[OSGeo-Discuss] sponsor benefits

Thu Feb 23 06:17:37 PST 2017

Dear Jody, 

There will be an OSGeo-UN Hackathon on Saturday 1 July - it is a 'Postconference Codesprint / Hackfest / OSGeo-UN Hackathon’ to be hosted at the JCSE (Johannesburg Centre for Software Engineering) see https://foss4g-africa.org/en/programme/. I have CC’d Gavin Fleming who is running with it, and can add more information. 

Also, I’ll appreciate if you could add FOSS4G Africa 2017 to the list under ‘Event sponsorship’ at http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities <http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities>. The conference website is at http://foss4g-africa.org. 

Regards,
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Serena Coetzee

Geography Building 3-5
Centre for Geoinformation Science, Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028, South Africa
email: serena.coetzee at up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis · Mobile: +27 82 464 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823

On 22 Feb 2017, at 19:33, Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it> wrote:

The Hackathon will be organized by Serena and colleagues. 

Serena, please, can you provide more pieces of info in such a way to advertise about it?

Best,
Maria

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Da: Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
Inviato: mercoledì 22 febbraio 2017 16.19
A: OSGeo Discussions
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] sponsor benefits

Website updated - http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities <http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities>

Maria do you have any more details I can link on to on the "OSGeo-UN Hackathon"? I know it was a fund raising target set in January and I would love to have more details to pass on here.

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Jody Garnett

On 22 February 2017 at 09:33, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>> wrote:
So coming out of this meeting there are a bunch of good ideas - but we will need volunteers to run them to ground.

I am going to clean up the web pages a bit:

- http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities <http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities> (need to update this page for 2017 based on http://www.osgeo.org/node/1755 <http://www.osgeo.org/node/1755> blog post).
- http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship <http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship>

Guido are you happy to take on the "networking event" ideas for foss4g? It sounds like you had a b2b event already being planned.

How to handle the OSGeo booth (at foss4g and other events) has been a bit random. I do not know if I should start with the board or the marketing committee.

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Jody Garnett

On 20 February 2017 at 18:47, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>> wrote:
Thanks to those who participated in OSGeo sponsors chat this morning, here are some notes for the email list.

I would like to highlight two common themes:

The organizations represented in the meeting already very generous with their time and resources (even before it comes to question of sponsorship).  We need to reach out to new organizations that are benefiting from the work we do at OSGeo and are not engaging as part of our community.

There is lots that can be done for sponsors, beyond placing sponsor logos on a website. This is something I would ask us all to work on (foss4g global, regional events, projects and our foundation as a whole).

Here are those notes....
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Jody Garnett

Attending:
Anthony Calamito (Boundless)
Jody Garnett (OSGeo Board)
Simone Giannecchini(GeoSolutions) - 
Regina Obe (Pargagon Corporation / FOSS4G Boston)
Michael Smith (OSGeo Board / Treasurer)
Guido Stein (FOSS4G Boston)
Jeroen Ticheler (GeoCat)
Angelos Tzotsos (OSGeo)
1) Introductions

2) Review of what OSGeo currently offers sponsors:
Sponsorship 2017 <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kvlIENiZ3REL6mOhAUuL5UvxfSUJPEcnWERWKfxJTvE/edit?usp=drive_web>
http://www.osgeo.org/node/1755 <http://www.osgeo.org/node/1755>
3) Ideas and Feedback

Simone (GeoSolutions)

Reaching out for sponsors is fine, by why approach the companies on this call, each of which already support OSGeo (often directly contributing time).

Q: Where are the organizations those who profit from this?

Feedback on sponsoring local events, often they just want to accept money and have no futher contact/engagement with sponsors.  Example of sponsoring a local (Italian?) event not considering a GeoServer talk as the project is already too famous...

This is a difficult feedback to address as we do not directly control/influence events put on by local chapters. I would kind of be content for these events to be avoided by sponsors if they cannot be bothered to provide value.

Anthony (Boundless)

Asking OSGeo Sponsorship to look "beyond providing a logo on the website". Look for more opportunities for visibility and promotion.
More press releases (not only the joint press release offered to gold / platinum sponsors). 
Co-branding activities and announcements.
The UN OpenGIS initiative was used as an example; something that both OSGeo and Boundless is supporting and can benefit from cross promotion. 
Maria is our best contact here, we will need to reach out and explore what can be done.
GeoServer is an example of a project that handles cross promotion. Releases of GeoSever take care to link to external blog posts highlighting RnD that went into each release. When new features have been added based on consulting or customer work care is taken to thank the organizations responsible in the release announcement.
Help sponsors to meet customers:
FOSS4G networking event?
OSGeo booth should point people towards sponsor booths as appropriate
Jeroen (GeoSolutions)

Room to improve as new website is created, currently sponsorship is pretty much limited to logo on the sponsors page (two or three pages in), occasionally rotated into feature sponsor position.

At OSGeo events take care to promote sponsors. Example at the OSGeo booth have a sheet on the sponsors available on the table.

Breakout on Ideas

Networking Social. Guido took up this idea with respect to the FOSS4G 2017 Boston event.
Apparently a B2B event is planned, and care can be taken to highlight (or lead) with sponsors at this event.
B2B event "Ignite" presentation sessions
Highlight OSGeo and Event sponsors
Someone (president? foss4g loc?) should get up and thank sponsors during this event
Website
highlights support providers (focused on contributors such as GeoCat, GeoSolutions and Boundless)
improve the visibility of sponsors
Marketing:
blogs - user focused, what is the art of the possible
videos - 
promote beyond open source boundaries (gis anaysists, etc...)
having a presense at difference conferences
guido looking at booth swap conversation with other events

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