Sixteenth VisCom Meeting

Date and Time
The meeting will be on January 31st, 2007, at 16:00 UTC []] (8am PST)

The meeting will take place on IRC at #osgeo and as a [conference call].

Standing Agenda

 * 1) Assign scribe
 * 2) Roll call
 * 3) review of previous meeting's minutes and tasks
 * 4) New Business (below)
 * 5) Review action items
 * 6) Set next meeting date
 * 7) Adjourn

Minutes

 * Full chat log at: http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2007-01-31.log
 * Attending: Tyler Mitchell, Michael Gerlek, Nathalie Mainland, Aaron Racicot, Perry Nacionales, Arnulf Christl

Updating committee membership... Some questions about how involved other members in committee are likely to be.
 * 1) Michael moved to remove Lisa from membership, with a vote of thanks for her earlier contributions, Tyler seconded, all in favour
 * 2) Michael moved to add Aaron Racicot as a member of Viscom, Tyler seconded, all in favour
 * 3) Tyler moved to add Nathalie as member of VisCom, Michael seconded, all in favour
 * 4) Tyler moved to add Perry N. to committee, Arnulf seconded, all in favour, passed

Update from Nathalie...
 * 1) Introducing their work on a project with City of San Francisco, which highlights the use of MapGuide Open Source.  They are aiming for a launch on March 7th, 2007.
 * 2) Answered Nathalie's question re: process for getting news out to public.  Consensus is to send items to VisCom list and we'll help direct it for her if there is any doubt.

Event Management discussion...
 * 1) Michael described tactics for handling events for the next year, as now documented on http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Event_Plan_2007
 * 2) Arnulf pointed us back to the Event Owner requirement http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Event_Management#Event_Owner to help us be effective.
 * 3) Rough discussion centred around funding levels for various size of event, though it was agreed that larger size does always mean more expensive.  He explained the need for better ownership/contact for events.
 * 4) Agreed that VisCom has a monitoring role over owners.
 * 5) Discussed some of the 'major events' that have been brought forward, where we need to be proactive to get prepared to cover.  Several costs were mentioned: financial costs for booth, etc. but also costs to event owner (time) and volunteer resources (time and money).

 more minutes coming...

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 * event management
 * what events do we do in a big way this year? how much money?
 * the biggies
 * Where 2.0 (mpg, but needs successor!)
 * Location Intelligence? (Tyler)
 * OSCON (Aaron)
 * FOSS4G (no work for VisCom, which is nice!)
 * Intergeo 2007 (Arnulf?)
 * Medium Events
 * Digital Earth
 * GITA events ?
 * URISA ?
 * Geotec
 * AGIT 2007 (Arnulf)
 * Small Events
 * CalGIS ?


 * Website Visibility
 * header discussion re: colours


 * Newsletter status


 * Booth materials
 * discuss 3rd party booth prep. / organising


 * other drupal calender