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

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?

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.