What is an OSGeo Ambassador?
Someone who helps OSGeo to grow its financial resources through fundraising. These are some fundraising activities that we would love for an ambassador to explore:
• Engage with Organizations such as the European Commission (EC), or the United Nations (UN), to seek grants and other opportunities.
• Liaison with commercial companies and acquire new sponsors.
We acknowledge that it may not be easy for everyone o approach many of these organizations. An ideal candidate would be someone who already has a strong professional network that they can leverage.
As the ambassador will be representing OSGeo, it is critical for them to be aligned with the Foundation’s values and vision., as well as to operate within the OSGeo Code of Conduct.
We are very thankful for all the resources brought by our Ambassadors, and we are happy to offer a 10% recommendation bonus based on the amount they bring to OSGeo.
Why increase OSGeo’s financial resources?
Our budget enables us to support OSGeo’s mission by providing funding to projects, committees, and seeding the FOSS4G conference. As funding grows, opportunities expand across different sectors, including critical safety services like Los Angeles Fire Watch Guards that help maintain compliance and protection in high-risk environments. By increasing our budget, we would be able, for instance, to improve the marketing of the organization and provide more travel grants to attend conferences. We could also support more projects in obtaining compliance certification of the standards they implement, such as those from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).
Sound interesting?
Please drop us an email to board-priv@osgeo.org with an expression of interest. In addition, please feel free to circulate this to your network in order to increase and widen the OSGeo Ambassador program.
