Eighth VisCom Meeting

Date and Time
The meeting was held on July 13th, 2006: Eighth_VisCom_Meeting_Minutes.

Standing Agenda

 * 1) Assign scribe
 * 2) Rollcall (chair)
 * 3) New Business (below)
 * 4) Old Business (below)
 * 5) Review action items (chair)
 * 6) Set next meeting date (chair)
 * 7) Adjourn

New Business

 * 1) high-level talks (mpg)
 * 2) discuss VisCom mission and charter
 * 3) mpg backtracks a bit: let us focus on what we know we need to do now, with the limited resources we have
 * 4) tentative list of Most Important Things We Could Do:
 * 5) event coordination
 * 6) coordinate any outreach/inreach oppos that comes our way
 * 7) provide brochures, white papers, etc
 * 8) press releases
 * 9) update VisCom membership list (mpg)
 * 10) Remove Daniel, add Auke as members of committee
 * 11) put PeterM into stasis; add Kirsten
 * 12) mpg now chair
 * 13) others mods?
 * 14) Upcoming events
 * 15) OSCON Event Logistics, (July 24-28)
 * 16) How to get more shirts?
 * 17) Geoweb - overlap with OSCON ?
 * 18) FOSS4G
 * 19) EurOSCON (smaller)
 * 20) Map World Forum
 * 21) Map Asia 2006
 * 22) next steps for additional Autodesk/OSGeo Shows
 * 23) tracking events
 * 24) what do we have for events pages?
 * 25) need to list: name of event, OSGeo contact person, do we have a booth, list of OSGeo speakers
 * 26) need to add TM to the logo
 * 27) other formats for Tyler?
 * 28) Newsletter plans
 * 29) external
 * 30) internal
 * 31) press release
 * 32) OSGeo is 6 months old
 * 33) MapBender release
 * 34) Open Source in National Interest tie-in
 * 35) OSGeo at OSCon?
 * 36) need new brochures for show attendees:
 * 37) "overview/matrix of all our products"
 * 38) resource list: books, consultants, ...?
 * 39) add new items here
 * 1) add new items here

Old Business

 * 1) review of open issues in CollabNet (chair)
 * 2) (from old TODO list) Operate OSGeo Booth (arnulf)
 * 3) (from old TODO list) Work on https://visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org contents (arnulf)
 * 4) (from old TODO list) Organize translation volunteers. (arnulf)
 * 5) (from old TODO list) prepare Web page contents about "What OSGeo is doing" to attract sponsors. This is related to Fundraising. Then forward this material to WebCom  (arnulf?)
 * 6) (from old TODO list) Setup feedback mechanism for web site.  I suppose this ought to be creating artifacts in the bug system, but a feedback email list might be more appropriate. (arnulf?)
 * 7) (from old TODO list) Recruit more members on discuss list.  What skills are most valuable?  (arnulf?)
 * 8) (held over from 3rd mtg) Can we move the Event List to its own page (from the main VisComm page)?  (mpg)
 * 9) (held over from 5th mtg) Newsletter Notes (not Tyler)