Thirteenth VisCom Meeting

Date and Time

The meeting was October 26th, 2006. Minutes are [here].

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

New Business

• intro of Nathalie from Autodesk

• monthly report/email
  • status, current efforts, e.g. logo work
  • recent press releases
  • upcoming shows
  • current stats / hit counts
  • etc

• Autodesk U. event status

• Prioritized list of events for '07 (first pass from Lisa below)
  • Map World Forum http://www.mapworldforum.org/ January 22-25 Hyderabad, India
  • Third Kuwait International GIS Conference and Exhibition http://www.gulfgis.com/ Feb 19-21 Kuwait
  • OS GIS User's Meeting http://www.sigte.udg.es/jornadassiglibre/ March 5-7 Girona, Spain
  • A of American Geographers http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/SF2007/index.cfm April 17-21 San Francisco
  • ISDE http://www.isde5.org/ June 5-8 San Francisco
  • WHERE 2.0 http://conferences.oreillynet.com/ June 19-20 San Jose
  • Int. Synposium on Remote Sensing of Environment http://www.cenat.ac.cr/simposio/index.htm June 25-29 San Jose, Costa Rica
  • OSCon http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2006/ July 23-27 Portland
  • FOSS4G http://www.foss4g2006.org/ TBD TBD
  • URISA http://www.urisa.org/ Aug 20-23 Washington DC
• Events in German speaking countries
  • FOSSGIS March Berlin, Germany
  • CORP May 20.-23. Vienna, Austria
  • AGIT July 4.-6. Salzburg, Austria
  • Intergeo 2007 Leipzig, September 25-27 Germany
  • KomCom (Germany, there are four separate events Nord, Süd, NRW, Ost in Hannover, 27-28. Februar, Karlsruhe, 8.-9. Mai, Essen, 18.19. September, Leipzig, 13.-14. November. Coordinated by Local Chapter and Autodesk Germany)
  • Several more we are still evaluating: Open source meets business, LinuxTag, Linux World, Linux Kongress, GeoNet Leipzig

• Logo design review