[Board] Reframe of the discussion: Mandate and Budget request Marketing Committee

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

Massimiliano Cannata wrote
> Actually I have always been a strong promoter of refactoring/refreshing
> OSGeo website which looks really sad to me. And I still want a new
> website.. but not at the proposed costs...
> 
> The point is that 75k is really crazy...
> The whole 1 year OSGeo budget for marketing only? No kidding...
> 
> 50k for design the new website? It really cost 6 months/man work to do it?
> ...and with a salary of 100k a year I expect a professional web
> designer...
> 
> I would expect at least a full breakdown of costs to motivate such a
> request.
> 
> As always this is just another point of view, my angle of course...

I'm supportive to Marc's proposal, as starting half baken and stopping half
the way may be not a good idea; and AFAIU it needs more than just a new
website design.



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Helmut
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