<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Maxi are you concerned about the impression being listed on the sponsors page provides? The board has never approved a "gold sponsorship", it looks like this was something negotiated on the conference-dev list as part of accepting the proposal.</div></div><div><br></div><div>With respect to OSGeo taking financial risk, and being host of the the event. I like how it is handled forĀ .<a href="http://foss4g-na.org">foss4g-na.org</a> - "An event by OSGeo" would be appropriate.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Personally: this is a tricky one because of how we setup foss4g a little bit at arms length, accepting bids from local organizing committees that have gathered to gather to run the event. I do not mind OSGeo being listed as a sponsor, if we choose to sponsor the event in order to have booth space. I would love if we paid for that up front in order to not put the LOC out financially. In this sense I do feel that FOSS4G is a collaboration between OSGeo (taking financial risk) and LOC (doing the work, and taking a risk putting time into the application process). Since the LOC provide the feet on the ground I do sometimes feel that OSGeo is a guest at these events, especially when the AGM is hard to schedule.</div><div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 July 2017 at 01:22, Massimiliano Cannata <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch" target="_blank">massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Dear community and board members,<div dir="auto">Today I found out that OSGeo is a a SPONSOR of the FOSS4G-2017 Boston conference.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is disappointing me !</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">At least for two reasons:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1- foss4g is the OSGeo's conference, so OSGeo is the host not a guest (have you ever seen AGU sponsoring it's annual event?)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">2- OSGeo is already providing seed and risk exposure money so it shouldn't need to pay for get exposure or being listed in the sponsor page.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So, as an OSGeo charter member, I formally ask the board to remove OSGeo from the sponsor list !</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards</div><div dir="auto">Maxi</div></div>
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