Discovery Telecon 2012-06-19

Tuesday, June 19, 2012. 4:00pm ET / 1:00pm PT
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Attendees

Chris Lynnes - Start a page of URLs and resources for the hack-a-thon
Chris Lynnes - Set up coordination page for mentors
Chris Lynnes - Work with Hook to get list of packages needed for the testbed VM
Chris Lynnes - Send out "marketing" message to esip-all
Hook Hua - What are you going to mentor!?
Eric Rozell - Set up the VM on the ESIP shared account for people to use during the hack-a-thon
Anyone - Pick a technology/language to mentor (or backup mentor) at the hack-a-thon!
Everyone - Review DCP-7 so you're informed when it goes up for vote!

Resources:
- http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Metadata_Casting_for_Data,_Services,_%26_Events/Topics
- http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Discovery_Hack-a-thon
Topics
- Testbed configured for Hack-a-Thon
- Mentors for Hack-a-Thon
  - 3 or 4 slides
  - Show some code of how to interact with Discovery-related technologies

Sameer from Microsoft discussed "user intent modeling" at the charette
Is there something to the concept of "user intent"?
Users have to know about the Earth Science data search engine before they can use (must be found from Google/Bing)

http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/DCP-5
This is going to be further revised using the OpenSearch parameters extension
Updates coming soon!
Side Topic:
- We need to start considering sustainability of this cluster
- We also need to start being more aggressive about deciding and implementing the DCPs
- Some may be concerned without how much influence they should have on DCP decisions
- Best Practice: Not opposed should equal a yes! (Though, if you can't understand a proposal or why its needed, then it may not be good!)