Agenda
Unidata Policy Committee Meeting
Monday and Tuesday, 29-30 October 2007
Unidata Conference Room, FL4 1318
Monday, October 29
8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:30 Administrative Matters (Businger)
- Approve Agenda
- Committee appointments:
- Welcome new members Mike Bevis and Vanda Grubisic
- Committee/staff introductions
- Thank you to outgoing committee member, Jim Koermer
- Set next Meeting Dates
- Approve July 2007 Summary Notes
- Review of action items
from the summer meeting:
- Item 1 : The committee requests that an announcement of the Strategic Plan's completion appear in a featured news item on the UPC home page or in the next CommunitE-letter. Policy Committee member final input should be received prior to that time. (Item complete)
- Item 2: The committee requests that there be a presentation on COSMIC data for the next meeting. (Agenda Item)
- Item 3: Chair, Businger, will work with Unidata staff Miller and Ramamurthy to (from the Users Committee Action Item 14): "develop a short survey to explore the Unidata community's interest in receiving COSMIC data in real-time using the LDM. The Users Committee will have an opportunity to review the survey prior to its distribution to the community." [The survey has been distributed to "dot edu" members of the Unidata community.] (Survey completed, Agenda Item)
8:45 Director's Report (Ramamurthy)
9:45-10:15 Data Flow/Case Studies (Weber, Ramamurthy) (Tab 27)
- Data Flow: quick help guide
- Next Generation Case Studies*
10:15 Break
10:30 Users Committee Report (Lackmann)
10:45 Agency Reports
- NSF (Jacobs)
- National Weather Service (Spayd)
- NASA (de La Beaujardiere)
12:00: Lunch in cafeteria
1:00 Unidata and Climate Data Services* (Tab 28)
What is needed, what is missing, how can Unidata facilitate,
and related items, such as Unidata's contribution to facilitating
IPCC AR5 Data Services
1:45 COSMIC Discussion
- Presentation by Chris Rocken, COSMIC
- Discussion of the survey
- Unidata's role in COSMIC data distribution and analysis/visualization of the data
2:45 Break
3:00 Where should Unidata be in 2013?*
4:30 Developing metrics to measure progress on the Strategic Plan's goals* (Tab 29, 30)
5:15 Adjourn for dinner at Q's
Address: Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St, Boulder, Colorado 80302, 303 442 4880
Tuesday, October 30
8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:30 NSF Facilities Users Workshop: How can Unidata Help with cyberinfrastructure for the field project community?* (Ramamurthy, Wakimoto)
10:00 Break
10:15 Next Steps in Proposal Development (Ramamurthy) (Tab 31)
11:30 Wrap up
12:00 Adjourn
Address questions or comments to Jo Hansen at jhansen@unidata.ucar.edu
*Indicates discussion feeds proposal development
