[Board] Reviving the OSGeo Marketing Committee?

[Daniel Morissette]

 Note that its not 30$ for checks. The checks are included in monthly fees. 
Its the wires that cost 30$ with the current bank

Daniel


Le 19 septembre 2014 17:09:41 Michael Smith <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com> 
a écrit :

> As we transition to a new bank, that cost will drop (or even go away). Wire 
> transfers would still probably have some cost but checks should be free or 
> near so.
> Michael Smith
> Remote Sensing/GIS Center
> US Army Corps of Engineers
>
> > On Sep 19, 2014, at 4:54 PM, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> 
> wrote:
> > >> On 2014-09-19 5:44 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> >> We have a few things to address in OSGeo marketing:
> >> 1. We don't have an efficient micro-payment system, for say paying
> >> someone $100 to cover costs of printing a few fliers for a local foss4g
> >> event. (I think each cheque costs $30 to write).
> > Interesting, I wasn't aware of the $30 cheque issue.  I wonder if there 
> is some other way to avoid this cost.
> > >> >> 2. We need to revamp our wiki, probably throw away most existing
> >> content, as it is too hard for anyone to work out what is/is not in
> >> scope for marketing funding. We need to replace with clear guidelines
> >> and priorities.
> > I agree with the full cleanup / starting over.
> > >> >> 3. As highlighted at last foss4g, USB printers often are not competent
> >> enough to print bootable USBs. (OSGeo-Live USBs are one of our key
> >> marketing tools). So we probably need to find a trusted USB printer,
> >> then get them to ship to worthy causes.
> >
> > Boy Cameron you are right on that one.  Other OSGeo-Live leads like 
> BrianH and Angelos both told me in Portland that we, OSGeo, should be 
> finding one single distributor for bootable USBs, test a small batch with 
> them, then distribute to all events from that one distributor - exactly 
> what you just said here.
> > -jeff
> >
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