OSGeo Sponsorship Opportunities 2018

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Welcome to an exciting year of community building at OSGeo! Many of our activities are only possible thanks to the support of our volunteers and sponsors. If you are in position to finacially support our community, events and activities in 2018 we would love to hear from you.

OSGeo sponsorship is accumulated across events recognizing organizations that support us financially at each level of our community from grass roots local chapter advocacy, hands on project sprints, industry focused foundation initiatives, to outreach at FOSS4G internationally.

OSGeo initiatives:


 * UN Committee is spearheading a series of capacity building exercises supporting open source adoption through improvements to documentation. Each exercise selects from competing student bids, directly supporting open source and student outreach.

Event sponsorship opportunities:


 * FOSS4G - our celebrated annual event August 27 - September 2.
 * FOSS4GNA - opportunity to learn, explore, share, and collaborate on the latest foss4g ideas and information May 14-16.
 * FOSS4GUK - OSGeo:UK hosting March 8-10
 * OSGeo Code Sprint 2018 Annual Code Sprint comes to Bonn (Germany) in 2018!
 * Additional regional and project events will be announced throughout the year, keep your eye open for a chance to assist either financially or in person.

Project sponsorship opportunities:


 * gvSIG Association supporting the OSGeo gvSig Desktop application
 * QGIS.ORG supporting the OSGeo QGIS Desktop application

Sponsorship benefits range from website placement, inclusion in promotional material, to events and press releases. For additional information, examples and available discounts, please see our sponsorship page (or contact treasurer@osgeo.org with your questions).