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'''ESIP Federation Executive Committee, March 8, 2012'''
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'''ESIP Federation Executive Committee, April 12, 2012'''
  
Attendees: Karl Benedict, Curt TIlmes, John Scialdone, Stephen Berrick,  Ken Keiser, Stefan Falke, Annette Schloss, Carol Meyer, Erin Robinson<br>
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Attendees: Curt TIlmes, John Scialdone, Stephen Berrick,  Ken Keiser, Stefan Falke, Annette Schloss, Becky Reid, Patricia Huff, Brian Wilson, Sayeed Choudry Carol Meyer, Erin Robinson<br>
  
The meeting was called to order by President Karl Benedict at 2:04 pm EDT.<br>
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The meeting was called to order by Vice President Annette Schloss at 2:08 pm EDT.<br>
# Moment of Silence for Rob Raskin  
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# Approval of [[ExCom Feb 2012| February minutes]] - A motion to adopt was made by John Scialdone, with Ken Keiser offering a second. The minutes were approved by acclamation.
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# Approval of [[ExCom March 2012| March minutes]] - A motion to adopt was made by Steve Berrick, with John Scialdone offering a second. The minutes were approved by acclamation.
# Summer Meeting Planning
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# Summer Meeting Update - Carol updated ExCom that we have 28 sessions submitted for breakouts and workshops. Registration is off to a slow start, but that is normal with patterns we have seen in previous years.
#* Theme - The theme will focus on "ESIP Community Leadership: Innovating Throughout the Data Life Cycle"
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#* The plenary sessions are coming together:  
#* Overall Logistics - Meeting planning is going well. Meeting breakout and workshop call for sessions went out March 7. We will have a robust virtual participation mechanisms available. The hotels are all within walking distance. 
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#** The first 1.5 hour speakers are awaiting confirmation, but will be two solo presenters and then a panel highlighting NASA and NOAA innovation
# Report from DC Visits - Carol and Karl visited NOAA TPIO and NASA HQ in mid-February.  
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#** The second 1.5 hour will highlight the "Innovators among us" - ESIP members will present in 5 or 9 minute presentations about their work or ESIP collaboration area work. [https://docs.google.com/a/esipfed.org/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGJNeWVFc2lKVmFhb0gtNktXZTcwaXc6MQ#gid=0 Submit your ideas by May 15] for a talk.  
#* At NOAA met w/ Jeff DLB, Matt Austin and Lewis McCulloch
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#** Lea Shanley, Director of Commons Lab at Woodrow Wilson Center, will provide a lunchtime talk on the connection between technology and policy.
#** NOAA is interested in moving forward the Data Management Plans and the data management requirements for groups working with NOAA resources
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# C&B Chair Vacancy - A call went out to the current members of C&B to see if there was interest in stepping in as chair. No one on the committee is able at this time to step in as chair. Chris Lenhardt, former ESIP president, is interested in the position. He worked with Rob closely on the latest round of changes and is familiar with the work that is left to do. Both C&B and ExCom felt Chris was a good replacement. ExCom voted and by acclimation Chris Lenhardt was accepted as president.
#** Carol and Erin will be working on a proposal to NOAA w/ submission targeted for April 1.  
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# Raskin Memorial - Rob's sister approached the Federation on behalf of Rob's family, to start a memorial for Rob within ESIP. A small workgroup of colleagues and collaborators was put together, it is open and if you are interested, let Carol know. The ideas being discussed are posted on a wiki page for the [[Raskin Scholarship]].  
#* At NASA met with Steve Berrick and Lawrence Friedl
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# Other Business <br>
#** Discussed the NASA ROSES 2012 Solicitation. New topics of potential interest surround improving customer service standards and crowdsourcing science.  
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#*Student Fellow Update - Erin reported that there were 40 applications submitted and the Foundation hopes to grow the fellowship to 10 Fellows. The applications are going through the review process now and by ExCom next month we should have a new class of fellows.  
#** Carol and Erin will also target an April 1 submission to renew NASA funding.
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#* Foundation/ESIP Funding Update - The Foundation submitted proposals to both NASA and NOAA on behalf of the Federation in the last two weeks.  
# Committee Updates
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#* Committee Reports <br>
#* The Products and Services Discovery Testbed project attempted to fill out the State of Art template. Some suggestions were made to modify the template. Those have been incorporated. Will work to have an online template in the next few weeks.  
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#** P&S - Ken reported that the State of Art template will be filled out by all of the testbed projects. P&S is also establishing IT infrastructure to support the projects via the cloud and GitHub as a source code repository. Christine White will have the Discovery testbed deployed on the Amazon Cloud by the next P&S meeting.  
#* John Scialdone reported that partnership has four new partner applications and has been working on implementing an online membership form.  
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#** Education - Becky reported that Education would also work to fill out a state of art template. Margaret Mooney represented the ESIP Edu Committee at NESTA and had a lot of interest in the Teacher Workshop.  
# Other Business
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#** Stewardship - Curt reported that their group would also work on a state of art template. Also in collaboration with Peter Fox, he is working on the Global Climate Information System and looking to tie that back to the ESIP Stewardship Committee.  
#* Honoring ESIP Partners Posthumously - The group discussed how to honor ESIP members who have passed away with a mechanism that is sustainable. Several ideas were suggested around presenting an ESIP award to the family of the deceased or having a one year special named award. The other suggestion was to have a place on the website where a memorial page could be posted publicly, maybe the ESIP Commons that would collect the facebook, list-serv and other comments scattered around into a single place. No decisions were made.
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#** IT&I - Erin reported that the IT&I Committee has laid out the next several months of Rants and Raves - CF Rant, Ted Habermann, May; Cloud Computing, Rick Martin, June; US GIN/ISO 19115 Updates, Steve Richard, September; Others welcome.  
#* Student Fellow Update - We have put out the call for ESIP Student Fellows for 2012-2013 and received 4 applications so far. For more details see the [http://esipfed.org/page-12 ESIP site] and please pass to any students that you may know.  
 
  
Motion to adjourn made by Ken Keiser and seconded by Stefan Falke.  
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Motion to adjourn made by Ken Keiser and seconded by Steve Berrick.  
The meeting adjourned at 3:05 EDT.  
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The meeting adjourned at 2:46 EDT.  
 
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Revision as of 09:22, April 16, 2012

ESIP Federation Executive Committee, April 12, 2012

Attendees: Curt TIlmes, John Scialdone, Stephen Berrick, Ken Keiser, Stefan Falke, Annette Schloss, Becky Reid, Patricia Huff, Brian Wilson, Sayeed Choudry Carol Meyer, Erin Robinson

The meeting was called to order by Vice President Annette Schloss at 2:08 pm EDT.

  1. Approval of March minutes - A motion to adopt was made by Steve Berrick, with John Scialdone offering a second. The minutes were approved by acclamation.
  2. Summer Meeting Update - Carol updated ExCom that we have 28 sessions submitted for breakouts and workshops. Registration is off to a slow start, but that is normal with patterns we have seen in previous years.
    • The plenary sessions are coming together:
      • The first 1.5 hour speakers are awaiting confirmation, but will be two solo presenters and then a panel highlighting NASA and NOAA innovation
      • The second 1.5 hour will highlight the "Innovators among us" - ESIP members will present in 5 or 9 minute presentations about their work or ESIP collaboration area work. Submit your ideas by May 15 for a talk.
      • Lea Shanley, Director of Commons Lab at Woodrow Wilson Center, will provide a lunchtime talk on the connection between technology and policy.
  3. C&B Chair Vacancy - A call went out to the current members of C&B to see if there was interest in stepping in as chair. No one on the committee is able at this time to step in as chair. Chris Lenhardt, former ESIP president, is interested in the position. He worked with Rob closely on the latest round of changes and is familiar with the work that is left to do. Both C&B and ExCom felt Chris was a good replacement. ExCom voted and by acclimation Chris Lenhardt was accepted as president.
  4. Raskin Memorial - Rob's sister approached the Federation on behalf of Rob's family, to start a memorial for Rob within ESIP. A small workgroup of colleagues and collaborators was put together, it is open and if you are interested, let Carol know. The ideas being discussed are posted on a wiki page for the Raskin Scholarship.
  5. Other Business
    • Student Fellow Update - Erin reported that there were 40 applications submitted and the Foundation hopes to grow the fellowship to 10 Fellows. The applications are going through the review process now and by ExCom next month we should have a new class of fellows.
    • Foundation/ESIP Funding Update - The Foundation submitted proposals to both NASA and NOAA on behalf of the Federation in the last two weeks.
    • Committee Reports
      • P&S - Ken reported that the State of Art template will be filled out by all of the testbed projects. P&S is also establishing IT infrastructure to support the projects via the cloud and GitHub as a source code repository. Christine White will have the Discovery testbed deployed on the Amazon Cloud by the next P&S meeting.
      • Education - Becky reported that Education would also work to fill out a state of art template. Margaret Mooney represented the ESIP Edu Committee at NESTA and had a lot of interest in the Teacher Workshop.
      • Stewardship - Curt reported that their group would also work on a state of art template. Also in collaboration with Peter Fox, he is working on the Global Climate Information System and looking to tie that back to the ESIP Stewardship Committee.
      • IT&I - Erin reported that the IT&I Committee has laid out the next several months of Rants and Raves - CF Rant, Ted Habermann, May; Cloud Computing, Rick Martin, June; US GIN/ISO 19115 Updates, Steve Richard, September; Others welcome.

Motion to adjourn made by Ken Keiser and seconded by Steve Berrick. The meeting adjourned at 2:46 EDT.