[OSGeo-UK] Chapter Sponsorship and Marketing in General

[Mike Saunt]

All,

I managed to get Duncan Guthrie at 1Spatial to agree to a £500 sponsorship
to OSGeo UK Chapter at the AGI GeoCommunity.  Astun Technology will also be
sponsoring again (same amount) this year - I think from November.

With an OSGeo strategy / marketing hat on I think we need to be
looking at raising
the profile and I think the chapter needs to see where it can push to get
things for free (OSGIS, Universities, AGI Special Interest Groups etc) -
£1000 won't go too far so we'll also need to get other sponsorship in.  If
we are doing this it could be good to see if we can get say 3 year
commitments from organisations to help us.

I think the the Chapter needs to consider is getting some 'levels' of
sponsorship in place for different amounts similar to the osgeo.org.  Tyler
would no doubt have info, marketing material etc - can you let us know
Tyler?

We then need to approach organisations (not just companies) - it would be
good to get lots of orgs logos on the website.  Current thoughts on orgs are
as follows.

   - Unis (Nottingham, Lancaster, Newcastle etc - anyone who sponsors)
   - GI Suppliers (Astun, 1Spatial, Autodesk, Ordnance Survey, Atkins,
   Faunalia etc)
   - Users (West Midlands Fire (?), Scottish Parliament, WAG etc)
   - Smaller suppliers / users who would like to promote their wares

This really needs to go into a plan and I would suggest having one to put
forward to the chapter at the next IRC.  I think I had my name down for that
so I'd be happy to do this but need to garner feedback over the next month
to then put a proposal together.

Sound OK?  Let me know.  I'd like to look at getting a collaboration web
site set up for this so we can all feed ideas into.

Thanks
Mike

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