Agenda
Unidata Policy Committee
9-10 October 2003
Boulder, Colorado
8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:30 Administrative Matters (Merrill)
- Adopt Agenda
- New member introduction
- May 2003 meeting notes
- Review status of Action Items from May meeting:
- Set next meeting dates
- Fall meeting, 9-10 October in Boulder
- Winter meeting
- Review of action items:
Action Item 1: In appointing new members, the Policy Committee (with
input from UPC staff) will identify a database expert to fill an existing
vacancy.
Action Item 2: In conjunction with the Users Committee, the Policy
Committee will identify an Expanding Horizons Workshop participant
to lead discussion during the workshop on a Unidata Program evaluation metric:
i.e., to identify a process whereby an unbiased evaluation process can be
identified. (AGENDA ITEM)
Action Item 3: Rich Clark and Mohan will craft a response to Tony
Hansen to clarify how Unidata will assist in creating a process for facilitating
the web-based forecasting exercise he requested.
Action Item 4: The Policy Committee requests that the Users Committee
review and make recommendations to the Policy Committee on how to accommodate
requests such as the above
Action Item 5: The Program Center should maintain awareness and
monitor the pay-per-byte policy under consideration at some member sites
and should consider proposing a pre-emptive solution.
8:45 Status Reports
Director's Report (Ramamurthy)
Budget Report (Graham)
Users Committee (??)
10:30 Agency Reports (MOVE TO Friday)
NSF (Jacobs, Grant)
NCDC (Watkins)
NWS (Helms)
NASA (Maiden)
OTHERS:
CRAFT Level Two (Information, Discussion) White
paper in notebook
The evaluation metric recommended by the funding
proposal review panel
National Digital Data discussion
Expanding Horizons and implicatins for the future
Report on Climate Data conference
Staff retreat and outcomes
LEAD Project Report
Progress on proposals (other than five-year)
- NetCDF HDF5
- THREDDS
- DLESE Data services
Realtime data delivery to South America
Equipment Awards: analysis, adjustments
