[OSGeo-Discuss] Recruiting OSGeo Santa Clause(s)

[Cameron Shorter]

OSGeo needs help distributing money to worthy causes. We need an OSGeo 
Santa Clause.

The current state of play is:
* The OSGeo Board has allocated budget for an OSGeo marketing committee 
to distribute.

* But, our OSGeo Marketing committee has imploded. (I was the last 
chair, a few years back). It seems no one is interested in the 
administrative tasks of giving away money, doing the administrative work 
of writing cheques, being accountable, deciding which requests get 
funded verses which don't based on a set of guidelines.

My take is that handing out money to worthy marketing causes can't be 
too important, as it is not bugging anyone enough to want to step up and 
volunteer to fix it. But I'd be delighted to proven wrong, and see some 
people volunteer to step up to revitalise the OSGeo marketing committee. 
If you are possibly interested, please speak up. I'd be happy to help 
you get started.

A first task would be to consider this request from Bob.

Warm regards, Cameron

On 9/03/2016 6:29 am, Jody Garnett wrote:
> Sounds like an amazing event, marketing committee should have a budget 
> to work against shortly (it is an agenda topic for this week and you 
> can see the budget 
> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Operational_Budget_for_2016> 
> on the wiki ).
>
> Cameron is involved with both marketing committee and OSGeo live and 
> should be able to assist.
>
>
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 8 March 2016 at 08:59, Bob Basques <bbasques at sharedgeo.org 
> <mailto:bbasques at sharedgeo.org>> wrote:
>
>     All,
>
>     I haven’t heard anything back on the following request from anyone
>     (other than Jody commenting about where this should be sent . . .).
>
>     So trying again . . .
>
>     --------------------
>
>
>
>     All,
>
>     First, let me know if this is the wrong list to request from.
>
>     We’re holding a regional Geo conference and would like to include
>     a OSGeo-Live thumb drive in each attendees goody bag.  So, please
>     consider this an official request for funding of OSGeo Live Thumb
>     Drives for the event.
>
>     This is a multi- discipline, multi-state event for all things
>     Geo.  60 confirmed presenters.  This will be a highly knowledgable
>     audience and because of the varied subject matter it will be an
>     excellent venue to get the word out to new folks about OSGeo and
>     it’s mission, via the OSGeo Live project.  More info about the
>     event can be seen here:
>
>     www.umgeocon.org <http://www.umgeocon.org>
>
>     We’ve planned for 350 attendees.  We can make our own thumb
>     drives, and/or pay to have them made ourselves. We’ve handed these
>     out in the past and will also include a getting started cheat
>     sheet for each user to get them going with the least amount of
>     effort.
>
>     I haven’t checked lately for the going rate on these. Local
>     suppliers are advertising ~$5 each for an 8GB USB3.0 blank drive.
>
>     Request is for $2000 ($1750 for Drives, $250 for copying the OSGeo
>     Live suite to each).
>
>     Related, my submission of the OSGeo Live presentation has been
>     accepted at the event, and there will also be a (free) GeoMOOSE
>     workshop.
>
>     bobb
>
>     -- 
>     Bob Basques
>     bbasques at sharedgeo.org <mailto:bbasques at sharedgeo.org>
>     612.598.9210 <tel:612.598.9210>
>
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     Board mailing list
>     Board at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:Board at lists.osgeo.org>
>     http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Board mailing list
> Board at lists.osgeo.org
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board

-- 
Cameron Shorter,
Software and Data Solutions Manager
LISAsoft
Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009

P +61 2 9009 5000,  W www.lisasoft.com,  F +61 2 9009 5099

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20160315/3b923a76/attachment.html>