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

• New members
  • Add Venka as new committee member

• 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
  • develop in Wiki then copy to new Drupal site. mloskot implements a copying machine

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

• Update on Drupal Portal prototype, migration process, new features, etc.

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