Tenth VisCom Meeting

=== Date and Time ===
(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.)
The meeting took place on conference call and IRC on August 17th, 2006, at 15:00 UTC.
Minutes: Tenth VisCom Meeting Minutes
=== Standing Agenda ===
# Assign scribe
# Roll call (chair)
# New Business (below)
# Old Business (below)
# Review action items (chair)
# Set next meeting date (chair)
# Adjourn
=== New Business ===
* New members
** Add Venka as new committee member
** LisaL role clarification
* Event overload!
** discuss forking off an EventCom team of some sort 
* 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, ...
* Update on Drupal Portal prototype, migration process, new features, etc.
** mpg willing to move all VisCom pages to Drupal
** does drupal supplant the much-loved wiki?
** does drupal support "files", e.g. for the library?
* Events page
** develop in Wiki then copy to new Drupal site. mloskot implements a copying machine
** mpg would like to see some drupally magic
* Library
** Clean out, make docs editable (odt, odp, eps?)
** Provide for high res logo, banner, posters
* Membership sign-up process
** presumably desired for FOSS4G etc
** anyone have a status report?
** mpg would like sign-up form to (optionally) include affiliation type (NGO, academic, mulinational conglomerate, etc)
** mpg envisions some sort of auto-notification system ("these 8 people joined today: ...")
* Shirts and Business Cards
** mpg is on the shirt path again -- others asking to buy, a few to give away to VIPs
** FOSS4G et al
* Booth upgrade status?
** we budgeted something at the F2F for this -- how to proceed?
=== 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
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