2015 Sponsorship Drive Working Group

working group

• Goal: contact prior sponsors, blog post inviting new sponsors
• Members:
  • Jody Garnett
  • Micheal Smith
  • Jeff McKenna
  • Venkatesh Raghavan
  • volunteer if interested
• Communication: osgeo-board mailing list

tasks

1. Update http://www.osgeo.org/sponsors to reflect current sponsorship (done - action taken by board)
2. Draft OSGeo 2015 Sponsorship price points
   • (done) invite feedback, revise
   • status: mildly successful we have a Proposal A and Proposal B (rather than agreement)
3. Contact sponsors that have expressed interest / prior sponsors
   • gather input in proposals
   • gather input a sponsor perks / benefits
4. report back to board
   • this page of recomendatinos recommendation
   • Update website with result
   • Adjust http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship, http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities
5. sponsorship drive
   • bog post
   • email prior sponsors
   • Treasure: can update financial forecast as required

Questions:

1. • Should this activity be outsourced to professional organization?

contact list

Contact list gathered from http://www.osgeo.org/sponsors, use this list as a starting point to contact sponsors, but the exact list of all past sponsors must be confirmed by the OSGeo Treasurer.

Confirmed sponsors:

• Thinkware - contact for Q&A

Expressed interest:

• Gateway Geomatics (committed for $500 Associate sponsor)
• GeoCat
• Boundless

Prior sponsors:

• 1Spatial
• 2ndQuadrant
• ASTUN Technology
• Autodesk
• Boreal-Information Strategies (Borealis)
• Camptocamp
• First Base Solutions Inc.
• INGRES
• Institut Geographique National (IGN) France
• Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) Brazil
• Karttakeskus
• LizardTech, A Celartem Company
• Metaspatial
• Ordnance Survey
• PCI Geomatics
• WhereGroup

Additional contacts recommended by discuss@osgeo.org:

• Boundless
• PlanetLabs
• UrtheCast
• TBD

Sample Emails

The following email is used as a guide for communication.

Feedback from Existing Sponsors

Feedback on sponsorship options:

<Contact>:

Your interest in sponsoring OSGeo is greatly appreciated. Sponsorship is used to help
cover costs for our technology infrastructure, outreach activities and supporting the
promotion and development efforts of our projects.

We are looking at a number of creative options for sponsorship and have two
alternatives for consideration: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_2015_Sponsorship

Can I ask for your feedback on these two options? I would like a chance to answer your
questions and listen to any suggestions you may have before proceeding with a
recommendation to the board.

For information on current sponsorship levels and benefits see our sponsorship
page at: http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship . 
--
Jody Garnett
OSGeo Board

Prior Sponsors

Sample sponsorship drive to prior sponsors:

[contact]:

OSGeo is restarting our sponsorship program and would like to ask
if you are interested in supporting us this year.

Records show that you have participated since ..... with a sponsorship
of $... We have revised sponsorship levels for 2015 with a number of
creative options.  As a well-known and longstanding sponsor of
OSGeo we would like to recommend silver sponsorship.

As part of this sponsorship drive we are soliciting feedback on the value
OSGeo can provide your organization, and any sponsorship benefits we
may be in position to offer. If you have a moment for an email discussion
or hangout it would be great to hear from you.

--
Jody Garnett
OSGeo Board

Local Event Sponsors

Sample sponsorship drive for local event sponsors:

<Contract>:

OSGeo is restarting our sponsorship program and would like to ask
if you are interested in supporting us this year.

We have a number of creative options for local event sponsors, based
on your existing sponsorship of the GeoNode code-sprint you are
already considered a Bronze sponsor. We would like your permission to
list you as such on the OSGeo sponsors page.

With our revised sponsorship levels we would encourage you to consider
Silver sponsorship either directly by sponsoring OSGeo, sponsoring
the Paris Code Sprint or sponsoring FOSS4G 2016 in Bonn.

As part of this sponsorship drive we are soliciting feedback on the value
OSGeo can provide your organization, and any sponsorship benefits we
may be in position to offer. If you have a moment for an email discussion
or hangout it would be great to hear from you.

--
Jody Garnett
OSGeo Board