<div dir="ltr">Sorry this email got stuck on the marketing committee mailing list for most of the week, I should of moved discussion over here earlier.<div><br></div><div>If anyone can find the original motion forming the marketing committee it would be appreciated.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 December 2016 at 13:11, Jody Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>The marketing committee is in the process of reforming and would like to ask for a mandate (similar to what has been provided in the motion to form the <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Motion_to_form_Conference_Committee" target="_blank">conference committee</a>, <a href="http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/IncubatorMotion.html" target="_blank">incubation committee</a>, ...).</div><div><br></div><div>The revamped committee seeks responsibility for:</div><div>* growing our community with new users</div><div>* establish a marketing strategy</div><div>* providing support for events</div><div><br></div><div>Specifically for 2017 we are willing to take responsibility for:</div><div>* Reboot the OSGeo website in time for the FOSS4G Boston event</div><div><br></div><div>Discussion:</div><div><br></div><div>The priority is set at growing our user base. Projects and code sprints are already handling outreach to developers with or without a geospatial background. Educational outreach is being handled by GeoForAll.</div><div><br></div><div>The market strategy is used to prioritize and guide our outreach activities. It is expected we will need to identify user communities and address any issues they have in adopting or migrating to an open source solution. A hey aspect will be identifying metrics to measure performance of the marketing strategy.</div><div><br></div><div>The website is a key component in outreach and a roadblock on many of our ideas for a marketing strategy. With this in mind the marketing committee (given a mandate by the board) is willing to take "point" on rebooting the OSGeo website. Given the scope of the undertaking we would use our volunteers to negotiate this work with an external agency, rather than rely on volunteer labour. We expect to work in close collaboration with the system administration committee in refining a "request for proposal" and selecting the resulting organization.</div><div><br></div><div>The marketing committee focused on user outreach and will be using <a href="http://osgeo.org" target="_blank">osgeo.org</a> as a communication channel for this end. We recognize that each OSGeo group or committee is responsible for their own communication needs: the OSGeo board provides press releases, projects offer release announcements, events handle their publicity etc...</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_6329595405657119260gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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