20-21 May 2002 Unidata Program Center
Conference Room Boulder, Colorado
Monday, 20 May 2002
8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:30 Administrative Matters (Merrill)
Adopt agenda
Approve summary of February 2002 meeting
Review status of action items from last meeting:
1.A presentation by Unidata and DLESE policy committee representatives
to the National Science
Foundation detailing plans for coordinating their respective efforts to
support their communities. Margaret Leinen, Mike Mayhew, Cliff Jacobs,
Bernard Grant and others to be the target audience.
.Reflecting concern that only 28% of the Users Committee survey respondents
knew of the MetApps effort at the UPC, an article for the current BAMS
series should be submitted.
Martha Maiden (NASA rep) working together with Ben Domenico will initiate
discussions on how we can more effectively represent our two communities
A discussion of the WRF model's transition to operational mode will
be an agenda item at the
mid-March Users Committee meeting.
The Program Center will have a working draft of the 2008 proposal for
the next Policy Committee
meeting.
Set next meeting dates. Next meeting scheduled for:
14-15 October 2002, Arlington, Virginia
Set winter 2003 meeting date (10-11 February 2003?)
Status of Unidata Director Search (Fellows)
9:00 Director's Report
Director's Report (Domenico)
UPC Budget Report (Graham)
10:00 Break
10:15 Committee Reports
Users Committee (Clark)
MetApps (Murphy)
T3F, THREDDS Technical Task Force (Edmon)
11:15 Agency Reports
NSF (Jacobs)
NCDC (Leduc)
12:00 Lunch
1:00 5-year Funding Proposal
Issues to discuss:
Is the overall structure right?
Discussion of Main Components
Do we need additional sections from the Strategic Plan
Users Survey and its relevance to the proposal (Clark)
Value/importance of a UCAR-wide commitment to coordination in key strategic
areas (see the coordination matrix)
Relationship to other proposals
LEAD
KEG
DLESE data access
Unidata Equipment Awards
THREDDS and possible follow on
3:00 Break
3:15 5-year Funding Proposal (continued)
Getting input from the general community
How to go about it?
How to document it?
4:00 UCAR/NCAR Coordinated Planning
How it relates to the proposal
Unidata is not alone in these endeavors
5:00 Break
6:30 Working Dinner
Tuesday, 21 May 2002
8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:30 Digital Library Collaborations
DLESE (Marlino)
NSDL (Fulker)
Issues:
Relationship among NSDL, DLESE, THREDDS/Unidata?
Can we devise a coordinated strategy that all can endorse?
Should we?
10:00 Break
10:15 Followup Discussion on the Proposal
11:15 Discussion of UCAR/NCAR Involvement
Issues:
What's the most productive mechanism for obtaining UCAR/NCAR participation?
How about rotating attendances from UCAR?NCAR reps with specific, high-priority
strategic coordination areas (see the coordination matrix) up for discussion?
Which coordination area/group (or groups) should we target for the next
meeting?
