[Live-demo] about osgeo and sponsors

Tue Jun 20 09:05:22 PDT 2017

Hi all:

I am going to use fact & guess, the guess is because I am so new in OSGeo
Live

Fact: There are 2 sponsors pages
Guess: one is OSGeo foundation sponsors
https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/blob/master/en/sponsors_osgeo.rst
Guess: one is for OSGeo Live sponsors
https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/blob/master/en/sponsors.rst

So, I'll focus the rest of the mail for the one I think is for OSGeo
foundation sponsors.

>The sponsorship "perks" are rewritten each year, so if the OSGeo Live
project would like to adjust any of the above expectations for 2018 please
make a motion and we can change things up.

I see a lot of +1

@jody:
Do you want me to give you a hand?
I can make a tentative new sponsors_osgeo.rst page, based on everything
that is in this thread.
This tentative page can be a point of departure for review and further
changes until its ready to merge.
(hopefully today, because documentation changes deadline was on Sunday)

Regards
Vicky

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am sure marketing can help every 10 years when we change branding :)
> More seriously you are doing a great job contacting projects, if committee
> want a say they will need to step up.
>
> For example feedback about mission and vision should of been communicated
> by the board last year. The same for changing sponsors.
>
> Right now the marketing department is fielding questions about printing
> osgeo live USB sticks, and is not set up with enough budget for that in
> 2017. For next year the osgeo live project may wish to set its own budget.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 5:06 AM Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jody,
>>
>> Thanks for the review.
>>
>> One thing that makes me a little nervous is any gradual increase in
>> baseline tasks delegated to the OSGeo core time, especially when we have
>> just gone through a de-scoping exercise within OSGeo-Live to bring our
>> level of effort back to our volunteer capacity.
>>
>> If OSGeo-Live is ear-marked to be part of the OSGeo marketing channel,
>> then perhaps future hired help for marketing can be allocated for reviewing
>> and updating relevant OSGeo-Live pages (eg the list of OSGeo sponsors).
>>
>> More comments inline.
>>
>> On 19/6/17 3:21 am, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Jody for the review.
>> We had started this discussion for the 10.5 release and we did not find
>> the time for a pull request.
>> We should update this page for the 11.0 release, actually I am going to
>> open a blocker ticket for this.
>>
>> On 06/17/2017 09:08 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>>
>> Reviewing the page:
>>
>> - https://live.osgeo.org/en/sponsors.html
>>
>> I had a question about the sponsors listed, are they all current sponsors?
>> Or is that a lifetime achievement award. Also one of the images appears be
>> broken, perhaps for the australian government office of spatial data
>> management?
>>
>>
>> This sponsor list is not reviewed very often, most of these sponsors are
>> associated to the PSC members:
>> https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/commits/master/en/sponsors.rst
>> e.g. last update was to rename Lisasoft as Jirotech.
>>
>> Some comments:
>> 1. In my opinion, OSGeo, DebianGIS and UbuntuGIS should be lifetime
>> sponsors.
>>
>> +1 Cameron
>>
>> 2. For several years, NTUA and UCDAVIS host 2 servers for us to release
>> our alpha/beta/nightly iso files:
>> http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/
>> http://osprey.ucdavis.edu/downloads/osgeo/gisvm/gisvm/
>>
>> +1 Cameron
>>
>> so we should keep listing them as long as we use those servers (I am open
>> to move those files to OSGeo infrastructure as long as there is enough disk
>> space).
>> 3. Jirotech has sponsored Cameron's time for maintaining the
>> documentation and initial packaging. We should consider that the last years
>> Jirotech is not supporting packaging (perhaps we should remove that part of
>> the description?). I would like to hear from Cameron if this is an ongoing
>> sponsorship of his time or if he is spending personal time on this project
>> nowadays.
>>
>> Suggest changing words to something more generic:
>> Jirotech supports staff contribute to the core management and development
>> of OSGeo-Live.
>>
>> 4. I would like to make a motion to remove the Australian Government’s
>> Office of Spatial Data Management as a sponsor, since I have not heard from
>> them for many years now and I am not aware of any recent sponsorship to the
>> project.
>>
>> +1 Cameron. The Australian Government's Office of Spatial Data Management
>> has actually been merged into another department, so can be dropped from
>> the sponsor page.
>>
>> 5. Okeanos is still providing 2 virtual machines that we use for the
>> build and release process of OSGeo-Live.
>>
>> +1 Cameron
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The description of the OSGeo Foundation should include our vision -
>> "empower everyone with open source geospatial". Seehttp://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html
>>
>>
>> +1
>>
>>
>> The description under "The OSGeo Foundation" mixes the foundation and the
>> live gis description. I think you may need to move the following text up
>> further in the page, or add a new heading?
>>
>>
>> +1
>>
>> *This Live GIS disc and virtual-machine has been put together by members of
>> the OSGeo community to showcase their favourite Free and Open Source (FOSS)
>> geospatial software. We’ve included a number of non-OSGeo software
>> packages, GIS focused and otherwise, which we hope you will find to be as
>> useful as we do. The OSGeo Foundation does not recommend or guarantee any
>> associated software, projects, or companies found within.*
>>
>> *These programs are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but
>> WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
>> or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.*
>>
>>
>> The list of "OSGeo Supporting Sponsors" is out of date:
>>
>>
>>    - Supporting sponsors is no longer a category, we have bronze, silver,
>>    gold, platinum tiers.
>>       - See http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship for details
>>    - The sponsors listed for 2017 are here -
>>    http://www.osgeo.org/content/sponsorship/sponsors.html
>>    - The diamond and platinum sponsor logos are intended to be listed on
>>    all promotional material
>>       - Can we confirm that OSGeo Live is considered a "Key OSGeo marketing
>>       materials"?
>>       - diamond/platinum sponsors for 2017 are GeoCat and Boundless (and
>>       now Digital Globe and IBM if they wish to be cross listed as osgeo
>>       sponsors).
>>
>>
>> We need to align with the current OSGeo sponsorship scheme.
>>
>> The sponsorship "perks" are rewritten each year, so if the OSGeo Live
>> project would like to adjust any of the above expectations for 2018 please
>> make a motion and we can change things up.
>>
>> Keep in mind that OSGeo Live sponsors can be cross linked as osgeo sponsors
>> (any contirbutions they make to the project adds to their total for osgeo
>> sponsorship).
>>
>>
>> In our case, how can we measure the value of the sponsorship, since we do
>> not receive money from the sponsors?
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Angelos
>>
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Charter Member
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>>
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