Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] sponsor benefits

[Jody Garnett]

Thanks for the clarification Marc; I did not want to volunteer the
marketing committee (small that we are) for more work. If you would like to
act as point you are welcome to it; let's sort it out next meeting.

(That said we will need to set up a schedule to make sure the booth covered
during the conference; preferably one that will let Anita attend a few
talks)

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On 8 March 2017 at 11:54, Marc Vloemans  wrote:

> Jody et al,
>
> I believe it is the Marketing Committee's task to arrange the OSGeo booth.
> That is how we did it in Bonn; with the LOC we determine a representative
> location on the conference floor  including light And power And furniture.
> At no cost ;-)
> Booth is decorated And (wo)manned by the committee reps on the premises.
>
> In order to honour the arrangements with sponsors new banners are printed
> (best locally done).
>
> Would be best If Guido And I have direct contact. More efficiënt.
>
> Kind regards,
> Marc Vloemans
>
>
> Op 22 feb. 2017 om 16:26 heeft Jody Garnett  het
> volgende geschreven:
>
> I am not sure myself so I was using disc...@osgeo.org.
>
> For booth stuff there is some organization on the wiki from prior years:
> - https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2015_OSGeo_Booth (Thanks Jeff!)
> - https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_OSGeo_Booth (Thanks everyone,
> and Anita who was there each time I visited)
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 22 February 2017 at 10:19, Guido Stein  wrote:
>
>> I will be talking to Anthony more about the B2B and I will be happy to
>> continue to sus out the booth stuff.
>>
>> Should I report back to this list and/or the wiki somewhere?
>>
>> -guido
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 9:33 AM Jody Garnett 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> So coming out of this meeting there are a bunch of good ideas - but we
>>> will need volunteers to run them to ground.
>>>
>>> I am going to clean up the web pages a bit:
>>>
>>> - http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities (need to update this
>>> page for 2017 based on http://www.osgeo.org/node/1755 blog post).
>>> - http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship
>>>
>>> Guido are you happy to take on the "networking event" ideas for foss4g?
>>> It sounds like you had a b2b event already being planned.
>>>
>>> How to handle the OSGeo booth (at foss4g and other events) has been a
>>> bit random. I do not know if I should start with the board or the marketing
>>> committee.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
>>> On 20 February 2017 at 18:47, Jody Garnett 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks to those who participated in OSGeo sponsors chat this morning,
>>> here are some notes for the email list.
>>>
>>> I would like to highlight two common themes:
>>>
>>> The organizations represented in the meeting already very generous with
>>> their time and resources (even before it comes to question of
>>> sponsorship).  We need to reach out to new organizations that are
>>> benefiting from the work we do at OSGeo and are not engaging as part of our
>>> community.
>>>
>>> There is lots that can be done for sponsors, beyond placing sponsor
>>> logos on a website. This is something I would ask us all to work on (foss4g
>>> global, regional events, projects and our foundation as a whole).
>>>
>>> Here are those notes
>>> --
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
>>>
>>> Attending:
>>>
>>>- Anthony Calamito (Boundless)
>>>- Jody Garnett (OSGeo Board)
>>>- Simone Giannecchini(GeoSolutions) -
>>>- Regina Obe (Pargagon Corporation / FOSS4G Boston)
>>>- Michael Smith (OSGeo Board / Treasurer)
>>>- Guido Stein (FOSS4G Boston)
>>>- Jeroen Ticheler (GeoCat)
>>>- Angelos Tzotsos (OSGeo)
>>>
>>> 1) Introductions
>>>
>>>
>>> 2) Review of what OSGeo currently offers sponsors:
>>>
>>>- Sponsorship 2017
>>>
>>> 
>>>- http://www.osgeo.org/node/1755
>>>
>>> 3) Ideas and Feedback
>>>
>>>
>>> *Simone (GeoSolutions)*
>>>
>>>
>>> Reaching out for sponsors is fine, by why approach the companies on this
>>> call, each of which already support OSGeo (often directly contributing
>>> time).
>>>
>>>
>>> Q: Where are the organizations those who profit from this?
>>>
>>>
>>> Feedback on sponsoring local events, often they just want to accept
>>> money and have no futher contact/engagement with sponsors.  Example of
>>> sponsoring a local (Italian?) event not considering a GeoServer talk as the
>>> project is already too famous...
>>>
>>>
>>> *This is a difficult feedback to address as we do not directly
>>> control/influence events put on by local chapters. I would kind of be
>>> content for these events to be avoided by sponsors if they cannot be
>>> bothered to provide value.*
>>>
>>>
>>> *Anthony (Boundless)*
>>>
>>>
>>> Asking OSGeo Sponsorship to look "beyond providing a logo on the
>>> website". Look for more opportunities for 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] istSOS

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Utkarsh!

I believe I just chatted with you on IRC in the #osgeo-gsoc channel. 
Please be sure to join the istSOS forum and introduce yourself and your 
interests there (join their forum at 
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/istsos).  And thank you for your 
interest in OSGeo projects, and helping the Open Source community! :)


On behalf of GSOC 2017 admins,

-jeff


--
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President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna




On 2017-03-08 6:07 PM, Utkarsh Gupta wrote:

Hey, I am interested in the proposed idea "Data analysis and statistical
tools from sensor data" on page link
.
I tried findinf the irc channel of istSOS but didn't find any. Can
anyone help me with interacting with the developers, maintainers or
possible mentors of the project so that I can discuss the project idea
further?

Thanks!

Utkarsh Gupta
B.Tech Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (Class of 2018)
www.utkarshgpta.com






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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] sponsor benefits

[Marc Vloemans]

Jody et al,

I believe it is the Marketing Committee's task to arrange the OSGeo booth. 
That is how we did it in Bonn; with the LOC we determine a representative 
location on the conference floor  including light And power And furniture. At 
no cost ;-)
Booth is decorated And (wo)manned by the committee reps on the premises.

In order to honour the arrangements with sponsors new banners are printed (best 
locally done).

Would be best If Guido And I have direct contact. More efficiënt. 

Kind regards,
Marc Vloemans


> Op 22 feb. 2017 om 16:26 heeft Jody Garnett  het 
> volgende geschreven:
> 
> I am not sure myself so I was using disc...@osgeo.org.
> 
> For booth stuff there is some organization on the wiki from prior years:
> - https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2015_OSGeo_Booth (Thanks Jeff!)
> - https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_OSGeo_Booth (Thanks everyone, and 
> Anita who was there each time I visited)
> 
> --
> Jody Garnett
> 
>> On 22 February 2017 at 10:19, Guido Stein  wrote:
>> I will be talking to Anthony more about the B2B and I will be happy to 
>> continue to sus out the booth stuff. 
>> 
>> Should I report back to this list and/or the wiki somewhere?
>> 
>> -guido
>> 
>>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 9:33 AM Jody Garnett  wrote:
>>> So coming out of this meeting there are a bunch of good ideas - but we will 
>>> need volunteers to run them to ground.
>>> 
>>> I am going to clean up the web pages a bit:
>>> 
>>> - http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities (need to update this page 
>>> for 2017 based on http://www.osgeo.org/node/1755 blog post).
>>> - http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship
>>> 
>>> Guido are you happy to take on the "networking event" ideas for foss4g? It 
>>> sounds like you had a b2b event already being planned.
>>> 
>>> How to handle the OSGeo booth (at foss4g and other events) has been a bit 
>>> random. I do not know if I should start with the board or the marketing 
>>> committee.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Jody Garnett
>>> 
>>> On 20 February 2017 at 18:47, Jody Garnett  wrote:
>>> Thanks to those who participated in OSGeo sponsors chat this morning, here 
>>> are some notes for the email list.
>>> 
>>> I would like to highlight two common themes:
>>> 
>>> The organizations represented in the meeting already very generous with 
>>> their time and resources (even before it comes to question of sponsorship). 
>>>  We need to reach out to new organizations that are benefiting from the 
>>> work we do at OSGeo and are not engaging as part of our community.
>>> 
>>> There is lots that can be done for sponsors, beyond placing sponsor logos 
>>> on a website. This is something I would ask us all to work on (foss4g 
>>> global, regional events, projects and our foundation as a whole).
>>> 
>>> Here are those notes
>>> --
>>> Jody Garnett
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Attending:
>>> Anthony Calamito (Boundless)
>>> Jody Garnett (OSGeo Board)
>>> Simone Giannecchini(GeoSolutions) - 
>>> Regina Obe (Pargagon Corporation / FOSS4G Boston)
>>> Michael Smith (OSGeo Board / Treasurer)
>>> Guido Stein (FOSS4G Boston)
>>> Jeroen Ticheler (GeoCat)
>>> Angelos Tzotsos (OSGeo)
>>> 1) Introductions
>>> 
>>> 2) Review of what OSGeo currently offers sponsors:
>>> Sponsorship 2017
>>> http://www.osgeo.org/node/1755
>>> 3) Ideas and Feedback
>>> 
>>> Simone (GeoSolutions)
>>> 
>>> Reaching out for sponsors is fine, by why approach the companies on this 
>>> call, each of which already support OSGeo (often directly contributing 
>>> time).
>>> 
>>> Q: Where are the organizations those who profit from this?
>>> 
>>> Feedback on sponsoring local events, often they just want to accept money 
>>> and have no futher contact/engagement with sponsors.  Example of sponsoring 
>>> a local (Italian?) event not considering a GeoServer talk as the project is 
>>> already too famous...
>>> 
>>> This is a difficult feedback to address as we do not directly 
>>> control/influence events put on by local chapters. I would kind of be 
>>> content for these events to be avoided by sponsors if they cannot be 
>>> bothered to provide value.
>>> 
>>> Anthony (Boundless)
>>> 
>>> Asking OSGeo Sponsorship to look "beyond providing a logo on the website". 
>>> Look for more opportunities for visibility and promotion.
>>> More press releases (not only the joint press release offered to gold / 
>>> platinum sponsors). 
>>> Co-branding activities and announcements.
>>> The UN OpenGIS initiative was used as an example; something that both OSGeo 
>>> and Boundless is supporting and can benefit from cross promotion. 
>>> Maria is our best contact here, we will need to reach out and explore what 
>>> can be done.
>>> GeoServer is an example of a project that handles cross promotion. Releases 
>>> of GeoSever take care to link to external blog posts highlighting RnD that 
>>> went into each release. When new features have been added based on 
>>> consulting 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] sponsor benefits

[Jody Garnett]

Visiting the http://foss4g-africa.org website I cannot see any way to
sponsor the event. Do you have any additional information on how much money
you are looking for and what sponsors can expect in return?

I apologize if I am somehow missing this detail from the website.

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On 23 February 2017 at 06:17, Serena Coetzee 
wrote:

> Dear Jody,
>
> There will be an OSGeo-UN Hackathon on Saturday 1 July - it is a
> 'Postconference Codesprint / Hackfest / OSGeo-UN Hackathon’ to be hosted at
> the JCSE (Johannesburg Centre for Software Engineering) see
> https://foss4g-africa.org/en/programme/. I have CC’d Gavin Fleming who is
> running with it, and can add more information.
>
> Also, I’ll appreciate if you could add FOSS4G Africa 2017 to the list
> under ‘Event sponsorship’ at http://www.osgeo.org/
> sponsorship/opportunities. The conference website is at
> http://foss4g-africa.org.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Serena Coetzee
>
> Geography Building 3-5
> Centre for Geoinformation Science, Department Geography, Geoinformatics
> and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028,
> South Africa
> email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis · Mobile: +27 82
> 464 4294 <+27%2082%20464%204294> · Tel: +27 12 420 3823
> <+27%2012%20420%203823>
>
>
> On 22 Feb 2017, at 19:33, Maria Antonia Brovelli 
> wrote:
>
> The Hackathon will be organized by Serena and colleagues.
>
>
> Serena, please, can you provide more pieces of info in such a way to
> advertise about it?
>
>
> Best,
>
> Maria
>
>
>
>
> **
> *Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli*
> Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing
> Politecnico di Milano
>
> ISPRS WG IV/4"Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)" http://www2.
> isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html, Board of Directors of OSGeo;
> GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET Advisory
> Board
>
> UN-GGIM Italy, UN-GGIM Academic Network Task Team, UN OpenGIS Initiative
> (Chair of the Capacity Building WG)
>
> *Sol Katz Award 2015*
>
>
> P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
> Tel. +39-02-23996242 <+39%2002%202399%206242> - Mob. +39-328-0023867
> <+39%20328%20002%203867>,   maria.
> brove...@polimi.it
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> *Da:* Discuss  per conto di Jody Garnett
> 
> *Inviato:* mercoledì 22 febbraio 2017 16.19
> *A:* OSGeo Discussions
> *Oggetto:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] sponsor benefits
>
> Website updated - http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities
>
> Maria do you have any more details I can link on to on the "OSGeo-UN
> Hackathon"? I know it was a fund raising target set in January and I would
> love to have more details to pass on here.
>
>
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 22 February 2017 at 09:33, Jody Garnett  wrote:
>
>> So coming out of this meeting there are a bunch of good ideas - but we
>> will need volunteers to run them to ground.
>>
>> I am going to clean up the web pages a bit:
>>
>> - http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities (need to update this
>> page for 2017 based on http://www.osgeo.org/node/1755 blog post).
>> - http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship
>>
>> Guido are you happy to take on the "networking event" ideas for foss4g?
>> It sounds like you had a b2b event already being planned.
>>
>> How to handle the OSGeo booth (at foss4g and other events) has been a bit
>> random. I do not know if I should start with the board or the marketing
>> committee.
>>
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>> On 20 February 2017 at 18:47, Jody Garnett 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks to those who participated in OSGeo sponsors chat this morning,
>>> here are some notes for the email list.
>>>
>>> I would like to highlight two common themes:
>>>
>>> The organizations represented in the meeting already very generous with
>>> their time and resources (even before it comes to question of
>>> sponsorship).  We need to reach out to new organizations that are
>>> benefiting from the work we do at OSGeo and are not engaging as part of our
>>> community.
>>>
>>> There is lots that can be done for sponsors, beyond placing sponsor
>>> logos on a website. This is something I would ask us all to work on (foss4g
>>> global, regional events, projects and our foundation as a whole).
>>>
>>> Here are those notes
>>> --
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
>>>
>>> Attending:
>>>
>>>- Anthony Calamito (Boundless)
>>>- Jody Garnett (OSGeo Board)
>>>- Simone Giannecchini(GeoSolutions) -
>>>- Regina Obe (Pargagon Corporation / FOSS4G Boston)
>>>- Michael Smith (OSGeo Board / Treasurer)
>>>- Guido Stein (FOSS4G Boston)
>>>- Jeroen Ticheler (GeoCat)
>>>- Angelos Tzotsos (OSGeo)
>>>
>>> 1) Introductions
>>>
>>> 2) Review of what OSGeo currently offers sponsors:
>>>
>>>- Sponsorship 2017

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] GSoC Mentors - Action required!

[Margherita Di Leo]

Luca,

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Luca Delucchi  wrote:

> On 8 March 2017 at 16:21, Margherita Di Leo  wrote:
> > Dear Luca,
> >
>
> Dear Madi,
>
> >
> > Thank you for your feedback, we value constructive comments... however,
> I'd
> > like to remind you that we are volunteers, and try to do our best for the
> > common goal of attracting new developers to our community. We count on
> the
> > active collaboration of mentors to do that. We have been managing an
> > enormous amount of students/mentors/projects. I understand that this is
> not
> > visible from outside, but you need to trust me if I tell you that we need
> > the collaboration of mentors. In honesty, I don't think that we require
> too
> > much. However, if following simple instructions is too much for you, then
> > you probably need to ask yourself if you have enough time/energy/will to
> > mentor. We prefer to stick on less projects but well mentored, rather
> than a
> > lot of projects in which we end up filling the gaps of unwilling mentors.
> >
>
> I was the second one responding to your request to fill the wiki page,
> so I have time to follow GSOC. When I filled the table there was no
> instruction how to compile that field [0] (usually I'm able to read
> and follow instructions),


Well, indeed, sorry if we can't predict all possible human behavior, and
therefore need to adjust instructions according to what people come up
with. Usually a simple email asking for instructions is useful for everyone
to clarify.


> I also think that info about ideas for each
> mentor in that table is a copy of information provided by the proposal
> page of each OSGeo project.


The page you are talking about is the only page we use for mentor to
subscribe, is for our (admins) use, to know who to invite from the GSoC
website.


> For example  adding myself should I add
> there only ideas where I'm the main mentor or also where I'm
> co-mentor?


You need to add all ideas you make yourself available to mentor, so also
co-mentor.


> There are mentor with tons of idea should they add all??
>

Yes.

>
> In addition how student could arrive to the proposal page without a
> link to it?


The section mentors of the administrative page is not intended for students
consultation, it's for administration purpose. In fact we address students
to browse the ideas page and the recommendations for students.


> (yes it should go on top of the page -> clicking of link
> for osgeo proposal and from this page look for the interested project
> and finally arrive to the right page) I continue to think that the
> link is the best option for that table
>

This is the same format that we have been using for several years now, with
no complains. I don't think useful to change it as everyone seems to have
familiarized with it but you.

>
> I would like to remember that all of us are volunteering, and we have
> to share our energy/time with several projects/activities, so if you
> "need the collaboration of mentors" please keep GSOC as simple as
> possible
>

Again, Luca. We highly value and appreciate mentors volunteered time, but
we expect them to respect our time and work as well.

Regards,



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] GSoC Mentors - Action required!

[Margherita Di Leo]

Dear Luca,

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Luca Delucchi  wrote:

> On 8 March 2017 at 14:33, Margherita Di Leo  wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
>
> Dear,
>
> > at today, we have only 9 registered mentors, which I believe is not the
> > final number. If you are willing to mentor a student for Google Summer of
> > Code, here's what to do: add yourself here [1], clearly indicating the
> > *title* of the idea you are willing to mentor (no link to ideas page,
> > please). I will then send you an invite to join the OSGeo organization on
> > the GSoC website.
>
> maybe the mentor doesn't apply because every year there are more
> actions to do, for example I received three mail to change a link with
> the name of projects in a wiki page (instead send me a mail you could
> just modify the wiki page), so at the end I completely removed my
> name.
> Please take GSOC as simpler as possible!
>

Thank you for your feedback, we value constructive comments... however, I'd
like to remind you that we are volunteers, and try to do our best for the
common goal of attracting new developers to our community. We count on the
active collaboration of mentors to do that. We have been managing an
enormous amount of students/mentors/projects. I understand that this is not
visible from outside, but you need to trust me if I tell you that we need
the collaboration of mentors. In honesty, I don't think that we require too
much. However, if following simple instructions is too much for you, then
you probably need to ask yourself if you have enough time/energy/will to
mentor. We prefer to stick on less projects but well mentored, rather than
a lot of projects in which we end up filling the gaps of unwilling mentors.

Best regards,


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[OSGeo-Discuss] GSoC Mentors - Action required!

[Margherita Di Leo]

Dear All,

at today, we have only 9 registered mentors, which I believe is not the
final number. If you are willing to mentor a student for Google Summer of
Code, here's what to do: add yourself here [1], clearly indicating the
*title* of the idea you are willing to mentor (no link to ideas page,
please). I will then send you an invite to join the OSGeo organization on
the GSoC website.
The Google Summer of Code program is a great way to attract new developers
and expand our software communities. Moreover, I would really much like to
see more of our former GSoC students engaging in mentoring this year's
fellows students.
Please, forward this email to your software communities!

Kind regards,


[1]
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Administrative#Mentors

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