Minutes - 24 July 2008
Bremen, Germany
Present: D Swayne (chair), A Buja, D Cook, H Hofmann, M Lawrence, H Wickham
Minutes of 7 August 2007
Motion to Approve [Di, Michael]
Approved
Treasurers report
Presented by Di Cook
Motion to Approve [Hadley, Michael]
Approved
GGobi book
- 180 subscribed to mailing list
- 300 downloads in last month
- 476 copies sold
- Expected from $2,500 book sales
Planned activities
Best interactive graphics screencast
- 1 prize for GGobi, 1 prize for more
- $200 prize, + free signed copy of GGobi book
- really interesting/obscure/unusual data
- good example problems for specific feature of GGobi
GGobi hack-at-it
- more formal proceedings
- GGobi user group afternoon (siggobi) - attached to JSM
- contact mailing list
- workshop in the morning
- hack at it 2 days before
Virtual hack-at-its: try and do every week.
October, US army conference. Di giving R introduction
Action items
- Debby and Andreas to suggest possible venues for GGobi hack-at-it
- Di to touch base with Washington contacts re: room for tutorial