[Board] Marketing budgets

[Jo Cook]

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> I think the board only needs to kickstart marketing if it can't
> kickstart itself.  I would suggest you pursue this on the
> Marketing committee mailing list unless you would like
> the board to provide fairly detailed guidance to the marketing
> committee on what is and is not within it's scope of operation.
>

I did raise this on the marketing list originally but  it got bumped to
board level effectively. I might be reading too much into the recent
communications on that list but it looks to me like they are looking for
guidance, and I thought we had made a decision to help revitalise that
committee at the F2F in Seattle.

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> I spoke up because I could see the mounting frustration at
> the lack of responses, and tried to provide a way forward
> that could be pursued.
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> > 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?
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> In my opinion it was always ok, but no one picked up on
> the question and perhaps at that time there was no
> marketing budget established.
>

It was post Seattle, so the overall foundation budget had been established,
but I don't recall us specifically telling marketing that there is now
money for them to use in this way.

Cheers

Jo

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