[Board] sponsor contacts

[Jeff McKenna]

A small business cannot sent a person to a code sprint, and also sponsor 
that code sprint, and then also sponsor OSGeo.  I think we are not 
speaking of the same size of company.  I think you are aiming at larger 
companies, which is great, but, remember who mostly fills our ecosystem.

I think we need to focus right on the Gateway Geomatics, the Spatialys, 
the GeoLabs.....  I want to give these hard working companies the 
spotlight.

-jeff



On 2015-11-19 7:34 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> I managed to write up the 25% discount based small business, repeated
> sponsorship, region - resulting in the following two examples.
>
> Examples:
>
>   * A bronze OSGeo sponsor ($1000 USD) from France chooses to sponsor
>     Paris Code Sprint silver ($1600 USD) and foss4g 2016 supporter
>     ($1600 USD) and is listed as a Silver Sponsor (final total $4200 USD)
>   * A small business form India sponsors a local event ($100 USD) and
>     decides to obtain an OSGeo bronze sponsorship ($462 USD) using two
>     25% discounts (final total $562 USD).
>
> I understand and respect your hesitation with respect a $500 target, I
> feel the discounts above and ability to count local and code sprint
> sponsorship towards OSGeo will help offset your hesitation. When I tried
> the numbers $500 was too low given the amounts listed for paris code
> sprint and foss4g 2016.
>
> So for small Canadian buisness your target is $750, sponsor a local
> event or code sprint and you have brought the cost down to $500. And for
> a subsequent year you start out at $562 ... so I think this will work
> out fine.
>
>
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 18 November 2015 at 22:14, Jeff McKenna
> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>
> wrote:
>
>     Thanks for contacting sponsors Jody.  I still feel that the $500
>     price point is perfect for the majority of our community (small
>     business), so I hope you get good feedback on that optionB proposal
>     (whereas 1,000 USD would be too high for my pockets).  500 would
>     match what I pay for another association.
>
>     By the way, something brand new is email notifications from the wiki
>     (for some reason when Martin upgraded the MediaWiki software
>     recently, all of a sudden, the original e-mail address when
>     registering is used for magical notifications) See below for an
>     attempt by the wiki to send to jgarnett at refractions.net
>     <mailto:jgarnett at refractions.net> ha!  You can update this by:
>
>     - login to the wiki
>     - after login click "Preferences" in the top right
>     - mid-way down the page see "Email options" and beside that a link
>     to "change email address"
>
>     Enjoy :)
>
>     -jeff
>
>
>
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>     On 2015-11-19 5:01 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>
>         I have updated the draft sponsorship page based on the feedback
>         in this
>         thread:
>
>         * https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_2015_Sponsorship
>
>         I find the result much easier to understand, the two proposals
>         are now
>         very close to each other which a good result of this discussion.
>         I will
>         be contacting prior sponsors tomorrow, in part to solicit feedback
>         between proposal A and proposal B.
>
>         Thank you for your patience and participation.
>
>         Jody
>
>
>         --
>         Jody Garnett
>
>         On 12 November 2015 at 14:34, Jody Garnett
>         <jody.garnett at gmail.com <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>>>
>         wrote:
>
>              I would like a hand collecting sponsor email addresses - for
>              everyone on this page
>
>         <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/2015_Sponsorship_Drive_Working_Group>.
>              If you note any likely candidate please add them to the list.
>
>              Two questions:
>              - It is not the best to collect email addresses on a wiki
>         page - any
>              suggestions?
>              - Wanted to ask if it would be rude for us to contact the
>              organizations on the service provider
>              <http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile> page?
>              --
>              Jody Garnett
>
>
>