[OSGeo Finance] Marketing Budget complete

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Hi all,

The marketing committee debated, modified and approved their budget  
breakdown [1] at our meeting yesterday. [2] We had some good debate,  
a couple common items came up.

For now the budget shows general categories, more detailed workplans  
for each project will be developed as we start to tackle them.  In  
some cases we don't have enough details for "how" something will be  
done or "how much" we can do until someone takes responsibility and  
pursues learning more.

We also included a general idea in which quarter of the calendar the  
funding will be spent, so you can have an inkling of cash flow  
issues.  Generally speaking it's 50/50 split between first and last  
half of the year, but many will be spread out over the entire year.   
I don't anticipate any large expenditures for the next few months  
though.  Several items can be scaled up/down depending on funding  
availability, so I see it as a flexible budget that we will revise if  
the need arises.

It was observed that with the broad mandate and items to be addressed  
by the Marketing Committee, this amount of funding is not  
superfluous.  We hope that it will be enough to get a few strong  
projects completed and getting a good start on a few others.

The question of web site development/updates was also discussed.   
There is interest in having access to the unused $10k that was  
budgeted for this purpose for 2008.  If that became available, we  
would find a way to use it.  Or should we just consider that the this  
unused item was already rolled into our $50k for 2009?

Hope this is useful, we're looking forward to getting on with the tasks!

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Meeting_2008.12.11#Minutes
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Budget_2009

Tyler