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September 2005 Policy Committee Agenda
Agenda
Unidata Policy Committee
22-23
September 2005
Arlington, Virginia
NSF Headquarters
Thursday, 22 September (Room 730)
8:00
Continental Breakfast
8:15
Administrative Matters (Wetzel)
New member/Representative introduction: Gene Takle, Iowa State University,
Roger Wakimoto, NCAR/EOL
Item 1: A discussion of interoperability issues will be on
the agenda at the fall meeting.
Item 2: The committee requests that a notice be sent to all
policy committee members when any new funding is acquired by the UPC.
Item 3: The UPC will prepare a detailed plan and schedule with
milestones and target dates for metrics and evaluation activities. This
will be provided to committee members by the fall meeting.
Item 4:The UPC will select an independent, outside consultant
to provide guidance in preparing a metric for the next funding proposal,
after which a working group comprising UPC staff, Policy and Users Committee
representatives will be appointed to provide input to the process.
8:45 Status Reports (Tabs 10-24)
Director's Report (Ramamurthy)
9:45 Committee Report
Users Committee Report (Steenburgh)
10:00 Break
10:15 Agency Reports
NSF (Grant, Jacobs)
NASA (Goodman)
NWS (Spayd)
11:15 International Activities and Development (Ramamurthy) (Tab 25)