Marketing Meeting 2023-10-27
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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
Notes
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
- Printing: Marketing Items €400
- Travel (Nairobi - Yaounde) €830
- 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)