Third VisCom Meeting

Minutes

The minutes for this meeting can be found at Third_VisCom_Meeting_Minutes.

Date and Time

May 11th, 2006, at 15:00 UTC [worldclock link]] (8:00am PST)

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

• US and Canada: 877-326-2337
• International: 303-928 3232
• id code: 3206046#

Agenda

• rollcall (chair)

• update on current membership, from last mtg (mpg)

• Do something about the VisComTODO page. (mpg)

• Marketing Subteam status (Peter)
  • Press Release Process
  • Where 2.0
  • Event Strategy
  • Logos and Banners
  • OSGeo Boilerplate

• Library Subteam status (mpg)

• Outreach Subteam status (Dave)

• Logo contest results, discussion of slogans - see motto_discussion (Daniel?)

• get us a nice magazine article? (mpg)

• There is a bug tracker via CollabNet - is anyone using it? do we want/need to? (mpg}

• Can we move the Event List to its own page (from the main VisComm page)? (mpg)

• (from the TODO list) prepare Web page contents about "What OSGeo is doing" to attract sponsors. This is related to Fundraising. Then forward this material to WebCom (arnulf?)

• (from the TODO list) Setup feedback mechanism for web site. I suppose this ought to be creating artifacts in the bug system, but a feedback email list might be more appropriate. (arnulf?)

• (from the TODO list) Recruit more members on discuss list. What skills are most valuable? (arnulf?)

• (from the TODO list) Do we have a place to put these kind of outreach ideas? Couldn't find one on the wiki (TMitchell)

• (from the TODO list) Consider responding to UK open source for non-profits survey (TMitchell)

• Identify action items (chair)

• Schedule next meeting (chair)