[Marketing] shall we look for a new chair for the Marketing Committee?

Jody Garnett jody.garnett at gmail.com
Wed Dec 4 04:30:27 PST 2019


Excellent, IK am in UTC -1.

Astrid can you start a motion nominating Enock and myself as co-chair? If
we can pass it before the next board meeting we can get officially
recognized.
--
Jody Garnett


On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 at 12:28, Enock Seth Nyamador <enockseth at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Welcome! My timezone is UTC +0
>
> Le mer. 4 déc. 2019 à 09:41, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
>> Thanks so much, what timezone are you in? Perhaps we can set up an
>> initial "reboot" meeting :)
>> I would prefer a single word, so "outreach" works for me also...
>>
>> Even with a name change I would still like to balance our concerns and
>> focus very much on what we offer to the public as a not-for-profit (the
>> "empire open everyone with open source geospatial" vision). It is super
>> hard for me personally not to get distracted by inviting folks to join our
>> organization (since as a project lead that is kind of what I want).
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 at 10:21, Enock Seth Nyamador <enockseth at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Astrid,
>>>
>>> Congrats.
>>>
>>> I will be willing to join community. Jody I can be your Co-chair.
>>>
>>> In relation to naming I will recommend Outreach & Advocacy OR just
>>> Outreach.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> -ENock
>>>
>>> Le mer. 4 déc. 2019 à 07:16, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> a
>>> écrit :
>>>
>>>> A few months ago we decided to co-chair after our time on the board was
>>>> up.  I see you have been re-elected - congrats!
>>>>
>>>> I am willing to chair but it will have to be at the run-the meetings
>>>> level for a bit as the incubation committee needs some encouragement (many
>>>> of our docs are still orphaned on the old website).
>>>>
>>>> I would much prefer to do-chair if anyone else is willing (I think that
>>>> is a smarter approach given volunteer availability and not wanting to leave
>>>> a committee inactive for stretches of time).
>>>>
>>>> I also think we could rename to “outreach” or “advocacy” committee to
>>>> attract more of our members who many not necessarily feel they have a
>>>> marketing background....
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 7:46 AM Astrid Emde (OSGeo) <
>>>> astrid_emde at osgeo.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I was wondering whether we should look for a new chair for the
>>>>> Marketing
>>>>> Committee?
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe we could ask Jody to volunteer for beeing chair?
>>>>>
>>>>> Astrid
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Marketing mailing list
>>>>> Marketing at lists.osgeo.org
>>>>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
>>>>
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>>>> --
>>>> Jody Garnett
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>>>
>>>
>
> --
> -ENock
>
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