[Board] Reviving the OSGeo Marketing Committee?

[Jeroen Ticheler]

What about running a PayPal account? It also has a cost, but is much lower (a percentage of the sum transferred) and worth for smaller amounts. It also makes it really easy to do a transfer. With GeoCat (and I'm sure many others as well) we have good experience with PayPal for transfers to and from the most remote places where a wire transfer is really expensive.
Jeroen


On 19 sep. 2014, at 23:09, Michael Smith <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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