<div dir="ltr">Taking a chance to round up outstanding activities from prior board meetings:<div><br><div>* <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Face_to_Face_Meeting_2016" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Face_to_Face_Meeting_2016</a></div><div>* <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2016-3-10" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2016-3-10</a></div><div>* <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2016-3-10" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2016-3-10</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Here is what I have found for the marketing committee (CCing Marc from discussion list in the hopes we can recruit him):<br><div><ul><li>Motion: Contact Marketing Committee with strategic plan of 2016 to give new mandate to them for reviving marketing activities.<br></li><li>MOT2: Approve 1000 USD as intreim budget for Marketing committee by e-mail vote</li></ul><div>So far we are waiting on the strategic plan, best I can offer right now is:</div><div><br></div><div>* <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Face_to_Face_Meeting_2016#OSGeo_2016_Strategic_Plan" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Face_to_Face_Meeting_2016#OSGeo_2016_Strategic_Plan</a>:</div><div>* <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Strategic_Plan_2016" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Strategic_Plan_2016</a></div><div><br></div><div>The good news (for the marketing committee) is that most of these objectives are about communication - so we can help:</div><div><div><ul><li>S01: showcasing excellence in our communities<br><br>We have a lot of amazing work happening in OSGeo, and it is staggering how much of it is not known. I for example had no idea a 400 person local chapter event was held recently in Romania. By the same token some of the triumphs taking place with GeoForAll or individual projects are not known.</li><li>S02: proactively engage with external partners<br><br>We are starting to gather a network of friendly organizations, and build up formal relationships (memorandums of understanding with OGC) or closer (joint initiatives with ICA, or being a guest member of LocationTech). <br><br>By the same token we have a lot of sponsors or participating organizations (often donating in-kind work on our OSGeo projects). You can see me making an effort to revamp our sponsor program. Next I hope to update our support-providers page to highlight participating organizations.<br><br>We would like to seek out additional organizations to work with ... how can we help OGC reach out? More direct on the open-source advocacy side how can we tell the participation message again and again and again.<br></li></ul><ul><li>S03: Fostering our mission, vision and goals<br><br>Check out the about page for revised <a href="http://www.osgeo.org/about" target="_blank">mission, vision, goals</a>. This is a bit of a branding/product exercise - but rather than focusing on what makes OSGeo special - how can we promote goals.<br><br></li><li>S04: Empowering our communities and extending our reach<br><br>I know the marketing committee has budget to help with event handouts. In this case consider the marketing committee as the community being empowered - is there anything we can do to assist? Do you want to put up a short term contract to update website content? Do you need a graphics designer (or one of those logo competitions to get a consistent set of logos created for each committee).<br><br>TLDR: work with the volunteers that show up for the marketing committee, and ask for help to make up the gap.</li></ul></div></div><div>I hope this will be a productive discussion, please resist the urge to include <a href="mailto:discuss@osgeo.org" target="_blank">discuss@osgeo.org</a> - use this (and every day) as an opportunity to recruit volunteers for the marketing committee.</div><div>-</div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div>
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