[Marketing] OSGeo philosophical support request

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Massimiliano Cannata wrote:
> Dear marketing committee,
>
> with this mail I'm officially asking a philosophical support of OSGeo
> for the XII GRASS and FOSS4G meeting of the Italian Language users.
>
> The event will be held in Lugano (South Switzerland) on the 10-11-12
> February 2010.
>
> The organization is coordinated by myself (Massimiliano Cannata) with
> the support of gfoss.it users (actually the Italian local chapter) and
> the historical Italian users of GRASS (Zatelli, Brovelli, Ciolli, etc.).
>
> The program includes workshops, invited talks, and presentations.
>
> In the case I will be the contact for OSGeo for this event
> (massimiliano.cannata [] supsi.ch).
>
> In the case of acceptance of this request I think that some
> arrangement to enhance OSGeo visibility is required (market material).
>
> Thanks,
> Massimiliano
>
> P.s.:
> - Monetary support is not request but as always is more then welcome
> (just the coffee break expenses are needed)
> - For those who don't know me (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maxi71):
> Massimiliano has a P.h.D. in Geodesy and Geomatic and is member of the
> GRASS PSC and participate to the OSGeo activity since the first join
> meeting in Bangkok between GRASS and Mapserver and presented to all
> the OSGeo meetings with different contributions.
> I was one of the Funding member of the Italian OSGeo Chapter and its
> first liason officer.
>
Thanks for bringing this to the list,

I know this event is typically well attended and run by many OSGeo
members, so I support this request.   It'd be great to be listed as a
supporter of the event.  There are some further thoughts on here that
may apply - in particular a follow up report would be nice to have to
show how OSGeo support helped:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Event_Management

On another note, any local chapter should feel free to say that they are
doing or supporting something, without having to come to ask the OSGeo
marketing committee.  In that case, just make sure it's clear that the
"local chapter" is doing it and not say it is OSGeo in general.  Hope
that makes sense..  In this case I support either approach - any
thoughts from others on the list?

Tyler