[Marketing] Communication concept development

[Jeroen Ticheler]

+1 from me, even though that is obviously biased, so feel free to  
ignore!
Jeroen

On Nov 22, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:

> Hello,
> Marketing is starting on the development of a communication concept  
> for OSGeo. To do this a proposal was requested from the people who  
> also did the work around GeoNetwork opensource (Birgit and Ines).  
> In the IRC meeting yesterday it was discussed how to follow up:
> http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2007-11-21.log (11:01:41 onwards)
>
> I wanted to talk to Birgit Aigner before actually voting for going  
> ahead to find out whether we have had any contact before [0], to  
> explain my globalization related concerns[1] to her and to find out  
> whether I trust them to be able to do it. I do. In short, talking  
> to her convinced me that OSGeo should take the proposed path.
> I will meet Birgit in person to start the detailed briefing that  
> she needs to get going. Obviously I will introduce her to what I  
> think is relevant. If you could attend to my FOSS Business Models  
> Talk at FOSS4G you may have an idea of the direction in which this  
> will go. I wrote a mail to Marketing summing up what Jeroen,  
> Michael, Venka, Tyler and many others have brought together wrt to  
> marketing. This will be our starting point. * http:// 
> lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/marketing/2007-November/001582.html
>
> My briefing will also focus on topics related to my lonely advocacy  
> contributions in the Wiki:
> * http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Category:Advocacy
>
> I am somewhat uncertain as to whether this is what OSGeo at large  
> wants though. *And* it is the first time that I come into the  
> situation to actually spend money from OSGeo that I have not  
> collected myself. This might also explain part of my reluctance and  
> potentially unexpected formal way of doing things.
> By virtue of my role a chair of Marketing I am probably entitled to  
> go ahead without more backing but I would like to get at least five  
> +1 from the Board confirming this - or vetoes and directions on  
> what to do instead. If you need more information before you can do  
> this please ask for it.
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Arnulf Benno Christl
> http://www.osgeo.org
> (OSGeo Board Member)
> +50.7342N   +7.0707E
>
> [0] I never met Birgit before and there have not been any  
> commercial activities between us or companies that any of us are  
> involved with.
>
> [1] as a global corporation we have to carefully balance between  
> cost and quality. A Germany based company will probably have the  
> highest costs and thus also higher prices than any other location  
> in the world. So we wondered whether it is a good idea to do this.
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