Tenth VisCom Meeting

Date and Time
(This meeting was originally scheduled for August 3rd, but was moved to August 8th as mpg had a conflict. Due to lack of a quorum on the 8th, it has been rescheduled to the 17th.)

The meeting took place on conference call and IRC on August 17th, 2006, at 15:00 UTC.

Minutes: Tenth VisCom Meeting Minutes

Standing Agenda

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

New Business

 * New members
 * Add Venka as new committee member
 * LisaL role clarification


 * Event overload!
 * discuss forking off an EventCom team of some sort


 * Hawaii event (Intergraph?)
 * as per Frank's mail of Aug 7th
 * any volunteers to, umm, go to Hawaii?


 * IncCom support
 * need list of collateral "strongly desired" at graduation
 * one-paragraph blurb, one page write-up, screenshot or two, logo, ...


 * Update on Drupal Portal prototype, migration process, new features, etc.
 * mpg willing to move all VisCom pages to Drupal
 * does drupal supplant the much-loved wiki?
 * does drupal support "files", e.g. for the library?


 * Events page
 * develop in Wiki then copy to new Drupal site. mloskot implements a copying machine
 * mpg would like to see some drupally magic


 * Library
 * Clean out, make docs editable (odt, odp, eps?)
 * Provide for high res logo, banner, posters


 * Membership sign-up process
 * presumably desired for FOSS4G etc
 * anyone have a status report?
 * mpg would like sign-up form to (optionally) include affiliation type (NGO, academic, mulinational conglomerate, etc)
 * mpg envisions some sort of auto-notification system ("these 8 people joined today: ...")


 * Shirts and Business Cards
 * mpg is on the shirt path again -- others asking to buy, a few to give away to VIPs
 * FOSS4G et al


 * Booth upgrade status?
 * we budgeted something at the F2F for this -- how to proceed?

Old Business

 * OSCON
 * Feedback and review from attendees


 * FOSS4G
 * need to make sure FOSS4G is covered whilst Arnulf is away
 * Consider additional translations for brochures (german, french, italian)
 * Final brochures must be complete within 2 weeks for printing in time
 * FOSS4G banner on osgeo.org?


 * EuroOSCON
 * Event Owner for EuroOSCON is Arnulf


 * Events management
 * mpg to do up a "list of Event Owner tasks" page
 * mpg still not happy with Events page, wants more process


 * MapAsia and World Map Forum
 * Venka to give update if available


 * Need "feature matrix comparison" brochure
 * see thread on discuss mailing list from July '06


 * Membership / Recruiting
 * (discussed at ninth meeting)
 * need to get ideas for this


 * Web site stats
 * mpg to get website hit stats, etc (from auke)


 * Logo Usage
 * Tyler to start a logo "guidelines" and "usage" page, for us to kick around


 * Press Releases
 * need a press release for October prior Intergeo 2006
 * need to try again and get a Translation team together


 * Strategy
 * TODO: start a Strategy page, sync with FunCom - broadly solicit general ideas


 * Newsletter
 * Tyler to give update
 * we just need volunteers, can leverage GRASS work, etc; could include reports from committees, board, etc
 * discussed at ninth meeting