[Marketing] Exhibition Pack

[Michael P. Gerlek]

Finds that number of actual instances, and then multiply by N to account for the folks who have never asked for such a thing because they assumed it did not exist (for values of N in the range of 0.33 to 0.66 I think).

-mpg


-----Original Message-----
From: marketing-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:marketing-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 7:01 AM
To: Cameron Shorter
Cc: OSGeo Marketing
Subject: Re: [Marketing] Exhibition Pack

40 is absurdly huge. Why don't you troll back and actually look at the
email list for instances of people saying "we're doing this
conference..." if it's 20, I'll be surprised.

P.

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:25 AM, Cameron Shorter
<cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Tyler for putting numbers in.
> What we need to complete the budget is a quantity column.
> How many conference packs do we need to create (I reckon 1 per local group =
> 20)?
> And how many conferences do we support per year. Again, I reckon 2 per local
> group per year = 40. Plugging these figures into to the budget and we don't
> leave much budget for anything else.
> Attached is a spreadsheet with a quick sketch at what I'm talking about.
>
>
> Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
>>
>> Following from our last meeting and earlier discussions, there'd been
>> consensus to focus marketing efforts on getting a few primary pieces of
>> marketing material together.  With the intent of having a "pack" of material
>> that could sent to (or downloaded and prepared by) someone wanting to
>> represent OSGeo at an event.  Without addressing the issues of
>> who/what/where could get such a package, we've been focusing on what it
>> might contain.
>>
>> Detailed thoughts were hashed through in our last meeting.  I threw some
>> cost estimates up into a table today.  Please have a look, suggest
>> revisions, etc.
>>
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Exhibition_Pack#Cost_Summary
>>
>> After we a general idea of potential costs (either per component, or
>> overall), then we can plug them into our 2009 budget.   Following that we
>> start talking about preparing the components, deciding how to distribute
>> them, searching for sources, etc.
>>
>> Tyler
>>
>> Tyler Mitchell
>> Executive Director
>> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
>> tmitchell at osgeo.org
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>> M: +1-250-303-1831
>>
>>
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