[Foss4g2010] Sponsorship Prospectus [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) arnulf at osgeo.org
Tue Nov 24 12:52:48 EST 2009


All,
having the OGC at FOSS4G in my opinion is a must. But they can probably 
cater for themselves when it comes to funding. Ideally the Sponsorship 
Prospectus will reference that the OGC participates at FOSS4G but not 
specify a separate sponsorship address for them. Makes sense?

Best regards,
Arnulf.

Lorenzo Becchi wrote:
> hi Bruce and Raj,
> I personally consider an honour to have the CCIP event inside FOSS4G2010.
> I consider it a strategic event for both OGC and OSGeo.
> In this moment I need to publish the Sponsorship Prospectus and would 
> like to know what make sense to write into it.
> Please, tell me if you still want to be part of FOSS4G. doors are open 
> for you.
> If you want to participate, I agree about having two different lines of 
> sponsorship. It makes poor sense to me to collect money for OGC. Please 
> provide, ASAP, a text that introduce CCIP 2010 and how sponsors can 
> support it.
> 
> do you still need somebody from the spanish meteo?
> 
> thanks
> lorenzo
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Raj Singh <rsingh at opengeospatial.org 
> <mailto:rsingh at opengeospatial.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Just to add some detail to the conversation. Bruce and I discussed
>     that even if we didn't make CCIP an *integral* part of FOSS4G2010,
>     we would still advocate for OGC and open source CCIP 2010
>     participants to highlight their CCIP 2010 work in FOSS4G 2010
>     workshops, presentations, and booths.
> 
>     ---
>     Raj
> 
> 
> 
>     On Nov 23, at 6:34 PM, Bruce Bannerman wrote:
> 
> 
>         Tyler, Lorenzo and all,
> 
>         I'm sensing some reluctance to have a CCIP type of event at FOSS4G.
> 
>         Raj and I discussed this issue this morning and feel that we don't
>         want to force this event on the FOSS4G community. We want to
>         maintain
>         good relations.
> 
>         We will begin making contingency plans and look at alternate events
>         that we could run a CCIP type of event at.
> 
>         GSDI-12 is one possible alternative. It is also perhaps a better fit
>         for the ideals of the event.
> 
> 
>         Bruce
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>             -----Original Message-----
>             From: foss4g2010-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>             <mailto:foss4g2010-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>
>             [mailto:foss4g2010-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>             <mailto:foss4g2010-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>] On Behalf Of
>             Bruce Bannerman
>             Sent: Saturday, 21 November 2009 10:58 AM
>             To: tmitchell at osgeo.org <mailto:tmitchell at osgeo.org>
>             Cc: 'foss4g2010 at lists.osgeo.org
>             <mailto:foss4g2010 at lists.osgeo.org>'; raj at rajsingh.org
>             <mailto:raj at rajsingh.org>
>             Subject: RE: [Foss4g2010] Sponsorship Prospectus
>             [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
> 
>             G'day Tyler,
> 
>             I will put something together as soon as we're able.
> 
>             I have a call with Raj on Tuesday where we will discuss the
>             best way to answer this. We will be preempting CCIP community
>             discussion. Let me know if you need more than this email in
>             the short term.
> 
>             Suffice to say that we aim to have a much more structured
>             project approach to the 2010 event, with more time for
>             planning and project delivery. I would ideally like to have a
>             one day stream at FOSS4G-2010 dedicated to CCIP-2010 where
>             participants could expose their work in more detail. We have
>             yet to have this conversation with both communities though.
>             We are also aiming for significantly higher sponsorship dollars.
> 
>             CCIP would bring in more revenue to FOSS4G in participants
>             alone, exposing (some) to FOSS4G perhaps for the first time.
>             It will also bring in revenue from Conference facilities etc.
>             There will also be a great additional stream of marketing for
>             FOSS4G-2010.
> 
>             Strategically, FOSS4G will be seen as great community
>             partners of OGC and in doing something positive in the
>             Climate arena to try and make systems interoperable  and to
>             help ensure that the real 'numbers' are available for
>             scrutiny via open standards.
> 
>             I anticipate that the lessons learned will come out of the
>             SWOT analysis.
> 
> 
>             One thing that we would like to pursue with greater vigour
>             this year is to how to get greater Open Source spatial
>             participation in the event.
> 
>             One idea that I'm pursuing is the idea of CCIP Participant
>             partnerships between science communities and spatial
>             communities / vendors. We should be able to achieve this if
>             we target the scenarios right. This may give OS Communities
>             the opportunity to get involved via a 'science' sponsor,
>             perhaps an organisation like my own.
> 
>             Anyway, these are preliminary thoughts that need to be worked
>             through with the relevant communities.
> 
> 
> 
>             Bruce
> 
> 
>             ________________________________________
>             From: Tyler Mitchell [tmitchell.osgeo at shaw.ca
>             <mailto:tmitchell.osgeo at shaw.ca>]
>             Sent: Saturday, 21 November 2009 4:21 AM
>             To: Bruce Bannerman
>             Cc: 'foss4g2010 at lists.osgeo.org
>             <mailto:foss4g2010 at lists.osgeo.org>'
>             Subject: Re: [Foss4g2010] Sponsorship Prospectus
>             [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
> 
>             Hi Bruce, glad to here you've recovered enough ;)
> 
>             For me the CCIP process was a bit opaque - could you give
>             Lorenzo and the rest of us an overview on the main benefit of
>             running the process?  e.g. how did it add value to the FOSS4G
>             event - both subjectively and financially.  And how much work
>             did it require from someone on the LOC?
> 
>             Also, do you have any sort of "lessons learned" compiled
>             anywhere?
> 
>             Thanks!  G'day,
>             Tyler
> 
>             ----- Original Message -----
>             From: Bruce Bannerman <B.Bannerman at bom.gov.au
>             <mailto:B.Bannerman at bom.gov.au>>
>             Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009 4:03 pm
>             Subject: [Foss4g2010] Sponsorship Prospectus [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
>             To: "'foss4g2010 at lists.osgeo.org
>             <mailto:foss4g2010 at lists.osgeo.org>'"
>             <foss4g2010 at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:foss4g2010 at lists.osgeo.org>>
> 
>                 Lorenzo,
> 
> 
>                     hi all,
>                     we've been revisiting the contents of the prospectus.
>                     We've set up prices and other details.
> 
>                     there's still a couple of things, mostly about refining
> 
>                 contents and using
> 
>                     proper English, that should be done.
> 
>                     we invite you all to contribute, in the wiki or in
>                     this list.
> 
>                     the revision time will be until next monday then
>                     we'll pass
> 
>                 the content to
> 
>                     the designer for the final layout.
> 
>                     here's the content of the prospectus:
> 
> 
>             http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2010_Sponsorship_and_Exhibitor_Prosp
> 
>                 ectus>
> 
>                     Lorenzo
> 
> 
>                 I've had a quick look at the Prospectus.
> 
>                 For CCIP-2009, we found that trying to get CCIP
>                 sponsorship for
>                 participants via the Conference Organiser and also OGC
> 
>             didn't work and
> 
>                 was just plain confusing for potential participants.
> 
>                 The FOSS4G CCIP sponsorship package offered very little to
> 
>             potential
> 
>                 sponsors.
> 
> 
>                 In the end, we assigned the responsibility for obtaining
> 
>             sponsorship
> 
>                 dollars to the OGC.
> 
> 
>                 The money that the OGC raised helped run the CCIP project.
> 
>                 A substantial portion of the major CCIP Sponsor's funding
> 
>             came back to
> 
>                 FOSS4G for booth, conference etc fees.
> 
>                 I can give you these figures off line.
> 
> 
>                 In short, I'd leave the CCIP sponsorship arrangements with
> 
>             the OGC and
> 
>                 negotiate suitable costs depending on CCIP-2010
>                 requirements.
> 
> 
>                 I'd say that you will be getting people attending
> 
>             FOSS4G-2010 just to
> 
>                 see the results of CCIP-2010. We will need to ensure that
> 
>             there is a
> 
>                 definite programe of interest presented. So there will be
> 
>             additional
> 
>                 return there as well.
> 
> 
>                 Bruce
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Arnulf Christl
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