<div dir="ltr">Asking our community what activities are available for sponsorship has been ... mediocre at best.<div><br></div><div>We have our first sponsorship renewals starting in February - and several key activities are late to the party:<div><br></div><div>- FOSS4G - while esri, google and world bank are listed there is no invitation to sponsor or transparency on sponsorship opportunity and benefits</div><div>- UN Committee - capacity building exercises </div><div>- Conference Committee - travel grant program</div><div><br></div><div>In each case I am looking for a link describing indicating that sponsorship is desired, what sponsorship will be used for, and that sponsorship will be acknowledged. For a gold standard please see <a href="http://zoo-project.org/new/Get%20involved/Sponsorship">http://zoo-project.org/new/Get%20involved/Sponsorship</a> that covers sponsorship "goals", "uses" and "benefits", along with sponsorship plans.</div><div><br></div><div>Sponsorship is a great opportunity to share event costs/risk, provide operational cost to our projects, and support our academic and open data initiatives .. but to make it work your participation is needed.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to Sergio and others that have responded to my initial request.</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 5 January 2018 at 00:03, Jody Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks to everyone who provided estimates for the <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2018" target="_blank">2018 budget</a>, the vast majority of requests were met - but there is still some work to do for planning 2018!<div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Sponsorship_Opportunities_2018" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/<wbr>OSGeo_Sponsorship_<wbr>Opportunities_2018</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The above page is a draft, based on what I could quickly find. Please help identify sponsorship opportunities for 2018 for:</div><div><br></div><div>* committee initiatives - such as the conference committee travel grant program, or the UN committee capacity building exercises</div><div>* events including code sprints and foss4g events</div><div>* local chapters</div><div>* osgeo projects and community projects</div><div><br></div><div>To be listed please update that wiki page with a link to the sponsorship page of the respective initiative, event, local chapter or osgeo project.</div><div><div><div class="m_6206874835005104692gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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