<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 15 Feb 2016, at 08:54, Paolo Cavallini <<a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it" class="">cavallini@faunalia.it</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Il 14/02/2016 17:08, Tim Sutton ha scritto:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Yeah good points you raise. I guess my point is that if we want to<br class="">represent OSGEO at conferences and events I think it is hard to do it<br class="">with an empty table - and the website doesn’t provide a good backup. So<br class="">it would be really good to figure out how to present a consistent face<br class="">to potential users at events. IMHO marketing should be their top<br class="">projects - honestly most GIS professionals I come across have never<br class="">heard of OSGEO and don’t understand its significance. If OSGEO wants to<br class="">help projects like QGIS they need to start by being relevant and well<br class="">understood. Their value proposition is a ‘trusted brand’ proposition -<br class="">in that they collate the best of breed FOSSGIS into a cohesive<br class="">collection and provide a once stop shop of quality assured projects. But<br class="">that only works if people know and admire the OSGEO brand itself.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Fully agreed. IMHO other marketing options would be better. Videos and<br class="">live slide shows seems more attracting to me. Think about putting a<br class="">screen on the empty table you mention.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yeah that could work. Thanks for your thoughts Paolo.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tim</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">All the best.<br class="">-- <br class="">Paolo Cavallini - <a href="http://www.faunalia.eu" class="">www.faunalia.eu</a><br class="">QGIS & PostGIS courses: <a href="http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html" class="">http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html</a><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Qgis-psc mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><div class=""><span><img height="60" width="60" apple-inline="yes" id="37E6DC7F-91CB-48CA-9CCB-68E67A256F7B" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:DDEF9B12-67C3-4498-BD7D-EC3563CC35A4" class=""></span><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Tim Sutton<br class="">QGIS Project Steering Committee Member<br class=""><a href="mailto:tim@qgis.org" class="">tim@qgis.org</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>