[Marketing] 2020 Marketing for OSGeo and OSGeoLive

[Jody Garnett]

Happy new year Brian:

With respect to attending events our strategy has been to support local
chapters, or individual members, in their advocacy activities. Do you know
of any osgeo groups/individuals attending this event? We have experimented
with doing booth swaps also, but found the availability of our members to
be limiting factor.

As for a balanced position, it would be good to recruit you for the
marketing committee as we have a number of pages for the website, and
slides for slide decks, on our backlog. For myself I understand and respect
both the "how to integrate open source" and "how to migrate to open source"
positions - and watched our community get split on the difference. I am
very much on the "open source exists" - and I cannot seem to emphasis
enough that folks do not yet know open source is an option :)

If you are interested in taking part in the marketing committee it is a
very casual commitment, we have a small number of motions (voting by
email), and the key requirement is simply to "care about making open source
available" :)
--
Jody Garnett


On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 at 11:04, Brian M Hamlin <maplabs at light42.com> wrote:

> Hi Marketing List --
>
>   great to see a newly invigorated group on the email list in December
> 2019  (!)
>
>   just a quick note today to say that "prominent placement" at a major
> 2020 conference is being negotiated now (more details available as things
> develop). The opportunity here includes *OSGeoLive* and graduate-level
> educational content to the knowledgeable public. The emphasis for this
> event will be on remote sensing data, machine learning and the software
> stack presented on OSGeoLive, including *CoG* and *STAC* (analysis-ready
> data), *FAIR* and open data, and environmental applications.
>
>   People may know that in the last 30 months, a record number of remote
> sensing missions have been deployed to space. The data they provide is
> beginning to appear in various formats and on various platforms.
>
>   OSGeoLive is uniquely positioned with multi-lingual documentation, and a
> single, integrated platform.  Personally I feel that OSGeo needs to take a
> balanced position, and refrain from threatening commercial players with
> wholesale replacement, but instead emphasize educational aspects, filling
> important niche needs with low-cost and open distribution, AND not get
> locked into a permanent association with no-budget research environments.
> Instead, partnering well and allowing others to build research groups based
> on the platform, and choosing presentation venues, presents a better
> long-term balance for the modestly supported OSGeoLive project.
>
>   best wishes to all in this holiday season
>
>   Brian M Hamlin
>
>
>
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