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October Excom Call - 2014-10-14, 3 ET

Participants

Bruce Caron, Ruth Duerr, Peter Fox, Sara Graves, Roberta Johnson, Tyler Stevens, Bill Teng, Christine White, Chuck Hutchinson, Erin Robinson

Minutes

Approval of September MInutes
Christine White motioned to accept the minutes as presented and Ruth Duerr seconded the motion. The minutes for August were approved by acclamation.
President's Report
- World Data System Update - Peter reported that ESIP is officially an associate member of WDS. Anne Wilson will be representing ESIP at the WDS/CODATA meeting, SciDataCon in November.
- GEO Update - ESIP leadership & FES staff had a call with Jeff DLB and Yana Gevorgyan to discuss deepening the relationship between ESIP and GEO, US GEO and NOAA. Jeff had seven concrete suggestions. GEO will also have a presence at the Winter and future ESIP Meetings.
  1. Good to formalize role for ESIP in GEO and US GEO at a fine scale, wherever we can "ESIP will do .... " He thought plenary and breakout sessions were good, but relied on the right people to be in the room.
  2. GEO is fairly high level to ESIP. ESIP is cutting edge technology/real data users and GEO has to worry about being accessible to developing countries and not asking them to do something too complicated - poses a challenge
  3. He likes the idea of ESIP as a user community on top of stuff that GEO/GEOSS does. He wondered how we'd entice our community since many aren't going to go through the Discovery/Access Broker (DAB).

Evolution of functionality available in DAB - not sure if this is open source or proprietary. Run other instances of the DAB and turn toward community development

- 1. US GEO side easier for Jeff to see connections. Make sure that stuff goes from US to GEO and ESIP people could help do this 'the right way', eliminating manual registration.
  2. US GEO chartered to coordinate BEDI. Starting to talk about what to do with BEDI money - abstract more discoverable, accessible useable with metadata and data formats. In practice what does that mean? ESIP providing guidance on right choices, using/testing implementations that feds set up.
  3. NOAA Big Data RFI - ESIP could add value by working on apps, analysis, customer specific things in the cloud environment *As part of the Industry Day announcement, NOAA did release a Statement of Objectives (attached) as second RFI.
- Update on Foundation Executive Director Search - A lot of progress has been made. A subset of the search committee conducted interviews over the last week. The FES board will meet Oct 15 to discuss next steps.
Staff Report - Erin Robinson
- Winter Meeting Tentative Agenda
Committee Reports
- Strategic Plan
- C&B
- Data Stewardship
- Education
- Finance
- Partnership
  - 8 new members
- Products and Services
  - Testbed Call For Proposals
- IT & I
- Type Rep Reports
  - Type Rep Definition
Other Business
- Nomination Committee

The meeting adjourned at 3:54 ET.

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 __TOC__
-# Approval of [[Draft Excom Minutes| September MInutes]]
+== October Excom Call - 2014-10-14, 3 ET ==
+===Participants ===
+Bruce Caron, Ruth Duerr, Peter Fox, Sara Graves, Roberta Johnson, Tyler Stevens, Bill Teng, Christine White, Chuck Hutchinson, Erin Robinson
+=== Minutes ===
+# Approval of [[Draft Excom Minutes| September MInutes]]
+#: Christine White motioned to accept the minutes as presented and Ruth Duerr seconded the motion. The minutes for August were approved by acclamation.
 # President's Report
-#* World Data System Update
+#* World Data System Update - Peter reported that ESIP is officially an associate member of WDS. Anne Wilson will be representing ESIP at the WDS/CODATA meeting, SciDataCon in November.
-#* GEO Call Update
+#* GEO Update - ESIP leadership & FES staff had a call with Jeff DLB and Yana Gevorgyan to discuss deepening the relationship between ESIP and GEO, US GEO and NOAA. Jeff had seven concrete suggestions. GEO will also have a presence at the Winter and future ESIP Meetings.
-#* Update on Foundation Executive Director Search
+#*# Good to formalize role for ESIP in GEO and US GEO at a fine scale, wherever we can "ESIP will do .... " He thought plenary and breakout sessions were good, but relied on the right people to be in the room.
+#*# GEO is fairly high level to ESIP. ESIP is cutting edge technology/real data users and GEO has to worry about being accessible to developing countries and not asking them to do something too complicated - poses a challenge
+#*# He likes the idea of ESIP as a user community on top of stuff that GEO/GEOSS does. He wondered how we'd entice our community since many aren't going to go through the Discovery/Access Broker (DAB).
+Evolution of functionality available in DAB - not sure if this is open source or proprietary. Run other instances of the DAB and turn toward community development
+#*# US GEO side easier for Jeff to see connections. Make sure that stuff goes from US to GEO and ESIP people could help do this 'the right way', eliminating manual registration.
+#*# US GEO chartered to coordinate BEDI. Starting to talk about what to do with BEDI money - abstract more discoverable, accessible useable with metadata and data formats. In practice what does that mean? ESIP providing guidance on right choices, using/testing implementations that feds set up.
+#*# NOAA Big Data RFI - ESIP could add value by working on apps, analysis, customer specific things in the cloud environment  *As part of the Industry Day announcement, NOAA did release a Statement of Objectives (attached) as second RFI.
+#* Update on Foundation Executive Director Search - A lot of progress has been made. A subset of the search committee conducted interviews over the last week. The FES board will meet Oct 15 to discuss next steps.
 # Staff Report - Erin Robinson
 #* [http://commons.esipfed.org/taxonomy/term/1482 Winter Meeting Tentative Agenda]
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 # Other Business
 #* Nomination Committee
-== September Excom Call - 2014-09-09, 3 ET ==
-===Participants ===
-Bruce Caron, Ruth Duerr, Peter Fox, Sara Graves, Roberta Johnson, Emily Law, Bill Teng, Curt Tilmes, Christine White, Chuck Hutchinson, Erin Robinson
-=== Minutes ===
-# Approval of [[Draft Excom Minutes| August Minutes]]
-#: Emily Law motioned to accept the minutes as presented and Sara Graves seconded the motion. The minutes for August were approved by acclamation.
-# President's Report - Peter Fox
-#: ESIP has begun the process of becoming an associate member of WDS by returning an Expression of Interest. This is the loosest type of membership.
-#: Peter reported that he'd started conversations with Kathy Fontaine, Managing Director for RDA-US, on ESIP-RDA-US and ESIP-GEO/US GEO
-#: The Foundation Executive Director search is underway. There were 47 applicants. The Search Committee will begin screening and interviews in the next few weeks
-# Staff Report - Erin Robinson
-#* Call for Winter Meeting Breakout sessions - Erin reminded the group of the Oct. 10 deadline for breakout session submissions. These do not need to be final, but will help hold space and flesh out the agenda.
-#* Reminder of Student Opportunities - Raskin Scholarship and ESIP Student Fellows - Erin also reminded the group of the two student opportunities and that applications for both are  due in early October.
-# Committee Reports
-#* Strategic Plan - Emily Law reported that there was a good response to the doodle poll for a telecon about the strategic plan and that the call will be
-#* C&B - Bruce Caron reported there was no new work from C&B this month.
-#* Data Stewardship - Ruth Duerr reported that the Data Stewardship committee will meet this Friday.
-#* Education - Roberta Johnson reported that the Education committee is working with ESIP members to identify candidate materials for the NSTA workshops. There will be three regional workshops this fall in Richmond, Orlando and Long Beach.
-#* Finance - Bill Teng reported that groups should be working on budgets and they will be reviewed in October.
-#* Partnership - Erin reported that ESIP has received several additional applications, bringing the count to 7 new members to be considered for the Fall class of ESIP members.
-#* Products and Services - Christine White reported that the Testbed solicitation was coming together and proposals for new testbeds will be due Oct. 30. She also informed ExCom about a connection forming between P&S and Microsoft Research. Microsoft Research is interested in making Azure cloud services available for free to some testbed projects and will participate in the Testbed Configuration Board to review projects.
-#* IT & I - Erin reported that the IT&I Committee had Annette Schloss give the September Rant/Rave on Citizen Science and data management.
-#* Type Rep Reports - No type reports.
-# Other Business - No other business
 The meeting adjourned at 3:54 ET.