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

Tue Mar 15 13:39:08 PDT 2016

Thanks Cameron & Nick, could you start outlining a "reboot" on the wiki and
grab an agenda item for next months board meeting? We also have a
hangout/workparty for board members (and officers?) in case you want some
companionship shaping the wiki page.

--
Jody Garnett

On 15 March 2016 at 04:38, nicolas bozon <nicolas.bozon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Cameron, Marketing Committee, OSGeo Directors,
>
>
> As a member of the so called "dormant" Marketing Committee, i would be
> glad to help revitalising it.
>
> In fact it hasn't been a satisfactory nor confortable situation to be a
> member of such a forgotten commitee since 2012.
> So i'd like to volunteer for championing such committee reboot, and
> propose to help define strategic changes, recruit new members and tackle
> some of the administrative tasks.
> I can also chair the Committee if needed, and if this is appropriated for
> gathering the troops. Cameron, I am not Santa (but 'Klaus' only:)), but I'd
> be very glad to learn from your experience and we may try to enhance things
> together.
>
> However,i think the commitee's mission and role should be revised,
> probably indepth modified, and aligned with the new OSGeo plans.
> My main point is that the mandate of the OSGeo Marketing Committee must go
> way beyond the funding of OSGeo events and the managment of consumables or
> swag, as it mostly did (or not) until now.
> OSGeo Live is one of our best marketing tool to showcase some of the
> Foundation's software projects, but not to promote and market the
> Foundation itself IMHO.
> OSGeo Live must of course be kept inside a new marketing plan, but the
> latter shouldn't be built on DVDs and events only.
>
> According to me, improving OSGeo Marketing globally is one of the most
> important and urgent action to be taken according to the new strategic plan
> defined by the Board.
> It must help OSGeo to be presented as more matured, more inclusive, more
> professional, and fully considered by the broader geospatial community.
>
> I believe such reborn Marketing Committee should work closely along with
> the Board of Directors, the Website Committee and a few motivated
> contributors, in order to:
>
> - Define a consitent OSGeo identity from existing material (including
> revised graphic guidelines, new shapes and colors aligned with identified
> needs and recent web trends, new scalable vector graphics, web fonts ...)
> - Refine the OSGeo web identity (including main site redesign through the
> developement a new drupal theme, responsive webdesign, efficient and
> reusable visuals...)
> - Enhance OSGeo web content and presence (including blog, journal,
> newsletter and bring more activity on various social networks)
> - Market the OSGeo brand online and at all kind of events (including
> consumables management, viral marketing, direct marketing...)
>
> Such actions could be prioritized and voted by the Committee's members,
> coordinated by the commitee's chair according to the Committee members, and
> aligned with the allocated budget and volunteered time.
>
> I sincerly hope we can reboot and improve our Marketing Committee
> together, in order to grow and market our Foundation better.
> Let us talk, decide and act now ! Enough rest for MarkCom' !
>
> Best regards,
>
> Nick
>
> 2016-03-15 8:42 GMT+01:00 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>:
>
>> 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> 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>bbasques at sharedgeo.org
>>> 612.598.9210
>>>
>>>
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