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

[Marc Vloemans]

Before handing out money to undoubtedly worthy causes...a marketing (which is more than just the promotional 'P' ) plan would be the usual starting point. Agreed upon by the Board and with input from all.

So. Why is what is given to whom, when and to what amount? Effectively; what precedes a marketing committee.

Unless, a plan/framework is in place, Santa Claus/Easter Bunny/Tooth Fairy/etc. can expect to receive a lot of flak. Groups and initiatives have no clue as to what (governable) rules to comply with. Besides all sorts of unwanted chaos and misunderstandings can be expected.

By the way, does one also not start to code without some sort of initial and agreed plan?

Any volunteers besides me to have a stab at it?

Vriendelijke groet,
Marc Vloemans


> Op 15 mrt. 2016 om 08:42 heeft Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> 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 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> 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
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 612.598.9210
>>> 
>>> 
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