[Live-demo] about osgeo and sponsors

Mon Jun 19 07:12:29 PDT 2017

I am sure marketing can help every 10 years when we change branding :) More
seriously you are doing a great job contacting projects, if committee want
a say they will need to step up.

For example feedback about mission and vision should of been communicated
by the board last year. The same for changing sponsors.

Right now the marketing department is fielding questions about printing
osgeo live USB sticks, and is not set up with enough budget for that in
2017. For next year the osgeo live project may wish to set its own budget.

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 5:06 AM Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jody,
>
> Thanks for the review.
>
> One thing that makes me a little nervous is any gradual increase in
> baseline tasks delegated to the OSGeo core time, especially when we have
> just gone through a de-scoping exercise within OSGeo-Live to bring our
> level of effort back to our volunteer capacity.
>
> If OSGeo-Live is ear-marked to be part of the OSGeo marketing channel,
> then perhaps future hired help for marketing can be allocated for reviewing
> and updating relevant OSGeo-Live pages (eg the list of OSGeo sponsors).
>
> More comments inline.
>
> On 19/6/17 3:21 am, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>
> Thanks Jody for the review.
> We had started this discussion for the 10.5 release and we did not find
> the time for a pull request.
> We should update this page for the 11.0 release, actually I am going to
> open a blocker ticket for this.
>
> On 06/17/2017 09:08 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>
> Reviewing the page:
>
> - https://live.osgeo.org/en/sponsors.html
>
> I had a question about the sponsors listed, are they all current sponsors?
> Or is that a lifetime achievement award. Also one of the images appears be
> broken, perhaps for the australian government office of spatial data
> management?
>
>
> This sponsor list is not reviewed very often, most of these sponsors are
> associated to the PSC members:
> https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/commits/master/en/sponsors.rst
> e.g. last update was to rename Lisasoft as Jirotech.
>
> Some comments:
> 1. In my opinion, OSGeo, DebianGIS and UbuntuGIS should be lifetime
> sponsors.
>
> +1 Cameron
>
> 2. For several years, NTUA and UCDAVIS host 2 servers for us to release
> our alpha/beta/nightly iso files:
> http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/
> http://osprey.ucdavis.edu/downloads/osgeo/gisvm/gisvm/
>
> +1 Cameron
>
> so we should keep listing them as long as we use those servers (I am open
> to move those files to OSGeo infrastructure as long as there is enough disk
> space).
> 3. Jirotech has sponsored Cameron's time for maintaining the documentation
> and initial packaging. We should consider that the last years Jirotech is
> not supporting packaging (perhaps we should remove that part of the
> description?). I would like to hear from Cameron if this is an ongoing
> sponsorship of his time or if he is spending personal time on this project
> nowadays.
>
> Suggest changing words to something more generic:
> Jirotech supports staff contribute to the core management and development
> of OSGeo-Live.
>
> 4. I would like to make a motion to remove the Australian Government’s
> Office of Spatial Data Management as a sponsor, since I have not heard from
> them for many years now and I am not aware of any recent sponsorship to the
> project.
>
> +1 Cameron. The Australian Government's Office of Spatial Data Management
> has actually been merged into another department, so can be dropped from
> the sponsor page.
>
> 5. Okeanos is still providing 2 virtual machines that we use for the build
> and release process of OSGeo-Live.
>
> +1 Cameron
>
>
>
>
>
> The description of the OSGeo Foundation should include our vision -
> "empower everyone with open source geospatial". Seehttp://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html
>
>
> +1
>
>
>
> The description under "The OSGeo Foundation" mixes the foundation and the
> live gis description. I think you may need to move the following text up
> further in the page, or add a new heading?
>
>
> +1
>
>
> *This Live GIS disc and virtual-machine has been put together by members of
> the OSGeo community to showcase their favourite Free and Open Source (FOSS)
> geospatial software. We’ve included a number of non-OSGeo software
> packages, GIS focused and otherwise, which we hope you will find to be as
> useful as we do. The OSGeo Foundation does not recommend or guarantee any
> associated software, projects, or companies found within.*
>
> *These programs are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but
> WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
> or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.*
>
>
> The list of "OSGeo Supporting Sponsors" is out of date:
>
>
>    - Supporting sponsors is no longer a category, we have bronze, silver,
>    gold, platinum tiers.
>       - See http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship for details
>    - The sponsors listed for 2017 are here -
>    http://www.osgeo.org/content/sponsorship/sponsors.html
>    - The diamond and platinum sponsor logos are intended to be listed on
>    all promotional material
>       - Can we confirm that OSGeo Live is considered a "Key OSGeo marketing
>       materials"?
>       - diamond/platinum sponsors for 2017 are GeoCat and Boundless (and
>       now Digital Globe and IBM if they wish to be cross listed as osgeo
>       sponsors).
>
>
> We need to align with the current OSGeo sponsorship scheme.
>
>
> The sponsorship "perks" are rewritten each year, so if the OSGeo Live
> project would like to adjust any of the above expectations for 2018 please
> make a motion and we can change things up.
>
> Keep in mind that OSGeo Live sponsors can be cross linked as osgeo sponsors
> (any contirbutions they make to the project adds to their total for osgeo
> sponsorship).
>
>
> In our case, how can we measure the value of the sponsorship, since we do
> not receive money from the sponsors?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Angelos
>
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
>
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> Charter Member
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