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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">David,<br>
You have highlighted that there are multiple contributing factors
required to ensure an action is successfully completed, and it
appears in the FOSS4G-NA case, the LOC were not sufficiently
supported.<br>
<br>
What is required:<br>
<br>
1. An expectation needs to be set. This often hasn't been clear in
the past, and I'm hoping that our collective ideas will
consolidate and be captured in the FOSS4G Cookbook. (Peter Batty,
David and others, I invite you to add your ideas as <draft>
sections into the cookbook as you think of them. We can get group
review later.)<br>
<br>
2. Marketing material needs to be available. We are in pretty good
shape in this regard, with an OSGeo Exhibition Pack, and the
OSGeo-Live material.<br>
<br>
3. Volunteers at conferences: We can usually source volunteers to
man a booth by asking, and tapping into our OSGeo Advocates page,
or other OSGeo members.<br>
<br>
4. Funding. This can either be sourced from an expectations from
conferences to cover expenses, or from OSGeo Board funds. The
OSGeo Board has allocated $10K to the marketing committee, but
there is insufficient volunteer time available to allocate these
funds. (Lack of process and active volunteers in the OSGeo
Marketing committee is probably our weakest link at the moment).<br>
<br>
<br>
On 07/07/13 07:29, David William Bitner wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I feel that I need to respond to this on list as I
did when this was brought up at the OSGeo Board meeting. While I
whole-heartedly agree with both having a strong OSGeo presence
as well as having a strong presence of the Live Distro, I think
that this discussion is really putting the onus in the wrong
place. Local Organizing Committees already have a lot on their
plate and need to keep their focus on providing a great program
and a great venue for their event.
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<div>In the case of the FOSS4G-NA event -- we did not include
any money in our budget (that went through the Board and
Conference Committee for review) for the creation of Live DVDs
or USB sticks (I will reserve comment on my opinion on the
waste of resources in the creation and default giving out of
things like this to *all* attendees). By the time it was
brought up, we had set our budget and our pricing at which
time I was unwilling to add any outside-of-budget costs. Bob
Basques had brought a request to the OSGeo marketing committee
to provide funds to print a run of these and as far as I know
was denied.</div>
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<div>Further with regards to an OSGeo booth. There was never any
request or anyone volunteering to staff a booth and arrange
for display materials. We had plenty of space available and
would have been excited to have had a stronger OSGeo presence
and would have done everything in my power to make that
happen. Again, I think the critical thing missing here was
movement from "central" OSGeo to help make this happen.</div>
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<div>If we want things like this to be consistent across
different events (FOSS4G or even presence at non-OSGeo/FOSS4G
events) we really need a budget and centralized effort from
OSGeo to help make sure it happens. LOCs have more than enough
on their plates to deal with without adding more items like
these. If we need these events to have higher OSGeo profit
targets to make this happen, then we should include that in
the cookbook (along with OSGeo Marketing/Board or whatever
contacts that LOCs should coordinate with to make these
connections happen).</div>
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<div>FOSS4G-NA has received very mixed messages from the
inception by the DC group with regards to expectations and
even how much the Board and Conference Committees want to have
to do with them (direction to the DC group was "go, do --
OSGeo will give advice and support but this is a regional
event put on by the local community"). Regional events really
need much clearer direction if there are any expectations that
folks are going to have of them. </div>
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<div>Simply put -- if there are expectations of these regional
conferences -- they need to be made crystal clear.
Furthermore, with regards to OSGeo branding and presence at
these conferences, there better be significant support from
OSGeo Marketing to help make that happen. I strongly feel this
should not be the responsibility of the LOCs if we have any
chance of providing a consistent message.</div>
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<div>David (FOSS4G-NA 2013 Chair)<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 10:06 PM,
Cameron Shorter <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>></span>
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and Washington teams,<br>
<br>
A concern was raised at the June OSGeo Board meeting [1]
about the lack of OSGeo branding at the FOSS4G-NA event,
especially in comparison with other brands visible at the
event. (I think there was a public email thread discussing
this, but I can't find it).<br>
<br>
I have also heard a few private concerns (in relation to
OSGeo-Live not being visible at FOSS4G-NA, while it plays a
prominent role in FOSS4G events in other parts of the
world).<br>
<br>
To address these concerns, I invite both Portland and
Washington teams to make a brief statement about OSGeo
branding at FOSS4G 2014. Eg: Will there be an OSGeo booth?
Do you expect that the OSGeo-Live USB (or DVD) will be
handed out to all delegates as has been done at prior
events?<br>
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[1] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2013-06-13</a><br>
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