[Marketing] Exhibition Pack

[Cameron Shorter]

Paul,
Looking at past events with OSGeo representation we have:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Past_Events

Skiming through and counting only one year for each past event, I get 
between 25 and 30 events which have had an OSGeo presence.

Maybe that is a number we should be targeting, however I suspect that if 
we set up an easy to use conference pack, we will likely get more 
requests for the pack as people start branching out into smaller or less 
related events.

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 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
>>> P: +1-250-277-1621
>>> M: +1-250-303-1831
>>>
>>>
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