P&S Telecon - March 18, 2014
From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
Attendees
- Erin Robinson
- Adam Shepherd
- Hook Hua
- Nancy Hoebelheinrich
- Christine White
Actions
- TBD: TBD
Agenda
Update on Testbed RFP announcement
- Have you heard of anyone planning to respond?
- Adam and his student at RPI
- Semantic Web Cluster ToolMatch project
- Looking at how Testbed resources can help their project: hosting a webpage, server instance
- Nancy looking to make a plan within the next two weeks
- May collaborate with the Energy Cluster
- Want something to demo ToolMatch service and project at Summer Meeting
- Buzz - Erin wrote a blog post, and has been announced in ESIP Weekly; how to generate more buzz?
- Christine can post on ESIP FB page (image) - maybe an event - deadline
- Point to prior projects
- Erin & Peter will be at meetings next week - can plug at those meetings
- RDA, EOSDIS WG, etc.
- Christine can post on ESIP FB page (image) - maybe an event - deadline
- Nice ppt slide with awesome image: Ken's cute robot
Testbed (Other)
- Education Committee
- Possible collaboration with these federal agencies
- Connections with NOAA & NASA
- Ideas for lesson plans with earth science data competition
- Testbed could host some of their competition resources - webpages…
- Testbed could fund some things like surveys, survey staff, public relations
- They're meeting tomorrow - 2:30 Eastern
- Roberta is chair, Erin will mention to her when they go on break today
- Documentation has talked about doing a hackathon at summer meeting - metadata work; could be a project (Christine to attend next cluster meeting, Thurs?)
- ESIP Data Analytics group - they are meeting Thurs (Nancy to attend?)
- Data Stewardship (Ruth leads - Christine send her or Sarah Ramdeen a note to remind about the RFP)
- Think about where NASA & NOAA fit into Testbed activities, since history of Testbed idea came from NASA being interested in an environment to try out ideas before they are operational
- How to educate/clarify the resources available - funding is too little to push through their organizational processes ("too low, won't bother")
- Do it as an individual contractor - represent yourself, and take it as contracting income in tax
- QA topic: how to handle low funding thresholds and your institutional practices
- Testbed Portal may be able to do this kind of threaded forum - Erin to investigate
- How to educate/clarify the resources available - funding is too little to push through their organizational processes ("too low, won't bother")
Summer Meeting Planning - Session Deadline is April 13
Testbed Session
- Targeted participation in other sessions to talk about the Testbed
- Session for Q&A on Testbed, projects, proposals - YES
Funding Friday
Preparation
- Flier that goes in the meeting packet to talk about the session
- PreMeeting about ways to get involved in ESIP
- P&S will run the sessions at the Summer Meeting
Session: Dedicated facilitated brainstorm to support Funding Friday projects,Thursday night
- Afterhours session - 7:30-ish, happy-hour-ish
- Activities:
- Look for collaborators
- Work on their posters
- Some kind of match-making
Friday Morning Session
- Because all the prep is done on Thursday, folks can start perusing posters during b breakfast
- Still to do:
- Figure out how to structure the decision-making activity
- Decision criteria: what is, how to advertise
- Who can help? New people who can get involved too?
Next Meeting
Tuesday April 15th, 2014
Adjourn
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