<div dir="ltr">+1 Peter<div><br></div><div>Sorry I haven't had time recently to be directly engaged in this, but thanks to all of you who have been for pushing this ahead.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Cameron Shorter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Thank you Jeff, Jody and Marc for explaining the rigour you have
followed.</p>
<p>My vote is +1, which is in line with my trust in the people
involved and their prior track record, the process set up, and
description of how it was followed.<br>
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Cameron<div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div class="m_554573271777173961moz-cite-prefix">On 9/3/17 12:36 pm, Jody Garnett wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">We may want a seperate thread for this one Cameron;
should we take your response as a +0 :)
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<div>+1 - Get Interactive - treated us (and this project) with
respect, handling their communication seriously demonstrating
a great work ethic in both their EOI and RFP responses. They
were not the most visually impressive response; but they more
than made up for this with communication and consideration.<br>
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<div><br>
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<div>It has been a bit of whirlwind so I am trying to remember
what I did:</div>
<div><br>
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<div>- Took part in the EOI creation, rewriting some sections
around how projects are presented (to make it less confusing
between osgeo projects, community projects and incubation)</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>- Reviewed the EOI responses and attended some discussion
meetings; as part of this meeting I made some notes capturing
the pros and cons of the responses, and voted for the four
short-listed organizations.</div>
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</div>
<div>- Helped craft the "EOI response" letters sent out to short
listed firms, using the notes above to both encourage
respondents and to highlight areas where the committee wanted
more information</div>
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</div>
<div>- Quickly reviewed the proposals with Helena (at a local
GIS conference). This review formed the core of a comparison
between proposals ("EOI/RFP Comments and Feedback" document),
that was added to be Antia, Jeffrey, Marc and others on both
the marketing and board lists.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>- Tried to make a "Comparison RFP" spreadsheet of the
responses (wanted to double check the proposals for any
variances - such as cutting scope from their financials and
not noting it as a variance). This did not prove super useful;
but the high level comparison of costs helped me at least.</div>
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</div>
<div>- Attended a meeting to select a firm, the "EOI/RFP
Comments and Feedback" document was updated over the course of
the meeting to help guide negotiations. Specifically we
captured for each firm</div>
<div>a) what would be need from the firm? <i>example
demonstrate an understanding of scope</i></div>
<div>b) what would be needed internally from OSGeo? <i>example
volunteers in the same timezone</i></div>
<div>c) what questions do we have for negotiation? example: <i>Content
migration appears unrealistic - can you explain your
approach.</i> </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>- Helped "proposal response letters" to the two firms
selected for Q&A interview - questions composed from the
above document.</div>
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<div>- I was only able to attend on of the Q&A interviews; I
was quite impressed by the selected firms questions for OSGeo,
and work ethic they displayed in their EOI and RFP. I also
appreciated Jeffrey and Marc's representation of OSGeo and our
interests.</div>
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<div>- I was able to talk to Marc about the second meeting,
while he got answers to the above questions (thanks Marc). The
firm in question did not match Get Interactive for being
prepared.</div>
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<div>Over the course of the above I did my best to keep osgeo
board in the loop; sending the above notes and documents
osgeo-priv, and highlighting the correspondence as they were
saved into dropbox. I think I also managed to email <a href="mailto:discuss@osgeo.org" target="_blank">discuss@osgeo.org</a>
and ask for more volunteers to take part :)</div>
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<div>If anyone on the marketing committee (or osgeo board) needs
a copy of the notes referenced above give me a shout. Doing
this commercial-in-confidence stuff really conflicts with our
"open all the things" mantra at OSGeo.</div>
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<div>Jody Garnett</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 8 March 2017 at 15:46, Cameron
Shorter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div class="m_554573271777173961m_-5420119860143546378moz-cite-prefix">Thank
you to all who have put in a significant effort in
pushing through on this website re-branding activity.<br>
For transparency, and to demonstrate the rigour that has
been applied to this process, could I please ask each
person who has been involved to explain the depth of
your involvement in your assessment, and why you agree
with this motion (or not). I will then vote based on my
trust of the process and my trust that the individuals
involved have followed the process.<br>
<br>
To start:<br>
* I reviewed the RFQ that was developed and sent out,
along with the proposed process. I was impressed with
the professionalism of both. I am familiar with the
individuals involved with this selection process, and
have been impressed over the years with their clear
thinking, ability to suggest good ideas, their follow
through on making things happen and professionalism.
Assuming they confirm that they have continued to be
thorough in their process, and confident in their
selection, I shall back their decision.<br>
<br>
Warm regards, Cameron
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On 09-Mar-17 10:08 AM, Marc VLOEMANS wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Dear
Marketing List,</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Thanks
to the unrelenting energy of the Marketing
Committee en members of the Board, I have the
pleasureof asking you for approval of our choice
of agency to conduct the Rebranding and Website
Project for OSGeo: GetInteractive (for examples
of their previous work see <a href="http://www.getinteractive.nl/" target="_blank">www.getinteractive.nl</a>)</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">I
herewith ask you formally to approve the choice
for GetInteractive as the agency that will
execute the Rebranding and Website Project as
previously described in the EoI and RFP. Please
do so before Saturday 12.00 noon CET. This
allows the committee to draft the contract and
collect Board signature in order to have the
agency start the project in time.<br>
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<div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Some
back ground on the process:</div>
<div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">- we
cast our Call for Expression of Interest as
widely as our network and channels allowed</div>
<div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">- we
received 4 serious EoI's, which all were invited
to send in a proposal</div>
<div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">- of
these, 2 were shortlisted based on price and
project scope</div>
<div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">-
GetInteractive was chosen as the winner, based
on critical items such as:</div>
<div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">pricing,
experience with community-sites, quality of
reference projects, comprehensiveness of their
proposals, user-friendliness and technical
specifications of proposed CMS, their experience
with open source, realisme of planning and
efforts, demonstrated professionalism in the
EoI/RFP process and such.</div>
<div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br>
</div>
<div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">We
have 'happily' drawn upon Jeffrey's particular
experience in the CMS-field and he has
volunteered to manage the project on our behalf.
Jody's eye for detail and process has kept us on
track as the overall planning needed to be met.
Therefore I feel we have achieved the best
value for our money and can safely enter the
next stage in the project.</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Again,
I wish to thank all involved in a process that
has been executed meticulously but (thankfully)
fast enough to have our revamped brand and
website in place well before FOSS4G2017 to
immediately benefit from it.</div>
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<div>Kind regards,<br>
<br>
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Marc Vloemans<br>
<div><br>
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