The webcom is also rebooting! On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 4:38 AM nicolas bozon <nicolas.bo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Cameron, Marketing Committee, OSGeo Directors, > > > As a member of the so called "dormant" Marketing Committee, i would be > glad to help revitalising it. > > In fact it hasn't been a satisfactory nor confortable situation to be a > member of such a forgotten commitee since 2012. > So i'd like to volunteer for championing such committee reboot, and > propose to help define strategic changes, recruit new members and tackle > some of the administrative tasks. > I can also chair the Committee if needed, and if this is appropriated for > gathering the troops. Cameron, I am not Santa (but 'Klaus' only:)), but I'd > be very glad to learn from your experience and we may try to enhance things > together. > > However,i think the commitee's mission and role should be revised, > probably indepth modified, and aligned with the new OSGeo plans. > My main point is that the mandate of the OSGeo Marketing Committee must go > way beyond the funding of OSGeo events and the managment of consumables or > swag, as it mostly did (or not) until now. > OSGeo Live is one of our best marketing tool to showcase some of the > Foundation's software projects, but not to promote and market the > Foundation itself IMHO. > OSGeo Live must of course be kept inside a new marketing plan, but the > latter shouldn't be built on DVDs and events only. > > According to me, improving OSGeo Marketing globally is one of the most > important and urgent action to be taken according to the new strategic plan > defined by the Board. > It must help OSGeo to be presented as more matured, more inclusive, more > professional, and fully considered by the broader geospatial community. > > I believe such reborn Marketing Committee should work closely along with > the Board of Directors, the Website Committee and a few motivated > contributors, in order to: > > - Define a consitent OSGeo identity from existing material (including > revised graphic guidelines, new shapes and colors aligned with identified > needs and recent web trends, new scalable vector graphics, web fonts ...) > - Refine the OSGeo web identity (including main site redesign through the > developement a new drupal theme, responsive webdesign, efficient and > reusable visuals...) > - Enhance OSGeo web content and presence (including blog, journal, > newsletter and bring more activity on various social networks) > - Market the OSGeo brand online and at all kind of events (including > consumables management, viral marketing, direct marketing...) > > Such actions could be prioritized and voted by the Committee's members, > coordinated by the commitee's chair according to the Committee members, and > aligned with the allocated budget and volunteered time. > > I sincerly hope we can reboot and improve our Marketing Committee > together, in order to grow and market our Foundation better. > Let us talk, decide and act now ! Enough rest for MarkCom' ! > > Best regards, > > Nick > > 2016-03-15 8:42 GMT+01:00 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shor...@gmail.com>: > >> OSGeo needs help distributing money to worthy causes. We need an OSGeo >> Santa Clause. >> >> The current state of play is: >> * The OSGeo Board has allocated budget for an OSGeo marketing committee >> to distribute. >> >> * But, our OSGeo Marketing committee has imploded. (I was the last chair, >> a few years back). It seems no one is interested in the administrative >> tasks of giving away money, doing the administrative work of writing >> cheques, being accountable, deciding which requests get funded verses which >> don't based on a set of guidelines. >> >> My take is that handing out money to worthy marketing causes can't be too >> important, as it is not bugging anyone enough to want to step up and >> volunteer to fix it. But I'd be delighted to proven wrong, and see some >> people volunteer to step up to revitalise the OSGeo marketing committee. If >> you are possibly interested, please speak up. I'd be happy to help you get >> started. >> >> A first task would be to consider this request from Bob. >> >> Warm regards, Cameron >> >> On 9/03/2016 6:29 am, Jody Garnett wrote: >> >> Sounds like an amazing event, marketing committee should have a budget to >> work against shortly (it is an agenda topic for this week and you can see >> the budget >> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Operational_Budget_for_2016> >> on the wiki ). >> >> Cameron is involved with both marketing committee and OSGeo live and >> should be able to assist. >> >> >> >> -- >> Jody Garnett >> >> On 8 March 2016 at 08:59, Bob Basques <bbasq...@sharedgeo.org> wrote: >> >>> All, >>> >>> I haven’t heard anything back on the following request from anyone >>> (other than Jody commenting about where this should be sent . . .). >>> >>> So trying again . . . >>> >>> -------------------- >>> >>> >>> >>> All, >>> >>> First, let me know if this is the wrong list to request from. >>> >>> We’re holding a regional Geo conference and would like to include a >>> OSGeo-Live thumb drive in each attendees goody bag. So, please consider >>> this an official request for funding of OSGeo Live Thumb Drives for the >>> event. >>> >>> This is a multi- discipline, multi-state event for all things Geo. 60 >>> confirmed presenters. This will be a highly knowledgable audience and >>> because of the varied subject matter it will be an excellent venue to get >>> the word out to new folks about OSGeo and it’s mission, via the OSGeo Live >>> project. More info about the event can be seen here: >>> >>> www.umgeocon.org >>> >>> We’ve planned for 350 attendees. We can make our own thumb drives, >>> and/or pay to have them made ourselves. We’ve handed these out in the past >>> and will also include a getting started cheat sheet for each user to get >>> them going with the least amount of effort. >>> >>> I haven’t checked lately for the going rate on these. Local suppliers >>> are advertising ~$5 each for an 8GB USB3.0 blank drive. >>> >>> Request is for $2000 ($1750 for Drives, $250 for copying the OSGeo Live >>> suite to each). >>> >>> Related, my submission of the OSGeo Live presentation has been accepted >>> at the event, and there will also be a (free) GeoMOOSE workshop. >>> >>> bobb >>> >>> -- >>> Bob Basques >>> <bbasq...@sharedgeo.org>bbasq...@sharedgeo.org >>> 612.598.9210 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Board mailing list >>> bo...@lists.osgeo.org >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Board mailing >> listBoard@lists.osgeo.orghttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board >> >> >> -- >> Cameron Shorter, >> Software and Data Solutions Manager >> LISAsoft >> Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf, >> 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009 >> >> P +61 2 9009 5000, W www.lisasoft.com, F +61 2 9009 5099 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > -- -- Jody Garnett
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