[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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