[Marketing] Question on Questions and a Question

[Jeffrey Johnson]

This one about breaking things up, but I asked them to ask to
secretary at . Ill ask them again to send to this list (someone can
moderate through I assume?)

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was going to add Q&A/Clarifications to the website page. I think you
> already fielded some questions did you not Jeff?
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 18 January 2017 at 11:22, Jeffrey Johnson <ortelius at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> +1 on all these. It may be a bit much to ask folks to subscribe to our
>> list, does it allow through public posts, or could we moderate those
>> through and respond cc'ng the original person but keeping the response
>> on the list? Wiki is a great idea too.
>>
>> I concur that the project management overhead on our side is probably
>> not worth it, lets see what kind of questions/responses we get.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Cameron Shorter
>> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > If we decide to answer questions publicly (which I think we should),
>> > then I
>> > also suggest that we encourage vendors to send questions to this public
>> > marketing email list.
>> >
>> > Re question about breaking project up, I'd suggest we aim to minimise
>> > OSGeo
>> > volunteer workload and risk by encouraging bidders to team up under one
>> > prime rather than put in multiple bids for multiple components.
>> >
>> > Adding a wiki with questions and official responses is probably a good
>> > idea
>> > too.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 18/01/2017 6:35 AM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> On 17 January 2017 at 11:14, Jeffrey Johnson <ortelius at gmail.com>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> One question I have had already is how are we going to respond to
>> >>>> questions from potential vendors. Should they send them to
>> >>>> secretary at osgeo.org to be forwarded to us?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> I assume so; you may wish to volunteer act as point for the EOI
>> >>> process.
>> >>> If
>> >>> I remember our meeting notes Marc and I are digging into
>> >>> policy/strategy
>> >>> document.
>> >>
>> >> Im happy to be the POC, but I do NOT want people emailing me directly
>> >> with these questions and prefer to answer them formally. Perhaps we
>> >> ask the secretary to prepare any questions and send them to us and we
>> >> can respond as a group formally and with a public record (even if I am
>> >> taking the lead)
>> >>
>> >>>> The question at hand was whether we would consider splitting up the
>> >>>> contract so that a firm was only proposing for one or two parts and
>> >>>> we
>> >>>> would have another vendor for the other component(s). I think this
>> >>>> could be ok, but would require more project management on our side.
>> >>>> Should we put language to this effect in the letter to discuss?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> I see.
>> >>>
>> >>> The update to splitting out content migration is it could dovetail
>> >>> into
>> >>> an
>> >>> going editing role in 2018.
>> >>>
>> >>>> Really hoping we can get this out today, the clock is ticking :)
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Can we send it, and answer questions as they come in. You can add Q&A
>> >>> to
>> >>> the
>> >>> http://www.osgeo.org/marketing/rebranding.html page.
>> >>
>> >> Marc, I'd prefer you send this to discuss as the chair of our
>> >> committee.
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