[Fundraising] First Meeting - May 9th

[Dave McIlhagga]

Something else for consideration,

I think one of the best ways to get an organization to sponsor (in 
particular smaller organizations) is to provide a degree of marketing 
benefit such as a restricted space for organization X to describe their 
involvement in open source, and related services they might offer.

So for instance, an organization who provides application development 
services around mapserver, mapguide, geoserver, etc... could state this, 
experience, etc.. and include a link to their website.

This way we offer potential sponsors something very tangible, while not 
compromising the arm's-length direction of the organization.

This allows us to tap into Marketing & Advertising budgets which tend to 
be more accessible then Technology budgets where the direct benefit of 
sponsorship would be less tangible.

It would also help raise profile and credibility for OSGeo through 
sponsorship numbers.

Thoughts?

Dave



Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Gary Lang wrote:
> 
>> Michael,
>>
>> I am in concurrence about the 'general use' comment below. Personally, I
>> am of the mind that the board should clearly decide what to do before
>> deciding how to raise money to pay for "it", and so I'm hoping to work
>> with everyone to nail this together over the next month.
> 
> 
> Gary,
> 
> This seems quite reasonable.  I have added an agenda item for the
> Friday board meeting for this topic.
> 
> Best regards,