[Oceania-Board] Geocart potential sponsorship

[eli]

Hi Alex,

yep we do have a few Wellingtonians that usually go to the conference. Also
Maread and Emory are in the committee for the event. The audience is pretty
broad, usually, including people from LINZ, Landcare, NIWA, university, the
group of Maptime etc. So it would be pretty interesting to be there. Of
course I might go as Kenex (my company) anyway so I'll be happy to do some
networking without necessarily sponsoring the event, but I feel we might be
losing an opportunity for being more known around the region.

Anyway, will create a loomio and go with the board on it!

Il giorno gio 18 gen 2024 alle ore 15:51 Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com>
ha scritto:

> Hey Folks
>
> What's the audience for the event? Do we have someone going who can
> present on our behalf?
>
> If we sponsor, then we should attend. I don't know much about the event.
>
> I do think we should do a small sponsorship for Locate in May this year,
> and I emailed the CEO to ask about an MOU with them too. Might handball
> that to you now Eli...
>
> Anyhow, Im tentative on support for Geocart. +0 from me!
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 at 11:44, eli via Oceania-Board <
> oceania-board at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> Those are good considerations, thanks John.
>> Cannot remember right now the expenses for grants of the past years, but
>> we rarely get the 5k mark (unfortunately). I'd like to rump it up though a
>> little bit, see the OKR of this year (Still to be discussed).
>> I do think sponsoring GIS events should be one of our priorities where
>> possible, as it does help a lot with the community growth and engagement,
>> and New Zealand, albeit not one of the priority countries, is a difficult
>> one to win. So letting them know we're here and happy to sponsor
>> initiatives could help.
>> But at the same time, I'm not financially wise and would happily get the
>> finance committee to say their point of view on the matter.
>>
>> Il giorno gio 18 gen 2024 alle ore 11:37 John Bryant <
>> johnwbryant at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>
>>> Thanks Elisa, it sounds like an interesting opportunity! I have a couple
>>> of financial questions I think we should consider:
>>>
>>> I'm looking at our budget and seeing we have a "Grants and sponsorship"
>>> line item, in the amount of $5000. It looks like this is meant to include
>>> our grants program. What's our current expenditure against this item?
>>>
>>> What's our overall position for the year? Alex mentioned at the last
>>> meeting we may be running at a small loss.
>>>
>>> It feels like we have enough cash in the bank to make a call on this but
>>> more generally I'd like to get a better feel for how we're tracking.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> John
>>>
>>> On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 at 13:27, eli via Oceania-Board <
>>> oceania-board at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Board,
>>>>
>>>> Greg has just let me known that Geocart is on again in Wellington in
>>>> August and we could probably discuss to sponsor it- a few known names in
>>>> the Committee, too!
>>>> https://cartography.org.nz/geocart2024
>>>>
>>>> It would be good to be a Silver Sponsor - it gives us a chance to
>>>> speak, and promote OSGeo (2 minutes speech before keynote, a booth, logo
>>>> etc, see pdf for more info) but also Bronze could work. It is very likely
>>>> that Esri/Eagle will be a Platinum sponsor, so this this will give us a
>>>> good opportunity to counter any spin ;-) (and Sarah Bell is a keynote)
>>>>
>>>> As there is only 2 sponsor spots we probably need to move quickly so
>>>> I’m happy to create a pool on Loomio if you find the idea worth of
>>>> discussion.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Elisa
>>>>
>>>>
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