Marketing Meeting 2020-11-27

Meeting Details

• Date: Friday, 2020-11-27
• Time: 15:00 UTC
• Location: https://meet.ffmuc.net/OSGeo_Marketing
• Shared pad: https://pads.ccc.de/LNbt3YwtsB
• Previous meeting:

• Marketing Meeting 2020-10-30

Agenda

• Review Marketing Meeting 2020-10-30
• budget for next year
• check Tickets Website improvements https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/issues
• FOSS4G for RUFORUM
• Events
  • https://www.osgeo.org/events/

Minutes

Present

• Scribing: Astrid
• Attending: Enock, Astrid, Jody (part of the meeting), Laura

budget for 2021

• postponed to January 2021 meeting

FOSDEM 6 & 7 February 2021

• application for a geospatial devroom by Astird / Luca
• no decision yet
• if accepted we need to find +-20 speaker and moderate 1 day
• https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/
• would be great if we can find more volunteers to help with the event

Podcast Status

• mapscaping: money was paid. Now 4 podcast can run
• If there is interest in our community for more we can extend this program

Podcast Episodes

• RasterFrames - DONE https://mapscaping.com/blogs/the-mapscaping-podcast/raster-frames-making-imagery-a-first-class-citizen-of-apache-spark

• From Gitter: The MapScaping Podcast did an episode on RasterFrames!! https://plnk.to/MapScaping/e/1000498345866 Thanks go to OSGeo for sponsoring it, and to @jodygarnett for getting RF in the OSGeo catalog.

• GeoServer: IN PROCUCTION Jody
• Daniel contacted GRASS team
• maybe OSGeoLive - TODO: Astrid, Enock contact team and ask

FOSS4G for RUFORUM

• FOSS4G for RUFORUM
• what is the plan: webinar / monthly / start in March 2021
• ongoing regularly webinars every month with changing topics
• would be great if the presenters could change, attract senior students to get involved
• would be open to the world and recordings on YouTube
• add as resource on osgeo.org
• Release OSGeoLive 14 expected for January 2021
• provide USBs with Version 14 - discuss in 2021
• Maybe good starting date will be March 2021
• TODO Astrid: RUFORUM respond to the thread via email: suggest a call, they can suggest a meeting time 14 UTC and later

Website Tickets

• check Tickets Website improvements https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/issues
• There are many website tickets and it is not clear who will work on them
• idea to make a sprint with Jody to check the tickets and define actions
• TODO: Enock will contact Jody to ask whether a meeting could be possible (fallback could be Vicky)

OSGeo Events

• we could put more effort in promoting our events
• all team members are invited to publish events
• https://www.osgeo.org/events/
• TODO: Enock, Please add SoTM Africa event: 19-21 November 2021
  • https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_Africa_2021
  • https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:A_giraffe_with_a_beautiful_background_of_Nairobi_City_Skyline.jpg

We welcome Laura

• Laura joined the marketing meeting. She would like to join the team.
• TODO: Laura sends a mail to the marketing list. Astrid will then make a motion

MOU

• Discussion on MOUs and what activity is done to stay in touch with the partners
• https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_OSGeo_All
• f.e YouthMappers https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_YouthMappers

Actions/TODOs

• TODO Enock will contact Jody to ask whether a meeting could be possible (fallback could be Vicky)
• TODO Enock: Please add SoTM Africa event 19-21 November 2021
  • https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_Africa_2021
  • https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:A_giraffe_with_a_beautiful_background_of_Nairobi_City_Skyline.jpg
• TODO Enock will contact Jody to ask whether a meeting could be possible (fallback could be Vicky)
• TODO Laura send a mail to the marketing list. Astrid will then make a motion
• TODO Astrid Contact board about communication with Partners from MOUs
• TODO Astrid: RUFORUM respond to the thread via email: suggest a call, they can suggest a meeting time 14 UTC and later

Next meeting

• Marketing_Meeting_2021-01-29
• if budget discussion or any urgent topic occurs we can arrange an earlier meeting