Ninth VisCom Meeting Minutes

This meeting was entirely via IRC (IRC log) on July 20th, 2006, from 9:00am to 10:00 PST. Present were mpg (as chair and scribe) and Tyler (as deputy-co-assistant-vice-chair).

We covered "new" business", and also scrubbed out a lot of the "old" business. Action items are in bold.  Minutes are organized by subject, not chronologically.


 * Committee membership (all)
 * DaveM was removed (will be doing Fun things)
 * Peter remains in limbo, Lisa Landers to join us soon
 * Alain has been bust, but still involved with us


 * Events / OSCON (Tyler)
 * Gary L's doing a keynote
 * we have a whole 45 minute OSGeo session: Jo Walsh, Mark Lucas, Aaron Racicot all presenting
 * distributing some of the free passes, inc. 2 to Portland State Univ. students
 * BOF meeting, organised by locals, inc. PSU's osgis user group
 * two of our folks to attend the exclusive "Executive Briefing" event thing
 * shirts ordered!
 * overview brochure done up by Tyler (Tyler to post on website)


 * Events / GeoWeb (Michael)
 * no free passes from Autodesk to give away
 * meetup event trying to happen, mpg to work on it
 * mpg to ask Ian to hang out at booth?
 * Gary is keynoting
 * mpg is presenting and panelling and workshopping
 * Ian is presenting
 * mpg to get some brochures and whatnot done up for the ADSK booth


 * OSGeo Membership
 * Tyler may have idears on how to "recruit"
 * LisaL has ideas too, from previous jobs (Bentley, Intergraph)
 * recruiting falls within our remit, perhaps
 * Fishbowl? clipboard?
 * benefits: certain pay levels get you shirts, business cards, ... ("Happy Meal" model)
 * example card
 * keep this on the agenda for future


 * Press Releases (mpg)
 * the "6-month" one went out
 * got picked up in a lot of places
 * mpg to get website hit stats, etc (from auke)
 * mpg wants a press release evey quarter or so


 * Events / Future
 * need to make sure FOSS4G is covered whilst Arnulf is away
 * need an owner for EuroOSCON -- possibly Schuyler+zool?
 * mpg to do up a "list of Event Owner tasks" page
 * Kirsten: Disc. MapAsia and World Map Forum with Venka re: possibility of helping w/ OSGeo booth.
 * mpg still not happy with Events page, wants more process


 * Misc
 * Tyler to start a logo "guidelines" and "usage" page, for us to kick around
 * need to try again and get a Translation team together
 * TODO: start a Strategy page, sync with FunCom - broadly solicit general ideas
 * newsletter: we just need volunteers, can leverage GRASS work, etc; could include reports from committees, board, etc