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

[Dirk Frigne]

Daniel,

I fully agree with your opinion.
+1

Dirk

On 16-12-16 04:23, Daniel Kastl wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 12:19 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com
> <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     think we have a cart before horse here - I would not expect a
>     breakdown of costs until there are quotes to work against?
> 
>     To arrive at this number in the last marketing
>     <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Meeting_2016-11-25> meeting
>     Jeff went through some examples he had negotiated for prior
>     projects. Jeff and Marc were also comparing the price in their
>     respective neighbourhoods for this kind of work.
> 
>     From the notes:
>     - marketing plan
>     - branding guide
>     - website templates (cms, wiki, sphinx, etc...)
>     - help migrating the content
>     - collateral for exhibit packs
> 
> 
> 
> I fully agree with Jody's first sentence.
> But I also think that an estimated budget of 70.000 USD is totally
> realistic ... if your neighborhood is where the board members live or
> people involved in this discussion.
> 
> The point is, that 150 USD is maybe the hourly wage for a developer in
> North America or Europe, but it can be an average monthly salary elsewhere.
> I thought OSGeo is a global community, so why not ask local chapters to
> ask in their local communities, if someone or a group of people would be
> interested to work on this continuously and make a living out of it?
> Companies outsource work like website development to places, where
> development costs are lower, but OSGeo doesn't need to "outsource" to
> unknown subcontractors. We just need to ask to the communities, if
> someone would be interested and get paid for it. There is no reason that
> this needs to be done in North America or Europe.
> 
> I would find it bad to pay a rather large amount of money in one year
> (only), then maybe having not enough budget the next years to maintain
> the site.
> There is nothing worse than a one-times investment and then let the
> website get outdated over years. If we start with too high costs, the
> maintenance costs will probably remain high as well.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel 
> 
> 
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