FOSS4G 2012 Meeting 2012-06-26

Present :

From China LOC:

• Ang Gao
• Xun Yan

From International Volunteer Group:

• Cameron Shorter
• Bo Guo
• Tanner Lin

Date & Time:

• June 26th, 2012  7:10 pm - 8:20 pm Beijing Time

Log:

• http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2012-06-26.log

Agenda:

• Website progress?
• Progress on selecting a conference organizer?
• Have LOC made decisions re keynote speakers? (We need not discuss specific speakers in public until they are announced, rather that the process is moving forward)
• Consolidating the program.
• Refining our schedule and checklist of tasks to take us to completion

Minutes:

• Ang discussed about contacting 3SNews, a PCO, for help. Ang forwarded the letter to Cameron
• 3SNews is a media company in GIS, who recently organized this meeting: http://wgdc2012.3snews.net/
• We currently do not have a PCO. Ang suggested bring people from 3S News for our next meeting.
• Ang will contact 3SNews in the morning on PCO arrangement.
• Important functions of the conference website is still buggy or missing. Mymova fixed some bugs but could use help from for testing.
• Tanner and Bo both volunteered to conduct test.  Bo thought changing web maintainer at this point is risky.
• Bo recommended to have tester direct access to the developer could speed up the bug fix process.  Xun will be responsible for contacting Mymova web maintenance related issues frequently.
• Cameron stated that need to break the project down into tasks and start active and constant management.
• Ang indicated difficult to assign tasks to LOC members, such as responding to emails, sending invitation letters to participant for visa applications.
• It was decided to use collaborative cloud site for tasks list maintenance.  Bo and Tanner will set it up as a start.

Wrap-up Tasks:

• Ang on PCO
• Tanner on mailbox management
• Tanner and Bo on testing Skydrive
• Bo post the task list on Skydrive
• Xun and Tanner on website maintenance.