[Board] foss4g marketing [was: facilitating FOSS4G continuity]

[Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)]

> I've been trying to understand how to solve a problem that affects
> foss4g organizers.
>
> At the beginning of his mandate the LOC has no budget. At the end of the
> conference it, hopefully, has a lot of money to give to OSGeo.
> One of the problem we have to face is how to promote the event not only
> on the internet (this costs only time) but physically at events.
>
> Organizing the event in Europe, I find it critical to try to promote the
> foss4g at Inspire's meetings. Next in June.
> Probably having a person from our LOC in Sidney would be important not
> only to present Barcelona but even to get in contact with Cameron & C.
> and brief over many aspects of the conference that you can't write/read
> on wikis.
> OGC's meeting should be targeted too.
>
> These are just a couple of good examples that would worth an economical
> support from OSGeo.
> I think the budget needed for this kind of things is poor respect to the
> money the conference is supposed to give back.
>
> I can put my time but my bank account could not support the rest.
>
> ciao
> Lorenzo
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Last year we bent travel costs that were to be used by Tyler to get
someone from the Sydney team to join up with the ZA team. It was a most
unofficial thing and pulled through at last notice. The reasoning was ~
that we need someone at the OSGeo booth and it would be good to have
someone from the next team look into what the previous team did.

I suggest that we also make this possible for the Barcelona team. If
anybody has a good suggestion which budget to use please speak up.

Its on the board meeting agenda for this Friday.

Why has the conference committee never requested to have a budget for this
kind of thing (hint hint...)?

Best regards,

-- 
Arnulf Christl
President OSGeo
http://www.osgeo.org