[Marketing] First Latin American Conference of Free and Open Source GIS

[Alex Mandel]

I agree that use of the logo in conjunction with a sponsored/supported
by statement would be an allowed use of the OSGeo logo.

The marketing committee should probably vote to endorse the conference
but there's no hard rule on that.
+1

Thanks,
Alex

On 07/16/2012 10:50 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Maria,
> "Sponsored" usually implies that money (or in kind support) has been
> provided by the sponsor. I suggest that "Supported by OSGeo" would be a
> better description.
> 
> On 17/07/2012 3:39 PM, Maria Brovelli wrote:
>> Dear Cameron
>> Many thanks. We'll wait 24 hours for knowing if it possible to use the
>> logo. In case, is it correct to write :  "sponsored by OSGeo" and put
>> the OSGeo logo?
>>
>> For point 2 I will discuss it with the OSGeo local chapter (OSGeo Es).
>>
>> Best.
>> Maria
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>> On Jul 17, 2012, at 3:19 AM, Cameron Shorter
>> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Maria, with your permission, I'm expanding my response to include the
>>> marketing and conference email lists.
>>>
>>> A question which I'd like to address as a separate thread is the
>>> development of guidelines to answer these standard questions, which I
>>> suggest can be included in the proposed FOSS4G Cookbook.
>>>
>>> Answers to questions inline:
>>>
>>> On 17/07/2012 5:09 AM, maria.brovelli at diiar-topo.polimi.it wrote:
>>>> Dear Cameron
>>>>
>>>> I'm writing  to discuss with you the initiative of First Latin
>>>> Amrican Conference of Free and Opens Source (already presented in
>>>> the discussion list and discussed in the last Board meeting).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Premises are that the conference will be organized by ESPOL,
>>>> Ecuador, with the help of Politecnico di Milano (me and my
>>>> researchers) and OSGeo Es (Mauricio Miranda an others) and the
>>>> sponsorship of Risk Management Ministry of Ecuador.  Some members of
>>>> OSGeo already agreed on being members of the Scientific Commitee of
>>>> the Conference (for instance Arnulf Christl). Below the current list
>>>> of members of the Scientific Committeee. The event is not an OSGeo
>>>> conference but the sponsorship of OSGeo is welcome.
>>>>
>>>> If OSGeo wants to support the initiative because that initiative
>>>> could be interesting for improving knowledge and usage of FOSS4G
>>>> solutions in Latin America, in my opinion three possibilities can be
>>>> taken into account:
>>>>
>>>> 1) OSGeo makes available the logo and monitor the event through
>>>> people involved in the Scientific Commitee and OSGeo Es
>>>> (sponsorisation with no economical involvement). OSGeo proposes
>>>> other people to be inserted in the Scientific Commitee.
>>> I'm answering this question in my role as chair of the OSGeo
>>> Marketing committee.
>>> I'm not aware of clear guidelines regarding whether a conference is
>>> allowed to make use of the OSGeo logo, and at some point we should
>>> create such guidelines.
>>>
>>> However, as you describe this conference as an Open Source
>>> conference, which will include a geospatial focus, I believe that it
>>> is appropriate to make use of the OSGeo logo.
>>> Should someone on the marketing committee disagree with this call,
>>> then please speak up within the next 24 hours.
>>>
>>> Maria, if there are no objections within 24 hours, then consider this
>>> email as approval to make use of the OSGeo logo on your website.
>>>> 2) OSGeo runs a booth at the Conference, providing materials and
>>>> people to stay at the booth. The space for the booth is free of charge.
>>> You are welcome to set up an OSGeo booth. I'm assuming you will be
>>> able someone to coordinate and attend the booth?
>>> Note that local chapters can request funding from OSGeo to build up
>>> the non-consumable items of an OSGeo Exhibition pack:
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Exhibition_Pack
>>>
>>> You can send a request to the OSGeo Marketing committee for this.
>>>
>>>
>>>> 3) OSGeo sends someone at the Conference, who presents OSGeo to the
>>>> floor.  That person can make the presentation and run the booth
>>> You may approach potential speakers for this.
>>> Keynote speakers are usually either drawn from existing attendees (no
>>> cost to conference) or the conference budget covers the travel
>>> expenses of the keynote speaker.
>>>
>>> You can look for potential speakers here:
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate
>>>
>>>> In few days the Conference website will be ready and therefore it is
>>>> important for us at least to know if the hypothesis 1 is suitable.
>>>>
>>>> Obviously hypotheses 2 and 3 are stronger and OSGeo visibility is
>>>> more evident.
>>>>
>>>> Our desire is to have Arnulf in Ecuador (if he has time to do that
>>>> and OSGeo supports  its travel) because he is fluent in Spanish and
>>>> for sure representative for OSGeo.
>>>>
>>>> Let us know how OSGeo can contribute to our initiative, please.
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks in advance!!!
>>>> Cheers.
>>>> Maria
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Scientific Committee
>>>>
>>>> Maria Antonia Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
>>>> maria.brovelli at polimi.it
>>>>
>>>> Songnian Li, Ryerson University, Canada    snli at ryerson.ca
>>>>
>>>> Venkatesh Raghavan, Osaka City University, Japan
>>>> raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp
>>>>
>>>> Bert Veenendaal, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
>>>> B.Veenendaal at exchange.curtin.edu.au
>>>>
>>>> Suzana Dragicevic, Simon Frasier University, Burnaby, BC, Canada   
>>>> suzanad at sfu.ca
>>>>
>>>> Rafael Moreno, University of Colorado Denver, US
>>>> Rafael.Moreno at ucdenver.edu
>>>>
>>>> Gustavo Barrantes, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA)
>>>> gbarrantes at gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> Bernard Herrera,  Universidad Autonoma Chapingo, Mexico
>>>> hh_bernard at hotmail.com
>>>>
>>>> Helena Mitasova, North Carolina State University, US
>>>> helena_mitasova at ncsu.edu
>>>>
>>>> Suchith Anand, University of Nottingham, UK
>>>> Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk
>>>>
>>>> Massimiliano Cannata, Istituto Scienze della Terra, Switzerland
>>>> massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch
>>>>
>>>> Arnulf Christl, President OSGeo, Germany    arnulf at osgeo.org
>>>>
>>>> Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind, US    patrick.hogan at nasa.gov
>>>>
>>>> Vasile Crăciunescu, Romanian National Meteorological
>>>> Administration, Bucharest Romania    vasile at geo-spatial.org
>>>>
>>>> Serena Coetzee, University of Pretoria, South Africa
>>>> serena.coetzee at up.ac.za
>>>>
>>>> Carolina Arias Munoz, University of San Buenaventura, Medellin,
>>>> Colombia    krolinarias at gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> Victor Olaya, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain    volaya @unex.es
>>>>
>>>> Giorgio Zamboni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy giorgio.zamboni at polimi.it
>>>>
>>>> Jeff McKenna, Gateway Geomatics, Nova Scotia, Canada
>>>> jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
>>>>
>>>> Gabriel Roldan,  OpenGeo, Argentina    groldan at opengeo.org
>>>>
>>>> Jose Gomes, University of Coimbra, Portugal    jgs9666 at gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> Luis Bermudez, OGC    lbermudez at opengeospatial.org
>>>>
>>>> Mauricio Miranda, OSGeo Spanish Chapter    mmiranda at osgeo.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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