[Marketing] Application for funds

[Eli Adam]

Having an official looking banner, table cloth and other items (like
reference in these links:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Operate_OSGeo_Booth and
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2011_OSGeo_Booth) can really help a
local chapter by looking official, well organized, and part of a
larger international organization.  These items (provided by OSGeo a
few years ago in our case) have greatly helped the local PDX-OSGeo
chapter.  I think that Cameron's idea of a starter pack is a good one.

Greetings from Portland, Oregon.

Eli

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Cameron Shorter
<cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Arnulf, Daniel,
> The next steps for the (currently sleeping) marketing committee are:
> 1. Find out from the board how much money is available for marketing
> activities.
> 2. Based upon such allocation of money, specify a strategy on how this can
> be spent. Ie, what is considered in scope and what is out of scope.
>
> As background, conferences are expensive to support and sponsor, and each
> country has 10 or more key conferences they could attend per yer, and there
> are 100s of countries.
> Typically:
> * Booth cost for the conference, including a free ticket or 2, is ~ $4K. If
> you cry poor, you can sometimes get a booth for free.
> * LiveDVDs cost ~ $2/DVD, = $1K per conference. So far, we have only handed
> out DVDs to conferences where the conference organisor pays for the DVD (out
> of delegate price)
> * I'm not counting travel costs yet
> * So to support conferences around the world, we are looking at around $5K x
> 100 x 10 = $5 Million. I suspect we don't have that much spare cash floating
> around?

I offer a different opinion of the math based on our experiences which
are after a few years conferences often seek us out to give us a free
table/booth or even a whole track.

>
> As a starting point, I suggest we provide each chapter with a "Basic Starter
> pack" of non-consumables as per:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Exhibition_Pack
> Something up to $1K per local chapter. It will then be up to the local
> chapter to work out how they find funds to support their local events.
> (Crying poor is a very effective ploy, especially as Open Source is a very
> desirable stream in many conferences and the organisors want us there).
>
>
>
>
> On 4/04/2012 11:00 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> thanks for asking here. We are currently without chair in the
>> Marketing Committee but this should not prevent us from becoming
>> active. If necessary we will bump it up to the OSGeo board.
>>
>> We have a budget for Marketing items and supporting Local Chapters is
>> high on our agenda. I include Daniel Morissette (our treasurer) in
>> this mail in the hope that he can tell us how this works.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Arnulf
>>
>> On 04.04.2012 11:09, Willy Bakker wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> December 2011 we started the Dutch local chapter, OSGeo.nl. Our
>>> first big event will be the Geospatial World Forum (GWF) hosted
>>> 23-27 april in Amsterdam. OSGeo.nl has put together an open source
>>> track for the GWF. We will also present ourselves at the
>>> exhibition. We'd like to have good marketing materials, like a
>>> banner, an overview poster and Live DVD's (we already have business
>>> cards and leaflets). I'd like to apply for funding, as OSGeo.nl
>>> doesn't have any funds or sponsors of it's own yet. Can you please
>>> tell me how we can obtain funding? We estimate that we need 900
>>> euros (= approximately 1200 USD).
>>>
>>> Best regards, Willy Bakker
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