[Board] Reviving the OSGeo Marketing Committee?

[Jeroen Ticheler]

Another good option is for OSGeo to have a European bank account. Wire transfers within the eu zone are free. That's a large number of countries where we could potentially save a lot on transfer costs. 
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Jeroen

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> Op 20 sep. 2014 om 01:30 heeft Michael Smith <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
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> 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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> Michael Smith
> 
> US Army Corps
> Remote Sensing GIS/Center
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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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