GeoWeb 2008 is this year doing a Student Competition, the idea of which
will be to award a substantial cash prize for the best technical
contribution(s) submitted. If software is included as part of the
contribution, it must be open source (w00t!).
http://www.geoweb.org/student_contest.asp
Google and Galdos are the two initial sponsors for this contest, and
they are both putting in a substantial amount, probably enough to
"endow" future such competitions.
I'd like to see OSGeo support this conference, as I intend to be pushing
for papers and content relating to applications of open source solutions
to the GIS infrastructure problems being focussed on this year. And
ideally, I think, OSGeo could offer it's support in line with this
educational initiative of supporting students.
I'm not thinking much money: we could probably get at least our logo on
the program for US$1000.
[disclaimer: yes, I'm on the GeoWeb committee...]
Comments? Where does our budget stand?
-mpg
On Tue, February 12, 2008 18:49, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
GeoWeb 2008 is this year doing a Student Competition, the idea of which
will be to award a substantial cash prize for the best technical
contribution(s) submitted. If software is included as part of the
contribution, it must be open source (w00t!).
http://www.geoweb.org/student_contest.asp
Google and Galdos are the two initial sponsors for this contest, and
they are both putting in a substantial amount, probably enough to "endow"
future such competitions.
I'd like to see OSGeo support this conference, as I intend to be pushing
for papers and content relating to applications of open source solutions to
the GIS infrastructure problems being focussed on this year. And ideally,
I think, OSGeo could offer it's support in line with this
educational initiative of supporting students.
I'm not thinking much money: we could probably get at least our logo on
the program for US$1000.
[disclaimer: yes, I'm on the GeoWeb committee...]
Comments? Where does our budget stand?
-mpg
I failed to something similar last year for GSDI. But I think this year it
should be possible.
Tyler - how do we proceed? Marketing is requesting for 10k to spend on
various conferences, events, etc.
Talk tomorrow.
--
Arnulf Christl
http://www.wheregroup.com
On 12-Feb-08, at 9:49 AM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
Comments? Where does our budget stand?
There's the question... I put a rough budget together but would like the Committee to provide feedback before I pass it on the Finance Committee. There are still some ??? in the document that I think we should fill in.
Please review it at:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Marketing_Budget_2008
Please respond with changes, or edit the wiki, or provide a yes/no vote on that page. Then we can feel that we are ready to spend money.
Tyler
+1 in general for this page from me.
I assume the amounts are in $US ?
I think saying "2-3 events at $2-3,000 each" is perhaps not quite right,
e.g. I am requesting $1K for GeoWeb. I think $3K would be the top end,
but I could easily see amounts from $500 up.
I'm not clear what branding Phase 2 will consist of, I'll wait to see
what Jeroen et al are suggesting. (I'd be disinclined if it was > $5K
though..?)
-mpg
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[mailto:marketing-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tyler
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Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 5:03 PM
To: OSGeo Marketing
Subject: [Marketing] Budget
On 12-Feb-08, at 9:49 AM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
> Comments? Where does our budget stand?
There's the question... I put a rough budget together but would like
the Committee to provide feedback before I pass it on the Finance
Committee. There are still some ??? in the document that I think we
should fill in.
Please review it at:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Marketing_Budget_2008
Please respond with changes, or edit the wiki, or provide a yes/no
vote on that page. Then we can feel that we are ready to spend money.
Tyler
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