[Live-demo] [Board] Reviving the OSGeo Marketing Committee?

[Cameron Shorter]

Jeff,
CCing your response to the OSGeo-Live list.

On 20/09/2014 6:54 am, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> On 2014-09-19 5:44 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>
>> We have a few things to address in OSGeo marketing:
>> 1. We don't have an efficient micro-payment system, for say paying
>> someone $100 to cover costs of printing a few fliers for a local foss4g
>> event. (I think each cheque costs $30 to write).
>
> Interesting, I wasn't aware of the $30 cheque issue.  I wonder if 
> there is some other way to avoid this cost.
>
>>
>> 2. We need to revamp our wiki, probably throw away most existing
>> content, as it is too hard for anyone to work out what is/is not in
>> scope for marketing funding. We need to replace with clear guidelines
>> and priorities.
>
> I agree with the full cleanup / starting over.
>
>>
>> 3. As highlighted at last foss4g, USB printers often are not competent
>> enough to print bootable USBs. (OSGeo-Live USBs are one of our key
>> marketing tools). So we probably need to find a trusted USB printer,
>> then get them to ship to worthy causes.
>>
>
>
> Boy Cameron you are right on that one.  Other OSGeo-Live leads like 
> BrianH and Angelos both told me in Portland that we, OSGeo, should be 
> finding one single distributor for bootable USBs, test a small batch 
> with them, then distribute to all events from that one distributor - 
> exactly what you just said here.
>
> -jeff
>
>
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