[Marketing] results of today's chat

[Eli Adam]

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Your thoughts echo my concern Eli - could I ask you to send them to the
> board email list?

I'm not on the Board list and think that it would be more effective
coming as feedback from the Marketing Committee (and should largely be
up to the Marketing Committee).

>
> Did anyone have thoughts specifically on the "Digital asset rebranding and
> website reboot" text?

Sorry to bring up a tangential item on the thread.  Getting back to
what you wrote:

I have drafted a call for sponsorship
(https://docs.google.com/document/d/11rRUw75YgUNjP_9w2ElsGuGr9T8v4kD5Gfh9-wxFzhE/edit)
that includes "Digital asset rebranding and website reboot" as an
initiative for sponsorship. My description could use your feedback:
>
> Digital asset rebranding and website reboot: The marketing committee has volunteered to undertake an EOI process to revamp the OSGeo visual and online presence in 2017. This is significant user-focused undertaking that would greatly benefit from your support!

I would love to have a wiki page, or a draft EOI, to link to (similar
to how I can link to the foss4g europe, foss4g boston and code sprint
websites).

The board meeting is tomorrow, I expect the above document to be sent
out at that time.

"This is ****a**** significant user-focused undertaking that would
greatly benefit from your support!"  You forgot an "a" (or remove "is"
and rework).

"This is a significant user-focused undertaking that would greatly
benefit from your support!"  Might sounds a little passive although it
does keep the rebranding as the subject.  You could try different
orders like:

"Your (valuable) support assists (enables? allows?) significant
user-focused undertakings such as the digital asset rebranding and
website reboot"

You've got the important components covered so what you've got or
similar should be good.

Best regards, Eli


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> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 4 January 2017 at 10:20, Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Has the Marketing Committee decided on whether OSGeo Sponsors must be
>> at least in some tangential way related to open source or geospatial
>> software?  I think that we should only accept relevant sponsors and
>> have the option to decline sponsorships.
>>
>> QGIS has a good example of a policy,
>>
>> http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/sponsorship/sponsorship.html#qgis-sponsorship-program
>> (at the bottom):
>>
>> Warning
>> Acceptance of sponsorship offers is at the discretion of the QGIS PSC.
>> We reserve the right to decline offers of sponsorship if the
>> sponsoring organisation or party seems to be at odds with the ethos of
>> our project. For example offers from marketing companies that have
>> nothing to do with GIS / spatial services, or offers where we have
>> reason to believe the presence of the sponsors logo and marketing
>> materials on our site and other materials will degrade the experience
>> of our users will be declined.
>>
>> Thanks for your thoughts.
>>
>> Best regards, Eli
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I have drafted a call for sponsorship that includes "Digital asset
>> > rebranding and website reboot" as an initiative for sponsorship. My
>> > description could use your feedback:
>> >>
>> >> Digital asset rebranding and website reboot: The marketing committee
>> >> has
>> >> volunteered to undertake an EOI process to revamp the OSGeo visual and
>> >> online presence in 2017. This is significant user-focused undertaking
>> >> that
>> >> would greatly benefit from your support!
>> >
>> > I would love to have a wiki page, or a draft EOI, to link to (similar to
>> > how
>> > I can link to the foss4g europe, foss4g boston and code sprint
>> > websites).
>> >
>> > The board meeting is tomorrow, I expect the above document to be sent
>> > out at
>> > that time.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jody Garnett
>> >
>> > On 30 December 2016 at 09:46, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Here is the result of today's chat - action items have been
>> >> highlighted:
>> >>
>> >> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Meeting_2016-12-30
>> >> --
>> >> Jody Garnett
>> >
>> >
>> >
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