[FOSS4G2016] "Geo4All - MapStory Challenge" - FOSS4G 2016 Student Competitions

[Marc Zakelijk]

All

Let's not invent the wheel again.

In order to keep costs down for participants, sponsorship is necessary. Discussion on what is appropriate or not....may be democratic....but sponsors in our little part of the universe tend to be quite subdued (if they are professionals, they know what culture applies) unlike the Coca-Cola's of this world ;-)

So please trust the common sense of LOC and sponsors and Board in this.

Frankly, if Till and LOC are required to discuss every single item related to 'Bonn' we collectively burn him and his' out before year's end.

However, help/support/money/time is much appreciated. So, getting back to GertJan's question. What do we miss in the list of sponsorable items;
- shirts
- posters
- mailings
- site (incl affiliates)
- coffee breaks, lunches, dinners
- bags
- workshops, preso's, BOF's
- prizes, awards
- program
- flyers

So far the effort to achieve 'a free lunch' (pun intended).

To open up another can of worms; the key question is 'who do we/you want to see, meet, hear, approach, learn from, teach, buy from, sell to, exchange with' in Bonn?


Vriendelijke groet,
Marc Vloemans


> Op 1 okt. 2015 om 17:05 heeft Gert-Jan van der Weijden <gert-jan at osgeo.nl> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Interesting thought, though, to identify "sponsorable" objects: awards, catering (plates, coffecups), venues and rooms, tracks, etc.
> OK, perhaps "Google Gala Dinner" and "Esri Ice breaker" give a bit of a bad taste in the mouth. What about "Gala Dinner, presented by Google"?
> 
> In sports this is a common phenomenon in several countries: e.g. Barclays Premiership for Englands soccer competition, Croky Cup for the Belgium soccer cup. In Germany it's less common I guess. The "Bundesliga" is still "Bundelsliga" without a sponsor-prefix.
> 
> But not just in sports, also in congresses it's not uncommon to have a sponsorship even for individual talk or keynotes.
> 
> Just curious: any other thoughts on what we regard as acceptable items to be sponsored?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> GJ
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Daniel Kastl <daniel at georepublic.de> schreef:
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>> Hi Bart,
>> 
>> I think every conference sponsorship prospectus offers the sponsorship
>> of certain events, so a company could pay for the lunch of a code
>> sprint, etc..
>> 
>> The Geocat developer award was maybe a very smart way of marketing,
>> but it didn't exclude any project.
>> But if you take for example the "Nasa World Wind Challenge", then I
>> would assume that to participate I need to make use of this software,
>> and that's the issue some have with the Geo4all challenge if it's
>> named after a project.
>> 
>> Maybe it's worth to think about, if an award or event needs to have
>> the sponsors name be a part of the title. I wouldn't be so excited
>> about a FOSS4G where we have the "Google Gala Dinner", an "ESRI Ice
>> Breaker" or a whatever else you can think of, especially if the
>> sponsorship amount is relatively low.
>> 
>> But I'm not against sponsors and awards!
>> 
>> Daniel
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 01/10/15 22:45, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
>>> I also did not see the whole discussion, since foss4g2016 got
>>> included late in the game, so apologies if this has been discussed
>>> before.
>>> 
>>> There was a Geocat student award in Seoul or not, since Geocat
>>> sponsored it.
>>> 
>>> What’s wrong with companies / not-for-profits sponsoring specific
>>> student awards if they pay extra sponsorship money for it? If they
>>> sponsor, I don’t see a problem with their name ending up in the
>>> award / competition.
>>> 
>>> Best regards, Bart
>>> 
>>>> On 01 Oct 2015, at 15:41, Jeff McKenna
>>>> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> In fact Daniel that was my very first response to Suchith, about
>>>> 50 emails ago.  If you can champion that, work with Suchith to
>>>> explain, that would be very helpful.
>>>> 
>>>> -jeff
>> 
>> 
>> - --
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