<div dir="ltr">We can break that out, we had it as GIS Professional earlier - but I think we miss that 90% market share (and the important part of reaching out to ESRI users using language they are familiar with). Add a column for GIS professional if you like can we can see how it goes. The rest of your email does not make much sense to me (since I lack the experience you have) - which is all the more reason for you to dive in!<div><br></div><div>We need to set up a meeting, I am hoping for later in the week, early next week. When are you available?<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-862308904051039337gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 April 2017 at 09:50, Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gert-jan@osgeo.nl" target="_blank">gert-jan@osgeo.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="NL" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-862308904051039337m_2037368920140393240WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Jody, others, <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">After reading the Google sheet I think we miss a few audiences:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">1. I'd extend the "Esri GIS Professional" to "GIS Professional" in general, for 2 reasons:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">One reason is that there's more in life than ArcGIS and open source: think of Mapinfo, Smallworld, Geomedia and others (with by the way a very different range of companies and ecosystems behind them; Esri does both internationally and locally a great job in creating and maintaining their own, large ecosystem<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The other reason is that it's good to keep our FOSS4G users "within the family", keeping existing user informed on new exiting possibilities prevents them from switching to ArcGIS or other proprietary products<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">2. GIS professionals come in 2 main flavours<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">a. Geo-ICT professionals, with focus on the technical side.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">b. End-users of GIS software for a specific purpose, with a more business oriented goal in mind ("business" as specific work to carry out)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I think they require different messages, and perhaps different channels<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">3. GIS/Geo-ICT consultants.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Those beautiful people with a broad insight in both open source and proprietary software for geospatial, and who use their overwhelming knowledge to advise others (private companies as well as government agencies) as in setting up and maintaining a GIS<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Kind regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Gert-Jan (Geo-ICT consultant)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Van:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Marketing [mailto:<a href="mailto:marketing-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">marketing-bounces@list<wbr>s.osgeo.org</a>] <b>Namens </b>Jody Garnett<br><b>Verzonden:</b> woensdag 26 april 2017 18:21<br><b>Aan:</b> OSGeo Marketing<br><b>Onderwerp:</b> [Marketing] visitor journey meeting (all hands on deck)<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div class="m_-862308904051039337h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">We have an action item to update the visitor journey document, this is currently delaying further work on website wireframes.<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I spent a lot of today's meeting getting clarifications about intent (since some of the marketing language is unfamiliar to me and I did not want to do the wrong thing). I expect that Get Interactive has had the same meeting sequentially with Marc, Jeffrey Johnson, and now myself :)<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Jeffrey you hand an on-boarding meeting scheduled for May 2nd for our new volunteers - can I hijack that to work on this document (since this is literally why we need new volunteers)?<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u></p><div style="border:solid #dddddd 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt;max-height:18px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KX8Li3DMP5nbrE2QZyw23pAhDzVxsCoQ3x1-XwD_w60/edit?usp=drive_web" target="_blank"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" id="m_-862308904051039337m_2037368920140393240_x0000_i1025" src="https://drive-thirdparty.googleusercontent.com/16/type/application/vnd.google-apps.spreadsheet"> </span><span style="color:#1155cc;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">Visitor Journey OSGeo v1</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></b></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br clear="all"><u></u><u></u></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">--<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Jody Garnett<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div>