[Board] sponsorship proposals

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Jody,

If you ask my opinion: there is no need to worry about number of 
employees, which is why I proposed OptionB (1).  As I mentioned earlier, 
my company sponsors another association at the same price point as Esri 
- there is nothing wrong with this, in fact, it benefits both of us.

However I'm only one voice, I am sure you get better feedback from your 
phone conversations with the sponsors.  Please proceed with however you 
wish.  At this point, since past sponsors haven't been invoiced since 
2011, anything is better than nothing.

Thanks,

-jeff

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_2015_Sponsorship






On 2015-11-24 9:27 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> Breaking working group discussion
> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/2015_Sponsorship_Drive_Working_Group> into
> a distinct email thread (formally was sponsorship contacts).
>
> I am starting to get feedback from parties interested in sponsoring:
>
> * https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_2015_Sponsorship
>
> Thus far feedback has been very positive, a little bit of tension
> between sponsoring local events and sponsoring OSGeo.
>
> One question I was not able to handle to my satisfaction was what OSGeo
> would consider a "small business".  My response was based on the country
> an organization resides in. This has not held up in practice
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_and_medium-sized_enterprises>
> Europe 1-50 people, Canada 1-100 people, USA 1-500 people!
>
> I liked the idea of leaving the "small business" with the local tax
> office -
> Jeff if you have a moment what did you want to consider a "small
> consulting shop"
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>