[Board] Proposal: sponsoring LocationTech Tour 2014

[Andrew Ross]

Cameron,

Sounds like you may be happy then. Talks on OSGeo projects and initiatives are welcome & encouraged independent of sponsorship. For the record projects and initiatives from OGC, Apache, OSM, Mozilla, unaffiliated, and others are welcome & encouraged too. 

The tour is open to all.

Andrew

On June 12, 2014 12:12:18 AM CEST, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>I've just referred back to our osgeo priorities, to see if this type of
>
>sponsorship fits:
>http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Support_initiatives_which_support_themselves
>If OSGeo were to be sponsoring, I'd be hoping that OSGeo would have the
>
>opportunity to have greater visibility than a logo in a sponsors page. 
>If local OSGeo talent can be drawn upon to provide a presentation, or 
>man a booth or similar, I'd consider that to be the value that we would
>
>be looking for.
>
>Andrew, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on that topic.
>
>On 12/06/2014 4:48 am, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>> Hi Anne, Andrew, all,
>>
>> I really feel the local community is so important, so these
>> mini-conferences or regional events are the lifeline of our
>community.
>>   I am all for sponsoring this and other smaller events. I'd like us
>to
>> be more open to spending on these type of smaller events.  (I try to
>> attend as many smaller events as I can)  I'm a strong +1
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2014-06-11, 8:42 AM, Anne Ghisla wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> LocationTech Tour 2014 has already started, and is today in
>>> Geneva: http://tour.locationtech.org/2014/
>>>
>>> Last year's 6 event tour drew 723 people and received much positive
>>>   feedback. The original 6 cities are back again for 2014 along with
>>> new ones, and a greater crowd is expected to take part to the
>>> tour.
>>>
>>> OSGeo has the opportunity to sponsor the whole tour for 2k $, as it
>>> is a guest member of LT.
>>>
>>> Shall we discuss this at tomorrow's Board meeting? Andrew, in cc,
>>> could answer our questions per mail and perhaps join the meeting.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Anne
>>>
>>>
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