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That could be a specific Committee, but also the Board, the CRO (in case of elections) etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Just my 2 cents<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Gert-Jan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Van:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>Namens </b>Massimiliano Cannata<br><b>Verzonden:</b> vrijdag 18 maart 2016 12:12<br><b>Aan:</b> Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl)<br><b>CC:</b> OSGeo Discussions<br><b>Onderwerp:</b> Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recruiting OSGeo Santa Clause(s)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks Gert-Jan for the clarification.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I have some questions that I cannot answer myself not being an expert:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>- Who design the website graphic? <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>- Who decide the content?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>- Who decide the structure of the website?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>From your previous mail I understand this is a task for the MarkCom (strategy), while WebCom only implement it (informatic work).<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Did I understand correctly?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Maxi<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>2016-03-17 12:45 GMT+01:00 Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl) <<a href="mailto:gert-jan@osgeo.nl" target="_blank">gert-jan@osgeo.nl</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all,<br><br>The website is a tool, just as OSGeo-Live is a tool.<br>The 2 committees (WebCom and MarkCom) are closely related.<br><br>In my opinion MarkCom set the goals and probably defines what tools are needed to reach these goals.<br>WebCom makes sure one of these tools is up and running.<br>That requires different skill, which makes it a valid choice to keep the 2 committees separated.<br><br><br>Regards,<br><br>Gert-Jan<br><br><br><br>Venkatesh Raghavan schreef op 16-03-2016 7:53:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On 3/16/2016 3:00 PM, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think that nicolas ideas are fully right. Website is one of the<br>best<br>marketing tool.<br>Maybe making one committee from two dormient make one awake... could<br>we<br>consider to join webcom and marketing in a new one?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>I also think that merging web and marketing committees would make a<br>lot<br>of sense.<br><br>Best<br><br>Venka<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Maxi<br>Il 15/Mar/2016 21:39, "Jody Garnett" <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>> ha<br>scritto:<br><br>Thanks Cameron & Nick, could you start outlining a "reboot" on the<br>wiki<br>and grab an agenda item for next months board meeting? We also have<br>a<br>hangout/workparty for board members (and officers?) in case you want<br>some<br>companionship shaping the wiki page.<br><br>--<br>Jody Garnett<br><br>On 15 March 2016 at 04:38, nicolas bozon <<a href="mailto:nicolas.bozon@gmail.com" target="_blank">nicolas.bozon@gmail.com</a>><br>wrote:<br><br>Dear Cameron, Marketing Committee, OSGeo Directors,<br><br>As a member of the so called "dormant" Marketing Committee, i would<br>be<br>glad to help revitalising it.<br><br>In fact it hasn't been a satisfactory nor confortable situation to<br>be a<br>member of such a forgotten commitee since 2012.<br>So i'd like to volunteer for championing such committee reboot, and<br>propose to help define strategic changes, recruit new members and<br>tackle<br>some of the administrative tasks.<br>I can also chair the Committee if needed, and if this is<br>appropriated for<br>gathering the troops. Cameron, I am not Santa (but 'Klaus' only:)),<br>but I'd<br>be very glad to learn from your experience and we may try to enhance<br>things<br>together.<br><br>However,i think the commitee's mission and role should be revised,<br>probably indepth modified, and aligned with the new OSGeo plans.<br>My main point is that the mandate of the OSGeo Marketing Committee<br>must<br>go way beyond the funding of OSGeo events and the managment of<br>consumables<br>or swag, as it mostly did (or not) until now.<br>OSGeo Live is one of our best marketing tool to showcase some of the<br>Foundation's software projects, but not to promote and market the<br>Foundation itself IMHO.<br>OSGeo Live must of course be kept inside a new marketing plan, but<br>the<br>latter shouldn't be built on DVDs and events only.<br><br>According to me, improving OSGeo Marketing globally is one of the<br>most<br>important and urgent action to be taken according to the new<br>strategic plan<br>defined by the Board.<br>It must help OSGeo to be presented as more matured, more inclusive,<br>more<br>professional, and fully considered by the broader geospatial<br>community.<br><br>I believe such reborn Marketing Committee should work closely along<br>with<br>the Board of Directors, the Website Committee and a few motivated<br>contributors, in order to:<br><br>- Define a consitent OSGeo identity from existing material<br>(including<br>revised graphic guidelines, new shapes and colors aligned with<br>identified<br>needs and recent web trends, new scalable vector graphics, web fonts<br>...)<br>- Refine the OSGeo web identity (including main site redesign<br>through the<br>developement a new drupal theme, responsive webdesign, efficient and<br>reusable visuals...)<br>- Enhance OSGeo web content and presence (including blog, journal,<br>newsletter and bring more activity on various social networks)<br>- Market the OSGeo brand online and at all kind of events (including<br>consumables management, viral marketing, direct marketing...)<br><br>Such actions could be prioritized and voted by the Committee's<br>members,<br>coordinated by the commitee's chair according to the Committee<br>members, and<br>aligned with the allocated budget and volunteered time.<br><br>I sincerly hope we can reboot and improve our Marketing Committee<br>together, in order to grow and market our Foundation better.<br>Let us talk, decide and act now ! Enough rest for MarkCom' !<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Nick<br><br>2016-03-15 8:42 GMT+01:00 Cameron Shorter<br><<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>>:<br><br>OSGeo needs help distributing money to worthy causes. We need an<br>OSGeo<br>Santa Clause.<br><br>The current state of play is:<br>* The OSGeo Board has allocated budget for an OSGeo marketing<br>committee<br>to distribute.<br><br>* But, our OSGeo Marketing committee has imploded. (I was the last<br>chair, a few years back). It seems no one is interested in the<br>administrative tasks of giving away money, doing the administrative<br>work of<br>writing cheques, being accountable, deciding which requests get<br>funded<br>verses which don't based on a set of guidelines.<br><br>My take is that handing out money to worthy marketing causes can't<br>be<br>too important, as it is not bugging anyone enough to want to step up<br>and<br>volunteer to fix it. But I'd be delighted to proven wrong, and see<br>some<br>people volunteer to step up to revitalise the OSGeo marketing<br>committee. If<br>you are possibly interested, please speak up. I'd be happy to help<br>you get<br>started.<br><br>A first task would be to consider this request from Bob.<br><br>Warm regards, Cameron<br><br>On 9/03/2016 6:29 am, Jody Garnett wrote:<br><br>Sounds like an amazing event, marketing committee should have a<br>budget<br>to work against shortly (it is an agenda topic for this week and you<br>can<br>see the budget<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><<a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Operational_Budget_for_2016" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Operational_Budget_for_2016</a>><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>[1]<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>on the wiki ).<br><br>Cameron is involved with both marketing committee and OSGeo live and<br>should be able to assist.<br><br>--<br>Jody Garnett<br><br>On 8 March 2016 at 08:59, Bob Basques <<a href="mailto:bbasques@sharedgeo.org" target="_blank">bbasques@sharedgeo.org</a>><br>wrote:<br><br>All,<br><br>I haven’t heard anything back on the following request from anyone<br>(other than Jody commenting about where this should be sent . . .).<br><br>So trying again . . .<br><br>--------------------<br><br>All,<br><br>First, let me know if this is the wrong list to request from.<br><br>We’re holding a regional Geo conference and would like to include<br>a<br>OSGeo-Live thumb drive in each attendees goody bag. So, please<br>consider<br>this an official request for funding of OSGeo Live Thumb Drives for<br>the<br>event.<br><br>This is a multi- discipline, multi-state event for all things Geo.<br>60<br>confirmed presenters. This will be a highly knowledgable audience<br>and<br>because of the varied subject matter it will be an excellent venue<br>to get<br>the word out to new folks about OSGeo and it’s mission, via the<br>OSGeo Live<br>project. More info about the event can be seen here:<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.umgeocon.org" target="_blank">www.umgeocon.org</a> [2]<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br>We’ve planned for 350 attendees. We can make our own thumb<br>drives,<br>and/or pay to have them made ourselves. We’ve handed these out in<br>the past<br>and will also include a getting started cheat sheet for each user to<br>get<br>them going with the least amount of effort.<br><br>I haven’t checked lately for the going rate on these. Local<br>suppliers<br>are advertising ~$5 each for an 8GB USB3.0 blank drive.<br><br>Request is for $2000 ($1750 for Drives, $250 for copying the OSGeo<br>Live<br>suite to each).<br><br>Related, my submission of the OSGeo Live presentation has been<br>accepted<br>at the event, and there will also be a (free) GeoMOOSE workshop.<br><br>bobb<br><br>--<br>Bob Basques<br><<a href="mailto:bbasques@sharedgeo.org" target="_blank">bbasques@sharedgeo.org</a>><a href="mailto:bbasques@sharedgeo.org" target="_blank">bbasques@sharedgeo.org</a><br>612.598.9210<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Board mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Board@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">Board@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Board mailing<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal>listBoard@lists.osgeo.orghttp://<a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board" target="_blank">lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>--<br>Cameron Shorter,<br>Software and Data Solutions Manager<br>LISAsoft<br>Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,<br>26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>P +61 2 9009 5000, W <a href="http://www.lisasoft.com" target="_blank">www.lisasoft.com</a> [3], F +61 2 9009 5099<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br><br><br><br>Links:<br>------<br>[1] <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Operational_Budget_for_2016" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Operational_Budget_for_2016</a><br>[2] <a href="http://www.umgeocon.org" target="_blank">http://www.umgeocon.org</a><br>[3] <a href="http://www.lisasoft.com" target="_blank">http://www.lisasoft.com</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Massimiliano Cannata</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>Professore SUPSI in ingegneria Geomatica</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>Responsabile settore Geomatica</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>Istituto scienze della Terra</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=IT style='font-size:9.0pt;color:gray'>Dipartimento ambiente costruzione e design</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=IT style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>Campus Trevano, CH - 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