<div dir="ltr">Hey Folks<div><br></div><div>What's the audience for the event? Do we have someone going who can present on our behalf?<br><br>If we sponsor, then we should attend. I don't know much about the event.</div><div><br></div><div>I do think we should do a small sponsorship for Locate in May this year, and I emailed the CEO to ask about an MOU with them too. Might handball that to you now Eli...<br><br>Anyhow, Im tentative on support for Geocart. +0 from me!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 at 11:44, eli via Oceania-Board <<a href="mailto:oceania-board@lists.osgeo.org">oceania-board@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Those are good considerations, thanks John.</div><div>Cannot remember right now the expenses for grants of the past years, but we rarely get the 5k mark (unfortunately). I'd like to rump it up though a little bit, see the OKR of this year (Still to be discussed). <br></div><div>I do think sponsoring GIS events should be one of our priorities where possible, as it does help a lot with the community growth and engagement, and New Zealand, albeit not one of the priority countries, is a difficult one to win. So letting them know we're here and happy to sponsor initiatives could help.</div><div>But at the same time, I'm not financially wise and would happily get the finance committee to say their point of view on the matter.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno gio 18 gen 2024 alle ore 11:37 John Bryant <<a href="mailto:johnwbryant@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnwbryant@gmail.com</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks Elisa, it sounds like an interesting opportunity! I have a couple of financial questions I think we should consider:<div><br></div><div>I'm looking at our budget and seeing we have a "Grants and sponsorship" line item, in the amount of $5000. It looks like this is meant to include our grants program. What's our current expenditure against this item? </div><div><br></div><div>What's our overall position for the year? Alex mentioned at the last meeting we may be running at a small loss.</div><div><br></div><div>It feels like we have enough cash in the bank to make a call on this but more generally I'd like to get a better feel for how we're tracking.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>John</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 at 13:27, eli via Oceania-Board <<a href="mailto:oceania-board@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">oceania-board@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(255,255,255)" dir="auto"><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(255,255,255);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div style="font-size:1rem;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(212,212,213);color:rgb(212,212,213)" dir="auto"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue""><span style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;float:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49);display:inline">Hi Board,</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(212,212,213)"><font style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><br></font><div style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto">Greg has just let me known that Geocart <span style="font-size:1rem;font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue"">is on again in Wellington in August and we could probably discuss to sponsor it- a few known names in the Committee, too!</span></div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto"><a href="https://cartography.org.nz/geocart2024" style="font-size:1rem;font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(66,133,244);color:rgb(66,133,244)" target="_blank">https://cartography.org.nz/geocart2024</a></div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";font-size:1rem;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto">It would be good to be a Silver Sponsor - it gives us a chance to speak, and promote OSGeo (2 minutes speech before keynote, a booth, logo etc, see pdf for more info) but also Bronze could work. It is very likely that Esri/Eagle will be a Platinum sponsor, so this this will give us a good opportunity to counter any spin ;-) (and Sarah Bell is a keynote)</div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";font-size:1rem;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto">As there is only 2 sponsor spots we probably need to move quickly so I’m happy to create a pool on Loomio if you find the idea worth of discussion.</div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";font-size:1rem;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto">Thoughts?</div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";font-size:1rem;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto">Cheers</div></div></div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";font-size:1rem;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto">Elisa</div></div><br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Potrebbe andar peggio...potrebbe piovere<a>!</a><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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