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A few thougths, in no particular order:<br>
1. I suggest this question is not just about the MarkCom's mandate (the rights) but also about the MarkCom's responsibilities (the duties).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah that is where we are starting the conversation; without a clear mandate from the board we do not have a useful committee.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
2. Marketing, PR and communication are 3 terms that are related closely. To my idea marketing could be about defining a message and an audience), PR is about sending the message to the audience and communication is about handling the messages you get back from the audience.<br>
That's just my interpretation, my main point is that too often anything related to communication is handed over to the marketing & PR department.<br>
Thus, in the smallest sense MarkCom is the abbreviation for MarketingCommittee,<br>
and in the broadest sense it should be MarkComCom (Marketing and Communications Committee). ;-)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nice definition, and I see your point. So far Marc is doing a great job of keeping us focused establishing message/audience .... </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
3. I see a close relationship between MarkCom & <a href="http://Planet.OSgeo.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Planet.OSgeo.org</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not sure I see it. But then again we have to establish audience/message first.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
4. Although MarkCom probably relies on the website as one of its channels, it seems odd to me to make MarkCom responsible for the website from a technical/infrastructural point of view. MarkCom should define what it needs are (easy ways for blogging, sending uit press releases) and be responsible for the content and probably the styling&design, although that's more a communications aspect.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sorry if I gave that impression :)</div><div><br></div><div>Marketing committee is not being asked to take responsibility for the technical/infrastructure; we are being asked to run a RFP/RFQ. If we double back to the audience/message first we can see what content meets our needs.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
Perhaps SAC should be responsible for translation the functional needs of MarkCom into a technical solution, either self-hosted or in the cloud. (My prediction: in this functional-centered approach changes are high to end up with WordPress instead of the more tech-based Drupal ;-) ).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sure? No idea ... </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
Of course this can be done by an external party in a project, as long as you know which committee is responsible for maintenance after delivering the projects results.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And this is the tricky part; while I expect SAC can run the resulting website; responsibility for the content is something to consider. The website committee had too broad a "do everything" mandate to be successful / attract volunteers. Perhaps an outreach "user focused" website will do a better job of attracting volunteers.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
5. Find out what the outreach committees, projects, local & regional chapters and events need and expect from MarkCom.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I expect those interested in marketing/message are already present on this list; perhaps we can do a call for volunteers when we have a mandate?</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
6. For OSGeo outreach, start with thinking of which domains are high-potentials for outreach.<br>
Broadcasting to 8 billion Earthlings isn't useful, narrowcasting to specific groups (open source but not-yet geospatial developers & users, open data owners and users) makes more sense.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I was thinking more geospatial not yet open source potential users makes sense :)</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the thoughtful discussion <span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Gert-Jan</span></div></div></div></div>