[Marketing] Marketing meeting summary

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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Marketing Committee,
we had a first meeting [0] and are back in action now. The member list
has evolved, please welcome Peter Batty, Jo Cook and Nicolas Bozon in
the team. Please check the member list [1] and if you think you should
be on it (meaning that you want to participate and help come to
decision) but are not then holler.

Here is a short management summary, for the full log please go through
[2] starting at 20:32:32

First topic was a short update from the board meeting in February,
basically just that the board expressed the will to support reviving
Marketing. Next we updated the committee membership - as already said
above please feel free to pipe up if you want to become part of the
committee & no offense meant if we removed you be accident.

I then suggested that we maybe look at Marketing as a place to
kick-start targeted activities with explicitly formulated objectives
and clear milestones instead of trying to continually improve
everything. Later it was noted that we also need continuity and today
Cameron offered to act as interim chair especially focusing on
managing funds. I'll reword this into a motion in a separate mail.

(This mail is getting too long, but it was a productive meeting...)

We then motioned and voted to fund the Basic Starter Kit for
exhibitions [3] (thanks wildintellect) for the OSGeo.nl Local Chapter
with US$ 600,-

In addition it was suggested that as an incentive to fund the Live DVD
sponsors can use 1/4 of the cover to add "Sponsored by ..." and add
their logo. Don't overestimate how many are needed. If they are not
part of the conference / exhibition pack and only given to interested
people who approach the booth. This maybe needs more dialog here.
Please start in separate thread if you feel the need.

We thought about how to better keep track of events with as low
technical barrier as possible. Some local chaps already do a good job.
We might want to advertize the OSGeo Wiki Categories better and might
even defer responsibilities to Local Chapters. That would spread tasks
more evenly.

There was some chatting wrt FOSS4G 2012 but not much news. The board
will have to follow up in their Thursday meeting. In general OSGeo is
slow and weak to support OSGeo presence at FOSS4G and related events.
How to improve?

Website migration / redesign was mentioned and Alex will put it on the
agenda for SAC. Plus this topic will need more dialog here (Start it
if you are interested).

Seven suggested to rename this committee to "Marketing and
Communication" / MarComm.

The role of OSGeo Ambassador was mentioned but not going into depth.
It could be an official role for OSGeo members to represent the
foundation at events and get some reimbursement for travel costs.
Needs further exploration and regulation.

Motion to close the meeting after 70 minutes.

It was very productive and we will try to keep up the energy, thanks All.

Cheers,
Arnulf

[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Meeting_2012-04-17
[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Committee#Committee_Members
[2] http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2012-04-17.log
[3] Basic Starter Kit

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