Marc, wisdom isn’t stuck on stickers. Bugs are. 15k€ split 10 ways to students demonstrating ^applied^ results with OS software, would do a ton more beautiful damage than a dumpster worth of stickers. What happened to that tattoo idea anyway? Though pretty silly, at least it’s getting our thinking out of the box. Putting together an OS challenge and lining up world-class GIS judges to evaluate student talent is not easy. Much easier to do stickers and call it a day. ;-)
From: Marc VLOEMANS [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 9:43 PM To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo stickers anyone? Dear Patrick et al Rest assured; as the one responsible I can only say that our scarce marketing resources are deployed with careful consideration. 15k only can do so much for this year. But the time and effort that an increasing number of people in the Marketing Committee and - most notably - in our community at large spend is invaluably a lot more than 15k. If members feel they need funding for outreach and advocacy they are invited to submit a proposal to the (recently revived) Marketing Committee. Whether for promotional material (downloadable at OSGeo.org) to support specific OSGeo related activities or else....that is the committee to decide. Depending on available budget, expected value added and impact. To misquote someone wiser than myself; 'We conquer the world, sticker by sticker, laptop by laptop, student by student, department by department, organisation by organisation, country by country, continent by continent' ....and it all started with a single sticker ;-) Have a great weekend y'all. Marc Op vrijdag 30 september 2016 heeft Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> het volgende geschreven: Hope that OSGEO applies their 'marketing budget' so that that future might happen. Best assurance for that is to maximize our students intent to deliver OS ^results^ with OS tools. The measure of the future we will have is in how well we both educate and challenge our children. If we only worshipped our children for the gods they are, we would all be in heaven today. -Patrick How much are those stickers worth on eBay anyway? Less than the postage I imagine. -----Original Message----- From: Discuss [mailto:[email protected]<javascript:;>] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 7:02 PM To: [email protected]<javascript:;> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo stickers anyone? Hi Madi, Anne, thanks for promoting OSGeo! I think also Astrid has some cool OSGeo stickers (the 'cube' one). We can also reimburse the costs to ship them to you, as part of the marketing budget. Thank you again! -jeff On 2016-09-29 2:45 PM, Margherita Di Leo wrote: > Hi all! > At the end of October Anne and I will attend the Google mentor summit in > Mountain View. There will be stickers exchange among attendees and we > think it'd be nice to bring some OSGeo stickers. Does anybody happen to > have some spare ones perhaps left over from previous events and could > mail us? > Thanks in advance > Cheers > Madi > > > -- > Margherita Di Leo
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