[OSGeo-Conf] RfP FOSS4G2024

[Jeroen Ticheler]

This is a very valid point Maria! 

The current structure is not a nice one for sponsors to OSGeo. For my business it makes total sense to only sponsor events. They provide most of the visibility, not the listing on the OSGeo website (with the lowest sponsorship level you basically have the same visibility as a diamond sponsor since the list is randomly visualised) or at the footer of an email. While I would personally prefer to sponsor OSGeo directly. But that does not provide any benefit to my company when we want to also sponsor an event like FOSS4G. So we only sponsor events to get the best exposure. In short: If we were to sponsor OSGeo directly, I would like to see a very attractive option to be/become a conference sponsor instead. This is not the current situation. It would be a lot better to have something like a base sponsorship to OSGeo and then the right to be an event sponsor at the same level with a minimal extra investment, like 5% of the regular event sponsorship fee. (consider that just appearing at a conference with a booth & people is costly in itself). It will create long term relationships between OSGeo and (some) sponsors. One time sponsors to events would pay the full sponsorship fees instead.

Cheers,

Jeroen






---- On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 11:22:56 +0100 María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com> wrote ---







On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 11:17 AM Luca Delucchi <mailto:lucadeluge at gmail.com> wrote:





Il ven 16 dic 2022, 10:31 Adam Steer <mailto:adam.d.steer at gmail.com> ha scritto:


Perhaps another solution is for OSGeo to decouple 'FOSS4G' and 'main
 source of OSGeo funding'. If we are not relying so much on profit from
 FOSS4G every year, then it seems we open a lot of opportunities for
 putting FOSS4G in other more often. I'm really interested to hear your
 thoughts about that - is it something we can achieve as an
 organisation in 2023? Is it something we *should* aim for?





I agree on this, but how? 

This is a hard topic and should be discussed together between the board and conference committee





This has been on the table for several years now, trying to push companies to sponsor OSGeo directly instead of through the FOSS4G. Right now a company's sponsoship in OSGeo is the sum of your sponsorship to local events, main foss4g, and the money you give directly to OSGeo. 



We don't want companies stopping sponsoring events. But at the same time we don't want to get all the money from the events.



Maybe we need a sponsorship committee.



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