[Foss4g2010] Sponsorship Prospectus [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Lorenzo Becchi
lorenzo at ominiverdi.com
Tue Nov 24 15:57:53 EST 2009
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) <arnulf at osgeo.org>wrote:
> 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?
>
well explained
thx
lorenzo
>
> 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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