[Board] sponsorship update

[Jody Garnett]

Asking our community what activities are available for sponsorship has been
... mediocre at best.

We have our first sponsorship renewals starting in February - and several
key activities are late to the party:

- FOSS4G - while esri, google and world bank are listed there is no
invitation to sponsor or transparency on sponsorship opportunity and
benefits
- UN Committee capacity building exercises
- Conference Committee Travel Grant Program

In each case I am looking for a link describing indicating that sponsorship
is desired, what sponsorship will be used for, and that sponsorship will be
acknowledged. For a gold standard please see
http://zoo-project.org/new/Get%20involved/Sponsorship that covers
sponsorship "goals", "uses" and "benefits", along with sponsorship plans.

Sponsorship is a great opportunity to share event costs/risk, provide
operational cost to our projects, and support our academic and open data
initiatives .. but to make it work your participation is needed.

--
Jody Garnett

On 18 January 2018 at 22:25, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> With some encouragement from Astrid I have updated the sponsorship page
> with 2018 opportunities.
>
> https://www.osgeo.org/about/how-to-become-a-sponsor/
>
> When this list is complete I would like to make a news announcement;
> especially as Gia3D sponsorship expires early February.
>
> There is draft material here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/
> wiki/OSGeo_Sponsorship_Opportunities_2018
>
> Note several events and initiatives are not yet published as they lack an
> appropriate link explaining the value and recognition being offered to
> prospective sponsors. I have a draft of some text to add, waiting on the
> conference committee and un committee.
>
> *Initiative Sponsorship*
>
> *OSGeo undertakes initiatives to pursue our goals as an organization,
> several initiatives have identified fund raising targets for 2018:*
>
>
>    - *The conference committee heads up a travel grant program offering
>       financial assistence to help attend OSGeo events.*
>       - *UN Committee is spearheading a series of capacity building
>       exercises supporting open source adoption through improvements to
>       documentation. This initative encourages young innovators, selecting from
>       competing bids to directly support open source.*
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
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