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<div class="">It seems like there is enough going on that some consideration should be applied to the idea of actually hiring some individual or Comp. to handle some of this. I think the community is going to be hard pressed to retain a volunteer for this
type of stuff over the long run.</div>
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<div class="">On Mar 18, 2016, at 1:00 PM, Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" class="">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">Taking a chance to round up outstanding activities from prior board meetings:
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<div class="">* <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Face_to_Face_Meeting_2016" target="_blank" class="">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Face_to_Face_Meeting_2016</a></div>
<div class="">* <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2016-3-10" target="_blank" class="">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2016-3-10</a></div>
<div class="">* <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2016-3-10" target="_blank" class="">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2016-3-10</a> </div>
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<div class="">Here is what I have found for the marketing committee (CCing Marc from discussion list in the hopes we can recruit him):<br class="">
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<li class="">Motion: Contact Marketing Committee with strategic plan of 2016 to give new mandate to them for reviving marketing activities.<br class="">
</li><li class="">MOT2: Approve 1000 USD as intreim budget for Marketing committee by e-mail vote</li></ul>
<div class="">So far we are waiting on the strategic plan, best I can offer right now is:</div>
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<div class="">* <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Face_to_Face_Meeting_2016#OSGeo_2016_Strategic_Plan" target="_blank" class="">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Face_to_Face_Meeting_2016#OSGeo_2016_Strategic_Plan</a>:</div>
<div class="">* <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Strategic_Plan_2016" target="_blank" class="">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Strategic_Plan_2016</a></div>
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<div class="">The good news (for the marketing committee) is that most of these objectives are about communication - so we can help:</div>
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<li class="">S01: showcasing excellence in our communities<br class="">
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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 class="">S02: proactively engage with external partners<br class="">
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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 class="">
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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
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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 class="">
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<li class="">S03: Fostering our mission, vision and goals<br class="">
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Check out the about page for revised <a href="http://www.osgeo.org/about" target="_blank" class="">
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 class="">
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</li><li class="">S04: Empowering our communities and extending our reach<br class="">
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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 class="">
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TLDR: work with the volunteers that show up for the marketing committee, and ask for help to make up the gap.</li></ul>
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<div class="">I hope this will be a productive discussion, please resist the urge to include
<a href="mailto:discuss@osgeo.org" target="_blank" class="">discuss@osgeo.org</a> - use this (and every day) as an opportunity to recruit volunteers for the marketing committee.</div>
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