RE: [VisCom] [EU Infrastructure Report]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Arnulf Christl [mailto:arnulf.christl@ccgis.de]
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 5:26 AM
To: dev@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org
Subject: [VisCom] [Fwd: EU Infrastructure Report]

Hello,
I have been contacted by GDS who specialize in putting
together reports
that are distributed to a large number of addresses. Their main asset
being that these addresses are highly focused and reach a
well defined
set of people at the management and decision makers level.
The current
topic regards spatial data infrastructures and
interoperability within
EU plus selected countries further to the east.

We (as company CCGIS) have done this kind of promotion with
GDS before
and the direct result was zero. Still, I wanted to let you
know about it.

If any of you considers this to be an important enough
channel to make
us spend €13,750 (which corresponds to Premium Sponsorship)
or any other
level please feel free to go to their web site and check out the
details. I have received an additional PDF document that I
can send you
offlist.

Additionally you will have to contact FunCom. I am pretty
sure that with
some heavy dickering and the very good references that we
have we will
be able to reduce the cost considerably but I will not be
able to do it
myself. Too much else already.

In my personal opinion we should not take any action and
defer this kind
of thing for later. Please answer by the weeekend so that I
can give GDS
a reply on Monday.

Would this be something that we could vote for? The easiest would be
that someone votes with a -1 and we forget it.

Thanxalot,
Arnulf.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: EU Infrastructure Report
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 11:33:21 +0100
From: Jessica Watkins <jwatkins@gdsinternational.com>
To: <arnulf@osgeo.org>
CC: 'Holly Windsor' <hwindsor@gdsinternational.com>

Hi Arnulf,

Good speaking with you today. Here is the information you requested
regarding the *EU Infrastructure Report. *Please feel free to take a
look at our website www.euinfrastructure.com
<http://www.euinfrastructure.com/&gt;

The proposed package for *OS Geo Foundation* is as follows:

     * Position on the *Executive Roundtable* – interview with *OS Geo
       Foundation* executive
     * *OS Geo Foundation* to take a *Single Page
Advertisement* in the
       premium position of outside back cover, with a free reprint
     * Additional 1000 word *Case Study* or *Technical
Article* online.
     * Entire editorial presentation along with company logo and
       hyperlink will appear on the EU Infrastructure website
       www.euinfrastructure.com <http://www.euinfrastructure.com/&gt;
     * *42,000 controlled distribution* of report
     * *Lead Management Service*- Individual username and password
       provided to login
     * *Circulation Manager*
     * Full resources of GDS production and editorial team
upon request
     * Additional circulation to the top Trade Shows and Seminars

Total cost: €13,750

I look forward to speaking with you again on Monday, when I can answer
any questions you may have, and look to allocate this position to you.

Kind Regards,

Jessica Watkins, on behalf of

Holly Windsor

GDS International

Level 1, Park House

Greyfriars Road

Cardiff

CF10 3AF

Tel: +44 2920 663 980

Fax:+44 2920 663 994

Mobile: +44 7702 482 918

Email: hwindsor@gdsinternational.com
<mailto:hwindsor@gdsinternational.com>

www.gdsinternational.com <http://www.gdsinternational.com/&gt;

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Michael P. Gerlek wrote:

-1.

-mpg

Thanx.

:slight_smile:

-----Original Message-----
From: Arnulf Christl [mailto:arnulf.christl@ccgis.de] Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 5:26 AM
To: dev@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org
Subject: [VisCom] [Fwd: EU Infrastructure Report]

Hello,
I have been contacted by GDS who specialize in putting together reports that are distributed to a large number of addresses. Their main asset being that these addresses are highly focused and reach a well defined set of people at the management and decision makers level. The current topic regards spatial data infrastructures and interoperability within EU plus selected countries further to the east.

We (as company CCGIS) have done this kind of promotion with GDS before and the direct result was zero. Still, I wanted to let you know about it.

If any of you considers this to be an important enough channel to make us spend €13,750 (which corresponds to Premium Sponsorship) or any other level please feel free to go to their web site and check out the details. I have received an additional PDF document that I can send you offlist.

Additionally you will have to contact FunCom. I am pretty sure that with some heavy dickering and the very good references that we have we will be able to reduce the cost considerably but I will not be able to do it myself. Too much else already.

In my personal opinion we should not take any action and defer this kind of thing for later. Please answer by the weeekend so that I can give GDS a reply on Monday.

Would this be something that we could vote for? The easiest would be that someone votes with a -1 and we forget it.

Thanxalot,
Arnulf.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: EU Infrastructure Report
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 11:33:21 +0100
From: Jessica Watkins <jwatkins@gdsinternational.com>
To: <arnulf@osgeo.org>
CC: 'Holly Windsor' <hwindsor@gdsinternational.com>

Hi Arnulf,

Good speaking with you today. Here is the information you requested
regarding the *EU Infrastructure Report. *Please feel free to take a
look at our website www.euinfrastructure.com
<http://www.euinfrastructure.com/&gt;

The proposed package for *OS Geo Foundation* is as follows:

     * Position on the *Executive Roundtable* – interview with *OS Geo
       Foundation* executive
     * *OS Geo Foundation* to take a *Single Page Advertisement* in the
       premium position of outside back cover, with a free reprint
     * Additional 1000 word *Case Study* or *Technical Article* online.
     * Entire editorial presentation along with company logo and
       hyperlink will appear on the EU Infrastructure website
       www.euinfrastructure.com <http://www.euinfrastructure.com/&gt;
     * *42,000 controlled distribution* of report
     * *Lead Management Service*- Individual username and password
       provided to login
     * *Circulation Manager*
     * Full resources of GDS production and editorial team upon request
     * Additional circulation to the top Trade Shows and Seminars

Total cost: €13,750

I look forward to speaking with you again on Monday, when I can answer
any questions you may have, and look to allocate this position to you.

Kind Regards,

Jessica Watkins, on behalf of

Holly Windsor

GDS International

Level 1, Park House

Greyfriars Road

Cardiff

CF10 3AF

Tel: +44 2920 663 980

Fax:+44 2920 663 994

Mobile: +44 7702 482 918

Email: hwindsor@gdsinternational.com <mailto:hwindsor@gdsinternational.com>

www.gdsinternational.com <http://www.gdsinternational.com/&gt;

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This sounds like Gartner group. I don't know of any communities doing this sort of thing. It seems aimed at business that need to create a buzz or legitimize a position, technology, or product.

I would turn this around in two ways. First is that we should be a source for data for these reports. GDS should come to you guys an ask for the data. Second, this shows that there are consumers for such a report and it looks like the community has some of the expertise, so why not write your own? In the web today, publishing starts with a link to the home page. We can get as good a reach as GDS and Gartner, just by being a source of information. If you want to take this route, why not start something up in the wiki and put a note out to the discuss list?

Daniel Brookshier | Community Manager | CollabNet, Inc.
8000 Marina Blvd. Suite 600 | Brisbane, CA 94005 | USA
O 972.422.5261 | C 214.207.6614 | dbrookshier@collab.net

On May 9, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Arnulf Christl wrote:

Michael P. Gerlek wrote:

-1.
-mpg

Thanx.

:slight_smile:

-----Original Message-----
From: Arnulf Christl [mailto:arnulf.christl@ccgis.de] Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 5:26 AM
To: dev@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org
Subject: [VisCom] [Fwd: EU Infrastructure Report]

Hello,
I have been contacted by GDS who specialize in putting together reports that are distributed to a large number of addresses. Their main asset being that these addresses are highly focused and reach a well defined set of people at the management and decision makers level. The current topic regards spatial data infrastructures and interoperability within EU plus selected countries further to the east.

We (as company CCGIS) have done this kind of promotion with GDS before and the direct result was zero. Still, I wanted to let you know about it.

If any of you considers this to be an important enough channel to make us spend €13,750 (which corresponds to Premium Sponsorship) or any other level please feel free to go to their web site and check out the details. I have received an additional PDF document that I can send you offlist.

Additionally you will have to contact FunCom. I am pretty sure that with some heavy dickering and the very good references that we have we will be able to reduce the cost considerably but I will not be able to do it myself. Too much else already.

In my personal opinion we should not take any action and defer this kind of thing for later. Please answer by the weeekend so that I can give GDS a reply on Monday.

Would this be something that we could vote for? The easiest would be that someone votes with a -1 and we forget it.

Thanxalot,
Arnulf.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: EU Infrastructure Report
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 11:33:21 +0100
From: Jessica Watkins <jwatkins@gdsinternational.com>
To: <arnulf@osgeo.org>
CC: 'Holly Windsor' <hwindsor@gdsinternational.com>

Hi Arnulf,

Good speaking with you today. Here is the information you requested
regarding the *EU Infrastructure Report. *Please feel free to take a
look at our website www.euinfrastructure.com
<http://www.euinfrastructure.com/&gt;

The proposed package for *OS Geo Foundation* is as follows:

     * Position on the *Executive Roundtable* – interview with *OS Geo
       Foundation* executive
     * *OS Geo Foundation* to take a *Single Page Advertisement* in the
       premium position of outside back cover, with a free reprint
     * Additional 1000 word *Case Study* or *Technical Article* online.
     * Entire editorial presentation along with company logo and
       hyperlink will appear on the EU Infrastructure website
       www.euinfrastructure.com <http://www.euinfrastructure.com/&gt;
     * *42,000 controlled distribution* of report
     * *Lead Management Service*- Individual username and password
       provided to login
     * *Circulation Manager*
     * Full resources of GDS production and editorial team upon request
     * Additional circulation to the top Trade Shows and Seminars

Total cost: €13,750

I look forward to speaking with you again on Monday, when I can answer
any questions you may have, and look to allocate this position to you.

Kind Regards,

Jessica Watkins, on behalf of

Holly Windsor

GDS International

Level 1, Park House

Greyfriars Road

Cardiff

CF10 3AF

Tel: +44 2920 663 980

Fax:+44 2920 663 994

Mobile: +44 7702 482 918

Email: hwindsor@gdsinternational.com <mailto:hwindsor@gdsinternational.com>

www.gdsinternational.com <http://www.gdsinternational.com/&gt;

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Daniel Brookshier wrote:

This sounds like Gartner group. I don't know of any communities doing this sort of thing. It seems aimed at business that need to create a buzz or legitimize a position, technology, or product.

I would turn this around in two ways. First is that we should be a source for data for these reports. GDS should come to you guys an ask for the data. Second, this shows that there are consumers for such a report and it looks like the community has some of the expertise, so why not write your own? In the web today, publishing starts with a link to the home page. We can get as good a reach as GDS and Gartner, just by being a source of information. If you want to take this route, why not start something up in the wiki and put a note out to the discuss list?

Daniel Brookshier | Community Manager | CollabNet, Inc.
8000 Marina Blvd. Suite 600 | Brisbane, CA 94005 | USA
O 972.422.5261 | C 214.207.6614 | dbrookshier@collab.net

Hi Daniel,
yes this is a good idea. I think the pieces are already coming together slowly in the Wiki although it will not be the style that we need to address decision makers, CEO and the like. What we need for that (those - ahm them) has to be more shiny. And it must be stable in a sense that it is approved material by the OSGeo Foundation, not just a nice hack. This will need to be part of the stable OSGeo pages. How to do this or better even just doing it would be up on my list for the agenda of the f2f meeting in June.

Best,

On May 9, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Arnulf Christl wrote:

Michael P. Gerlek wrote:

-1.
-mpg

Thanx.

:slight_smile:

-----Original Message-----
From: Arnulf Christl [mailto:arnulf.christl@ccgis.de] Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 5:26 AM
To: dev@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org
Subject: [VisCom] [Fwd: EU Infrastructure Report]

Hello,
I have been contacted by GDS who specialize in putting together reports that are distributed to a large number of addresses. Their main asset being that these addresses are highly focused and reach a well defined set of people at the management and decision makers level. The current topic regards spatial data infrastructures and interoperability within EU plus selected countries further to the east.

We (as company CCGIS) have done this kind of promotion with GDS before and the direct result was zero. Still, I wanted to let you know about it.

If any of you considers this to be an important enough channel to make us spend €13,750 (which corresponds to Premium Sponsorship) or any other level please feel free to go to their web site and check out the details. I have received an additional PDF document that I can send you offlist.

Additionally you will have to contact FunCom. I am pretty sure that with some heavy dickering and the very good references that we have we will be able to reduce the cost considerably but I will not be able to do it myself. Too much else already.

In my personal opinion we should not take any action and defer this kind of thing for later. Please answer by the weeekend so that I can give GDS a reply on Monday.

Would this be something that we could vote for? The easiest would be that someone votes with a -1 and we forget it.

Thanxalot,
Arnulf.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: EU Infrastructure Report
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 11:33:21 +0100
From: Jessica Watkins <jwatkins@gdsinternational.com>
To: <arnulf@osgeo.org>
CC: 'Holly Windsor' <hwindsor@gdsinternational.com>

Hi Arnulf,

Good speaking with you today. Here is the information you requested
regarding the *EU Infrastructure Report. *Please feel free to take a
look at our website www.euinfrastructure.com
<http://www.euinfrastructure.com/&gt;

The proposed package for *OS Geo Foundation* is as follows:

     * Position on the *Executive Roundtable* – interview with *OS Geo
       Foundation* executive
     * *OS Geo Foundation* to take a *Single Page Advertisement* in the
       premium position of outside back cover, with a free reprint
     * Additional 1000 word *Case Study* or *Technical Article* online.
     * Entire editorial presentation along with company logo and
       hyperlink will appear on the EU Infrastructure website
       www.euinfrastructure.com <http://www.euinfrastructure.com/&gt;
     * *42,000 controlled distribution* of report
     * *Lead Management Service*- Individual username and password
       provided to login
     * *Circulation Manager*
     * Full resources of GDS production and editorial team upon request
     * Additional circulation to the top Trade Shows and Seminars

Total cost: €13,750

I look forward to speaking with you again on Monday, when I can answer
any questions you may have, and look to allocate this position to you.

Kind Regards,

Jessica Watkins, on behalf of

Holly Windsor

GDS International

Level 1, Park House

Greyfriars Road

Cardiff

CF10 3AF

Tel: +44 2920 663 980

Fax:+44 2920 663 994

Mobile: +44 7702 482 918

Email: hwindsor@gdsinternational.com <mailto:hwindsor@gdsinternational.com>

www.gdsinternational.com <http://www.gdsinternational.com/&gt;

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