[VisCom] Budget work

[Michael P. Gerlek]

Thank you!

-mpg
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisa Landers (Temp) [mailto:Lisa.Landers at autodesk.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 10:59 AM
> To: dev at visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org
> Subject: RE: [VisCom] Budget work
> 
> I'll start pulling together numbers -- IMHO -- costs are always a good
> thing to have -- can give you a baseline.  More importantly, 
> a business
> plan with budgets are a requirement of obtaining 501.C.3 status.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tyler Mitchell (External) 
> Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 9:42 PM
> To: dev at visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [VisCom] Budget work
> 
> >   (1) costs of logo/branding work
> >
> >   (2) costs of discretioanry swag to date
> >
> >   (3) list of what shows for us to be at remain for 2006
> >
> >   (4) list of expenses per show (as much as possible) for our  
> > events to
> > date
> 
> I will do what I can, but I think it can be a bottomless hole to try  
> to enumerate all the costs.  e.g. the platinum sponsorship for OSCON  
> cost $60k, but that isn't from our OSGeo budget (though it is from  
> Autodesk's internal promo budget, I'm sure).  And Autodesk event/ 
> marketing staff too have done a lot that we would normally have to  
> pay for.  So these are, essentially, significant 'sponsored' events  
> that may be something OSGeo ends up wanting to do directly, or they  
> may be one or two time events to get started, etc. etc.
> 
> I guess it would be helpful to know what it did cost for things,  
> including internal and external/sponsor costs, but how far do you  
> go?  Ultimately if we have a good reason for funding an idea, we  
> should pull the costs together and see if we can make it happen.   
> Knowing what it did cost doesn't mean we'll do it the same 
> way at the  
> same cost in the future... so how can we guess ahead of time?  I  
> think we need to dream big and then define the cost and see if the  
> money is there.  We know the order of magnitude is going to 
> be within  
> the 10's of 1,000's and less than 100k for any given event - is that  
> enough of a range to define things?
> 
> Perhaps you are just generally wondering what different aspects to  
> the events cost on their own?  I.e. printing, booth material/setup,  
> sponsorships, etc?
> 
> Tyler
> 
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