Marketing Meeting 2023-10-27

Meeting Details

• Date: 2023-10-27
• Time: 15:00 UTC
• Location: https://meet.ffmuc.net/OSGeo_Marketing
• Shared pad: https://pads.ccc.de/LNbt3YwtsB
• Previous meeting:
• Marketing Meeting 2023-09-29

Present

Attending: Jody, Enock, Laura Scribing: Enock, Jody

Agenda

• Review last meeting and action items Marketing Meeting 2023-09-29

Social media

Experimenting with use of social media:

• LinkedIn: Repost of members related posts, lots of activity
• Facebook: FOSS4G Asia communicating here, nice to see focus on low attendance cost fees

Booth Review

- Great to have material, some left overs for Jody to take to foss4g-asia

SotM Afrika 2023 OSGeo Booth

- https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_SotM_Afrika_2023_OSGeo_booth - Request for funds is not on that wiki page, it is email

1. Printing: Marketing Items €400
2. Travel (Nairobi - Yaounde) €830
3. Accommodation €410

Total

€1640 --> $1,736 USD (Compare to $4500 2023 budget)

• https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2023 (vs https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Committee_Budget_2023 request)
• Q: Is their a regional chapter?

• Yes OSGeo Afrika chapter, has mailing list?

• Q: Does the local chapter provide funding for requests like this?

• From https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2023 none (added later)

• Q: How much do we have available in our budget remaining? Enough ...

• Action: Enock: Check book keeping, and make a motion to the email list to support $1240; and ask for a blog post for osgeo news.

2024 budget planning

- Something to take to email list, expect request from the board "soon" based on time of year. - ACTION: Jody send email to list on budget ideas for 2024

OSGeo Sponsoring

- Flyers updated for FOSS4GNA

Podcast support =

- Podcast Africa support email sent.

OSGeo Sponsorship Opportunity 2024 post

• coordinate with the board to post a news item in january 2024
• see version from 2021 https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-sponsorship-opportunities-2021/
• ACTION Astrid will contact board and work on it
• See https://www.osgeo.org/about/how-to-become-a-sponsor/ for obligations
  • Idea: board asks projects for sponors

Mastodon

- Action: Astrid give access to Jody

Next meeting

• Marketing Meeting 2023-11-24 15 UTC (last friday of the month)