[Board] sponsorship proposals

[Jody Garnett]

Okay I will drop the small business idea, and lower the bottom price point
to 500.  I would still like to maintain the other aspects of Option A and
will combine the proposals.

--
Jody Garnett

On 24 November 2015 at 07:00, Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com>
wrote:

> I agree with Jeff that we should not bring number of employees or revenues
> into the equation. That is just too complicated. Option B is just fine, it
> maps well to what we've done for FOSS4G for years, and as long as their is
> a 500-1000$ entry level option for small businesses, that is enough from my
> point of view.
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> On 2015-11-24 2:37 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
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