Ninth VisCom Meeting Minutes

This meeting was entirely via IRC (IRC log) on July 20th, 2006, from 9:00am to 10:00 PST. Present were mpg (as chair and scribe) and Tyler (as deputy-co-assistant-vice-chair).

We covered "new" business", and also scrubbed out a lot of the "old" business. Action items are in bold. Minutes are organized by subject, not chronologically.

• Committee membership (all)
  • DaveM was removed (will be doing Fun things)
  • Peter remains in limbo, Lisa Landers to join us soon
  • Alain has been bust, but still involved with us

• Events / OSCON (Tyler)
  • Gary L's doing a keynote
  • we have a whole 45 minute OSGeo session: Jo Walsh, Mark Lucas, Aaron Racicot all presenting
  • distributing some of the free passes, inc. 2 to Portland State Univ. students
  • BOF meeting, organised by locals, inc. PSU's osgis user group
  • two of our folks to attend the exclusive "Executive Briefing" event thing
  • shirts ordered!
  • overview brochure done up by Tyler (Tyler to post on website)

• Events / GeoWeb (Michael)
  • no free passes from Autodesk to give away
  • meetup event trying to happen, mpg to work on it
  • mpg to ask Ian to hang out at booth?
  • Gary is keynoting
  • mpg is presenting and panelling and workshopping
  • Ian is presenting
  • mpg to get some brochures and whatnot done up for the ADSK booth

• OSGeo Membership
  • Tyler may have idears on how to "recruit"
  • LisaL has ideas too, from previous jobs (Bentley, Intergraph)
  • recruiting falls within our remit, perhaps
  • Fishbowl? clipboard?
  • benefits: certain pay levels get you shirts, business cards, ... ("Happy Meal" model)
  • example card
  • keep this on the agenda for future

• Press Releases (mpg)
  • the "6-month" one went out
  • got picked up in a lot of places
  • mpg to get website hit stats, etc (from auke)
  • mpg wants a press release evey quarter or so

• Events / Future
  • need to make sure FOSS4G is covered whilst Arnulf is away
  • need an owner for EuroOSCON -- possibly Schuyler+zool?
  • mpg to do up a "list of Event Owner tasks" page
  • Kirsten: Disc. MapAsia and World Map Forum with Venka re: possibility of helping w/ OSGeo booth.
  • mpg still not happy with Events page, wants more process

• Misc
  • Tyler to start a logo "guidelines" and "usage" page, for us to kick around
  • need to try again and get a Translation team together
  • TODO: start a Strategy page, sync with FunCom - broadly solicit general ideas
  • newsletter: we just need volunteers, can leverage GRASS work, etc; could include reports from committees, board, etc