[OSGeo-Discuss] sponsor benefits

Wed Mar 8 09:55:50 PST 2017

Visiting the http://foss4g-africa.org website I cannot see any way to
sponsor the event. Do you have any additional information on how much money
you are looking for and what sponsors can expect in return?

I apologize if I am somehow missing this detail from the website.

--
Jody Garnett

On 23 February 2017 at 06:17, Serena Coetzee <serenacoetzee at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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. The conference website is at
> http://foss4g-africa.org.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Serena Coetzee
>
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> Centre for Geoinformation Science, Department Geography, Geoinformatics
> and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028,
> South Africa
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>
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
> *----------------------------------------------------*
> *Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli*
> Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing
> Politecnico di Milano
>
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> Board
>
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>
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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
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 22 February 2017 at 09:33, Jody Garnett <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 (need to update this
>> page for 2017 based on http://www.osgeo.org/node/1755 blog post).
>> - 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.
>>
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>> On 20 February 2017 at 18:47, Jody Garnett <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....
>>> --
>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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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