[Board] Reviving the OSGeo Marketing Committee?

[Michael Smith]

PayPal charges 0.5% to 2% fee on sending international. An international
wire transfer from the back is $30. For the amounts that we send, its
usually cheaper for a wire transfer.

Mike

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On 9/19/14, 7:00 PM, "Cameron Shorter" <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:

>Jeroen,
>A PayPal account is a good idea (and has been suggested before).
>As yet, no one has taken the next step of volunteering to set it up, and
>document a process for how to use it.
>If a volunteer steps forward, I expect:
>1. Board will approve.
>2. Marketing committee will start using it.
>3. Marketing committee will become functional again.
>
>On 20/09/2014 8:49 am, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:
>> 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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