In California we've started sending letters to local companies to see if
we can get some local sponsors for all the events we want to exhibit at.
I rethought some of my original targets though and think it would be
better if the Foundation approached the publishers in particular:
O'Reilly, Springer, and Apress who have all published books either on or
including OSGeo software and mostly by OSGeo affiliated authors.
It also highlighted the need for use to do a better job keeping track of
what events OSGeo has had exhibits at since these potential sponsors
will want to know. Is the wiki category tags working well enough, I know
I'm making pages for every event I do but I don't think thats always the
case.
Examples:
OSCON 2008 - from what I hear we had a booth, but you wouldn't know that
from the wiki
WAURISA - Upcoming event that the Cugos chapter is going to exhibit at
isn't on the wiki either.
KSRS(Korean Society of Remote Sensing) - past
GISAK(GIS Association of Korea) - future
I think it's pretty important that we have a good list to show potential
sponsors, if they saw that we're getting to 50 conferences around the
world a year, that's quite a selling point.
I don't have a solution just want to start the discussion.
Alex, a conference summary table sounds like a good idea. You could put it into a wiki, or a google docs spreadsheet.
Include:
Date,
Location,
Conference Name (linked to specific wiki page),
Number of delegates and delegate profile,
Sponsors,
People who manned the stand,
What will be/was presented at the conference.
A table like this would be useful for a number of reasons:
1. To obtain more sponsorship
2. To help OSGeo plan a budget for future conference sponsorship
Alex Mandel wrote:
In California we've started sending letters to local companies to see if
we can get some local sponsors for all the events we want to exhibit at.
I rethought some of my original targets though and think it would be
better if the Foundation approached the publishers in particular:
O'Reilly, Springer, and Apress who have all published books either on or
including OSGeo software and mostly by OSGeo affiliated authors.
It also highlighted the need for use to do a better job keeping track of
what events OSGeo has had exhibits at since these potential sponsors
will want to know. Is the wiki category tags working well enough, I know
I'm making pages for every event I do but I don't think thats always the
case.
Examples:
OSCON 2008 - from what I hear we had a booth, but you wouldn't know that
from the wiki
WAURISA - Upcoming event that the Cugos chapter is going to exhibit at
isn't on the wiki either.
KSRS(Korean Society of Remote Sensing) - past
GISAK(GIS Association of Korea) - future
I think it's pretty important that we have a good list to show potential
sponsors, if they saw that we're getting to 50 conferences around the
world a year, that's quite a selling point.
I don't have a solution just want to start the discussion.