[Board] Marketing budgets

[Jo Cook]

Hi All,

I'm slightly perturbed by the current flurry of discussion about allocating
funds to OSGeo Local Chapters. When I asked the question on this list on
behalf of the UK chapter a month ago, I was met with almost complete
silence, but suddenly it's OK? While I think the decision to allocate funds
could be made by the marketing committee, we as a board got half way
through a discussion about how marketing could be kick-started when we were
in Seattle and there has been no progress since.

I really think there needs to be some guidelines in place regarding how
these sort of funds should be allocated or there will be resentment from
those that are not given funds. I for one am already deeply uneasy as I
have lost a valuable sponsor of the UK chapter, because the organisation
concerned doesn't see why they should fund the global foundation and the
local chapter, yet the local chapter gets nothing (so far) from the global
foundation.


Thoughts?

Jo

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