[Marketing] my 2 cents on spending funds (was: Website Redesign)

[Lorenzo Becchi]

This year the spanish language chapter grown a lot and debates on the 
future of our community started to be more and more practice.

as part of the spanish language board (board-es) I've participated to 
interesting meetings on how to spend some possible funds.
we still have no budget but we are willing to (dreaming is still not a 
pity, afaik).

one of the things we have focused is what we are doing, as chapter or 
osgeo,  differently from what the single projects do.
they do software, it's clear, and what about us?
I've heard a couple of critics out there about this.

A dream for us would be to spend some funds on that kind of initiatives 
we have started but would need a professional support to boost.
- the free GIS book. Who doesn't want it?!?
- a well done catalog of educational material (see universities curses) 
available online in CC and translated in as much languages as possible.
- to see the journal supported in a way to have precise publishing 
deadline and translations ready.

we know all this initiative are already up and running, we started some 
of them, but they suffers of continuous stops and it's not easy to see 
an end.
this are a kind of things that a discontinuous professional support can 
improve a lot. I guess it is the same for some SAC tasks and so on.

we are hoping to deal with this sponsorships inside our community but I 
would like to share our ideas, hoping to refine them and/or find 
external support.

ciao
Lorenzo





Lorenzo Becchi wrote:
> I feel absolutely stupid because I've lost this conversation just to 
> be filtered by my mail client to the marketing folder...
> it will not be the last time I'll feel stupid. :-)
>
> If I can say my opinion, I don't see the need for a re-factory of the 
> web site.
> If you look at the web site of Apache foundation, as ex, they have a 
> very simple site: a brief mission definition, news, section, links to 
> all resources.
> same as ours.
>
> I don't even see a problem to use google.com to access internal pages. 
> I use google.com for most of sites where I don't want to learn yet 
> another fancy structure for a site that has a lot of contents. having 
> a lot of contacts is a problem in any case.
> I would not like to see the google search inside the site instead.
> Not even google analytics. Been a web master for long time has taught 
> me to avoid scripts that are not fundamental on popular sites.
>
> my 2 cents
> Lorenzo
>
>
> Jason Birch wrote:
>> A LOT of that was Jody, so it's good to hear that he has renewed
>> interest in the Marketing committee.
>>
>> It's out of date, but there is still value there.
>>
>> Jason
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Cameron Shorter
>> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 11:40
>> Subject: Re: [Marketing] Website Redesign
>>
>> +1
>> Jason, I think you are right on track, and I'm really impressed with the
>>
>> webcom Site Focus page linked below. (First time I've read it). It 
>> provides the use cases required to design targeted web pages.
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