Eleventh VisCom Meeting Minutes

Meeting was help August 31st, 8AM PST.

Lisa, Michael, Tyler, Arnulf all attended via phone; Michael, Tyler, Arnulf were on IRC.

review of previous meeting minutes

 * marketing guide by Lisa is available in draft
 * it is dense ~9 pages and is first pass
 * ending to viscom list for review, comment, etc. [TODO Lisa]


 * need to check with webcom re: link to PayPal and Cafepress sites [TODO mpg]


 * Lisa talked to PR team re: ZDNet interview from OSCON (they organised it)..
 * more info tomorrow [TODO Lisa]

New business

 * Michael started a general TODO list: VisComToDo
 * will be populating it over time [TODO mpg]


 * Cafepress site
 * Michael set it up and is waiting anxiously for others to buy some things.
 * Will need to propagate to more lists and projects (over time)


 * Drupal update
 * site has been moved to the Open Source Lab infrastructure
 * available at http://community.osgeo.org
 * mpg eager to move content, as always
 * anyone can register to be on the site now; ask webcom if need "editor" role


 * Discussion of logo use, owenership, trademark questions
 * Michael doing up some logo guidelines: TrademarkGuidelines
 * Lisa added some more: TrademarkGuidelinesMore
 * no comments from others; need more comments/review and then pass to Autodesk legal team
 * Jason (WebCom) brought this up, hopefully this addresses his need
 * Arnulf suggest splitting issue into smaller pieces (use of logo on project website? company site?), and then tackle larger/more issues (what about TM of OSGeo name, etc)
 * mpg to draft request for discussion at the F2F [TODO mpg]


 * Logo branding/design help
 * Michael has been looking into a resource to help with different version of logos, colours, etc
 * mpg to report out on this [TODO mpg]


 * Tyler asks about picking next years' events
 * breakdown of events, major class is "base/sponsored"
 * examples: intergeo, foss4g, where, oscon, euro-oscon
 * Arnulf suggests get events on Wiki then decide priorities collaboratively
 * seven notes people want us to attend their events (often at no cost to us)
 * FOSS4G is moving to be more under OSGeo control next year: see OSGeo_Conference_RFP_2007
 * no formal action was taken on this? [TODO who?]