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This meeting was entirely via IRC ([http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2006-07-20.log 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 (and Lisa) may have idears on how to "recruit"
** recruiting falls within our remit, perhaps
** Fishbowl? clipboard?
** 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.'''

* Logo Usage Guidelines
** '''Tyler to start a "guidelines" and "usage" page, for us to kick around'''

== Action Items ==
# Tyler: follow up with Ian Turton see if he can help with booth at geoweb, let Kirsten (Autodesk) know.
# Who?: Need volunteer to be VisCom conf. organising contact for Autodesk at EuroOSCON. Have alread set up single contacts for Autodesk at certain conferences: Tyler (OSCON), Michael (Geoweb), Arnulf (FOSS4G), EuroOSCON (*?*)
# Kirsten: Disc. MapAsia and World Map Forum with [https://visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=596 Venka] re: possibility of helping with an OSGeo booth.
# Tyler: See if GeoWeb passes are available for Aaron K/others.
# All: Consider short vs long term goals/priorities for VisCom
# Michael: To review and clarify committee wiki page re: priorities
# Tyler: Follow up with Alain re: VisCom membership
# All: Dave M. to be removed from committee, to focus on Fundraising
# Michael: Revamp events page, setup for adding more details/launching point on wiki
# All: Start adding TM symbol to our logo
# All: Need logo usage guidelines and icons (i.e. "Powered by OSGeo") in various formats
# All: Consider how to join, membership benefits
# Michael: Press release

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 ** Fishbowl? clipboard?
 ** benefits: certain pay levels get you shirts, business cards, ... ("Happy Meal" model)
-** [http://spatialguru.com/tmp/osgeo_card1.pdf example card]
+** <s>[http://spatialguru.com/tmp/osgeo_card1.pdf example card]</s>
 ** keep this on the agenda for future

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 * OSGeo Membership
-** Tyler (and Lisa) may have idears on how to "recruit"
+** Tyler may have idears on how to "recruit"
 ** recruiting falls within our remit, perhaps
 ** Fishbowl? clipboard?
 ** keep this on the agenda for future
@@ Line 43: / Line 46: @@
 ** '''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.'''
-* Logo Usage Guidelines
+* Misc
-** '''Tyler to start a "guidelines" and "usage" page, for us to kick around'''
+** '''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
-== Action Items ==
+** newsletter: we just need volunteers, can leverage GRASS work, etc; could include reports from committees, board, etc