Tenth VisCom Meeting

Date and Time
The meeting will be on August 17th, 2006, at 15:00 UTC [worldclock]] (8am PST)

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

(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.)

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

 * 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, ...


 * Events page
 * I know, I know, we have two of them. That's not good.

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
 * need an owner for EuroOSCON - 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
 * Kirsten to discuss with Venka re: possibility of helping w/ OSGeo booth


 * 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-ish
 * 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