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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Jody:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>What do you think is the barrier to attracting/motivating people to this?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>To put it another way: do you think the volunteer people we need are out there and we’re just not reaching them somehow, or do you think this is not a task OSGeo-type folks are likely to volunteer for?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>-mpg<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> marketing-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:marketing-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jody Garnett<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:39 PM<br><b>To:</b> Seven (aka Arnulf)<br><b>Cc:</b> OSGeo-Marketing; board@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Marketing] Status of the Marketing Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 8.0pt;margin-left:0in;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Folks,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>how do you feel about this committee? Straight forward answers are<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal>It feels like the conference committee :-)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>We have a couple big fishes to fry (website, whitepapers) that are continually not addressed. We know what needs to be done; but cannot attract (or motivate) volunteers to put in the effort.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>