[Marketing] Application for funds

[Jeroen Ticheler]

Hi Cameron,

What is it you want to convey with your message? ;-) 

It is clear that OSGeo does not have the means to sponsor an unlimited number of conferences around the world. However, as in the past, we have sponsored events around the world by providing the starter pack you described. What Willy is asking for is indeed money (or materials if they are already available) for such marketing materials so that we can properly represent OSGeo at local conferences in The Netherlands. I think that's a good cause to "sponsor" out of OSGeo Marketing budget indeed.

We are working on making OSGeo.nl a legal entity which in the long run will allow us to attract local sponsors to support marketing and events. But for now we don't have such entity set up while we are in dire need for marketing materials or funds to have them printed locally.

Cheers,
Jeroen

On 4 apr. 2012, at 21:49, Cameron Shorter 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?
> 
> 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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