Marketing Meeting 2008.01.16
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Marketing Committee meeting to be held on Wednesday Jan. 16th, 2008 at 22:00 UTC on (#osgeo). IRC client (select #osgeo from the drop-down list, and type /nick YOURNAME, to set your nickname for use in the channel).
Meeting Agenda 2008.01.16
- Role call
- Assign scribe
- Review previous minutes ( Previous meeting)
- Review previous action items
New Business
- Update re: Marketing project (Arnulf/Jeroen)
- Review Marketing Budget 2008 (Tyler)
- Discuss events for 2008 - bring your suggestions or post to bottom of this page
- Work on WebCom_OSGeo_Site_Focus#Visitors
- please add more
Old Business
- Define deliverables for Marketing proposal
- Continue definition of OSGeo Mission, Vision and Value Statements for marketing purposes
- Start adding the SWOT Analysis content for the future marketing plan
- Discuss and (hopefully) agree on the Marketing proposal
- Boost spreading OSGeo's name (how to?)
- Produce HQ paper version of project / committee info sheets
- Create an OSGeo CD/DVD with all projects to give away together with HQ paper version of project / committee info sheets
- Actively plan and commit to more conferences, trade fairs, events at large
- more?
Minutes
- As per IRC logs starting at 13h00 log file time.
- Tyler to scribe minutes
- Present: Daniele (had some connectivity problems), Arnulf, Jeroen, Tyler, Jo Walsh also joined
- Reviewed and accepted previous meeting minutes
- Update re: Marketing project (Arnulf/Jeroen)
- Jeroen gave update. The previously discussed marketing project did not yet start. The contracts are ready to sign. Jeroen to sign them and start project, with Arnulf's help.
- Tyler was confused, thinking we were talking about a newer project, but this is still the project discussed last meeting and not an extension. Budget comes from an advance of $5,000 that was set aside for Marketing in 2007.
- Project will run in two parts: communication plan, and logo improvement - in parallel and be done in about one month.
- Review Marketing Budget 2008 (Tyler)
- Tyler explained that before Marketing Committee starts spending real money, the Finance Committee needs a budget describing how the funds will be used.
- ACTION: Tyler to start Marketing Budget 2008 and circulate discussion to mailing list, then present to Finance Committee
- Discuss events for 2008 - bring your suggestions or post to bottom of this page
- Deferred to mailing list for further discussion.
- Work on WebCom_OSGeo_Site_Focus#Visitors
- Reminder for committee folks to review WebCom_OSGeo_Site_Focus#Visitors and try to improve.
- Meeting last about 40 minutes. Tyler moved to close, Jeroen seconded, all were in favour.