[Marketing] Sanity check from the incubation list

[Jody Garnett]

This new level would be similar to "OSGeo Labs", the trick here is we are trying to check if we can send additional projects to the Marketting committee.  

(I understand that as open source spatial projects they are welcome to engage with the Marketting committee irrespective of their involvement with incubation).  

--  
Jody Garnett


On Monday, 24 September 2012 at 5:56 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

> Jody,
> I think the most valuable Marketing pipeline OSGeo currently offers is the OSGeo-Live DVD, which includes an "OSGeo" icon, an "OSGeo - Project in Incubation" icon, or no icon depending on the level of incubation for each project.
>  
> This only partially addresses your marketing concerns, but I don't think we should be changing things.
>  
>  
> On 22/09/12 18:37, Jody Garnett wrote:
> > Afternoon:  
> >  
> > I am considering mixing things up with the incubation committee (on Monday's meeting). As such I would like to have a quick sanity check with the Marketting committee …. as I am sorry to say the idea involves asking for your help!  
> >  
> > We have had a number of really good project waiting (sometimes years) for a volunteer to mentor them. I am thinking of introducing a couple new stages to incubation, in order to allow the OSGeo Foundation to foster these projects despite the limited capabilities of the incubation committees.  
> >  
> > What this means for Marketting?  
> >  
> > It means that there would be more projects (yay!) who would need help filling out the "Project Status" information section of incubation. This project status information is in part collected for the Marketting committee, so the website and marketing materials can be filled in correctly.  
> >  
> > Q1: If we had more projects in the mix could we send them to this email list for help filling in this "status" information used to establishing their web presence at OSGeo?   
> >  
> > Q2: Would like to promote these projects as part of the wider OSGeo marketing effort?  
> >  
> > I will leave this committee to think about … and if you wish I can attend the next Marketing meeting. Personally I would hold off until a project has completed its provenance review (so we are sure they are responsibility distributing code and won't get us into trouble). Indeed if that was policy it would go a long way towards motivating the completion of that step.  
> >  
> > --   
> > Jody Garnett
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