2015 Sponsorship Drive Working Group

= working group =


 * Goal: contact prior sponsors, blog post inviting new sponsors
 * Members:
 * Jody Garnett
 * Micheal Smith
 * Jeff McKenna
 * Venkatesh Raghavan
 * volunteer if interested
 * Communication: osgeo-board mailing list

tasks

 * 1) Update http://www.osgeo.org/sponsors to reflect current sponsorship (done - action taken by board)
 * 2) Draft OSGeo 2015 Sponsorship price points
 * 3) * invite feedback, revise
 * 4) * Update website with result
 * 5) Contact prior sponsors
 * 6) * gather ideas for sponsor perks
 * 7) Report back to board on the following:
 * 8) * Adjust sponsor perks based on feedback
 * 9) * Question is raised if this activity should be outsourced to professional organization
 * 10) * Treasure: can update financial forecast as required

contact list
Contact list gathered from http://www.osgeo.org/sponsors, use this list as a starting point to contact sponsors, but the exact list of all past sponsors must be confirmed by the OSGeo Treasurer.

Confirmed sponsors:


 * Thinkware - contact for Q&A

Expressed interest:


 * Gateway Geomatics (committed for $500 Associate sponsor)
 * GeoCat

Prior sponsors:


 * 1Spatial
 * 2ndQuadrant
 * ASTUN Technology
 * Autodesk
 * Boreal-Information Strategies (Borealis)
 * Camptocamp
 * First Base Solutions Inc.
 * INGRES
 * Institut Geographique National (IGN) France
 * Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) Brazil
 * Karttakeskus
 * LizardTech, A Celartem Company
 * Metaspatial
 * Ordnance Survey
 * PCI Geomatics
 * WhereGroup

Additional contacts recommended by discuss@osgeo.org:


 * Boundless
 * TBD

Sample Emails
The following email is used as a guide for communication.

Feedback from Existing Sponsors
Feedback on sponsorship options:

:

OSGeo is restarting our sponsorship program and would like to ask for your input as a potential sponsor.

We are looking at a number of creative options for sponsorship and have two alternatives for your consideration: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_2015_Sponsorship

We are also soliciting feedback on the value OSGeo can provide you and your organization, and any sponsorship benefits we may be in position to offer.

-- Jody Garnett OSGeo Board

Prior Sponsors
Sample sponsorship drive to prior sponsors:

[contact]:

OSGeo is restarting our sponsorship program and would like to ask if you are interested in supporting us this year.

Records show that you have participated since ..... with a sponsorship of $... We have revised sponsorship levels for 2015 with a number of creative options. As a well-known and longstanding sponsor of OSGeo we would like to recommend silver sponsorship.

As part of this sponsorship drive we are soliciting feedback on the value OSGeo can provide your organization, and any sponsorship benefits we may be in position to offer. If you have a moment for an email discussion or hangout it would be great to hear from you.

-- Jody Garnett OSGeo Board

Local Event Sponsors
Sample sponsorship drive for local event sponsors:

:

OSGeo is restarting our sponsorship program and would like to ask if you are interested in supporting us this year.

We have a number of creative options for local event sponsors, based on your existing sponsorship of the GeoNode code-sprint you are already considered a Bronze sponsor. We would like your permission to list you as such on the OSGeo sponsors page.

With our revised sponsorship levels we would encourage you to consider Silver sponsorship either directly by sponsoring OSGeo, sponsoring the Paris Code Sprint or sponsoring FOSS4G 2016 in Bonn.

As part of this sponsorship drive we are soliciting feedback on the value OSGeo can provide your organization, and any sponsorship benefits we may be in position to offer. If you have a moment for an email discussion or hangout it would be great to hear from you.

-- Jody Garnett OSGeo Board