[Board] Commercialize OSGeo?

[Jeroen Ticheler]

Hi Dave,
My opinion here was that the formulation below reflects what I  
considered a good way to proceed with Paul's proposal. You could call  
it rushing, I think the discussion went in different directions and  
came back together to something most of us would / could agree upon. I  
maybe wrong here thinking so, but my +1 was just to indicate my  
support for the direction :-) I also think that it is fair towards  
Paul and Jeff to bring this to a close and I'm not sure what we win  
now by waiting/ postponing the discussion. Even tough my previous  
proposal was to not use OSGeo as a brand name, but more as an add-on,  
I can live with Arnulf's proposal. I just think this discussion needs  
a closure, preferably before Friday's meeting.
Refining it to not be restricted to only the teach-in concept makes  
sense indeed.
Ciao,
Jeroen

On Jun 2, 2008, at 9:14 PM, Dave McIlhagga wrote:

> I'm not sure I understand why the rush to put these kinds of  
> policies in place -- by having the board as the "evaluator" of these  
> proposals - we're in a position to make a best decision we can based  
> on the info presented to us for one-of cases such as this OSGeo  
> Teach-in. Once you reach a point where you have a lot of demand for  
> this -- that's really the point at which you want to have a policy.
>
> Maybe it's just me -- but it feels like we're putting the cart ahead  
> of the horse here ... trying to put a policy in place for a problem  
> we're not sure we have.
>
> As it stands - we have a one-of-a-kind proposal in front of us that  
> I think we need to figure out if we support or not - either as is,  
> or with changes the proponents would be comfortable making.
>
>
> If there is a policy to be made -- I'd suggest it be to define a  
> process by which third parties could make a proposal to work with  
> OSGeo (whether for a teach-in, information session, joint- 
> promotional activity, etc...) - and not simply restrict it to this  
> one teach-in concept.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On 2-Jun-08, at 9:37 AM, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:
>
>> +1 from me for these (two) proposals in case we come to make this  
>> the policy.
>> Ciao,
>> Jeroen
>>
>> On Jun 2, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Arnulf Christl wrote:
>>
>>> 2. Make the brand "OSGeo Teach-in" available to sponsors and let  
>>> them run
>>> loose with it. I suggest to request for official feedback from
>>> participants, maybe through some web interface and an option to  
>>> exclude
>>> sponsors that mess up the "OSGeo Teach-in"
>>>
>>> I prefer the second option.
>>>
>>> 2.a. Potential sponsors might want to try out the event type "OSGeo
>>> Teach-in" *before* becoming sponsors to check whether it is  
>>> commercially
>>> viable. I would support this as long as we are still building the  
>>> brand.
>>
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