Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Marketing meeting to finalise definition of an OSGeo Ambassador role

2012-06-08 Thread Free
Hello, I agree with this new name, look much better. Y. Le jeudi 7 juin 2012 19:00:34 nicolas bozon a écrit : +1 Nick 2012/6/7 Jo Cook joc...@astuntechnology.com Hi Cameron, Sorry I couldn't make the meeting- I'm happy with the change of name, so +1 from Jo on OSGeo Advocate as

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Marketing meeting to finalise definition of an OSGeo Ambassador role

2012-06-07 Thread Jo Cook
Hi Cameron, Sorry I couldn't make the meeting- I'm happy with the change of name, so +1 from Jo on OSGeo Advocate as a name for this new role Jo On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.comwrote: Minutes of this meeting are here:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Marketing meeting to finalise definition of an OSGeo Ambassador role

2012-05-31 Thread Jo Cook
:* discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Daniel P. Ames [dan.a...@isu.edu] *Sent:* Thursday, May 31, 2012 4:41 AM *To:* Cameron Shorter *Cc:* OSGeo Marketing; Jo Cook; OSGeo Discussions *Subject:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Marketing meeting to finalise

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Marketing meeting to finalise definition of an OSGeo Ambassador role

2012-05-31 Thread Jeroen Ticheler
Dear Puneet, The idea is that conference organizers usually look for people to give keynotes etcetera at their event that have a higher than average visibility so they will attract a large audience to the conference in order to make it a success. Isn't it kind of natural to have such leaders

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Marketing meeting to finalise definition of an OSGeo Ambassador role

2012-05-31 Thread Puneet Kishor
top posting... To be clear, I am completely for the need that the proposed ambassadors would fulfill. I am against -- 1. Creating another level of organizational complexity; and 2. The club-ish language in the proposal that seems to create a subjective value-laden hierarchy. I personally

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Marketing meeting to finalise definition of an OSGeo Ambassador role

2012-05-31 Thread Jeroen Ticheler
Thanks Puneet, Good to have some sharpening opinions here that reveal that most of us likely agree with the need for an easy to find pool of prominent OSGeo ambassadors. And yes, also those promotors that are not CMs could be Ambassadors in my opinion. It would just be nice if they connected

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Marketing meeting to finalise definition of an OSGeo Ambassador role

2012-05-31 Thread Cameron Shorter
Based on feedback from a number of you, I've update the wiki and endeavoured to simply the Ambassador role. I've removed the concept of Categories, and have instead changed it to: Understanding OSGeo Roles http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Ambassador#Understanding_OSGeo_roles All ambassadors

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Marketing meeting to finalise definition of an OSGeo Ambassador role

2012-05-30 Thread Cameron Shorter
On 31/05/2012 12:08 AM, Jo Cook wrote: My thoughts- initially I thought the idea was too complicated, but if we envisage outside organisations/conferences coming to us for speakers, then we will need something like you suggest. I wonder, in all honesty, how much that is going to happen, but at

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Marketing meeting to finalise definition of an OSGeo Ambassador role

2012-05-30 Thread Suchith Anand
From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Daniel P. Ames [dan.a...@isu.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 4:41 AM To: Cameron Shorter Cc: OSGeo Marketing; Jo Cook; OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Marketing meeting to finalise