> that
>
> there is a
>
> definite programe of interest presented. So there
> will be
>
> additional
>
> return there as well.
>
>
> Bruce
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