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ESIP Federation Executive Committee, May 10, 2012
No quorum was established for this meeting. These are notes (not minutes) from the discussions.
Attendees: John Scialdone, Ken Keiser, Stefan Falke, Annette Schloss, Karl Benedict, Shailendra Kumar, Carol Meyer, Erin Robinson
- Approval of April minutes - minutes could not be approved because a quorum could not be established.
- Summer Meeting Update -
- Over 50 people are registered.
- Including 4-5 virtual participants.
- A reminder was given to make hotel reservations and go ahead and register for the meeting to help us establish a head count.
- A draft schedule was posted several weeks ago and a note to add space for C&B on the agenda was made.
- ESIP Commons Governance Working Group proposal (commons.esipfed.org)
- Need a light touch governance model to oversee the content being added to the governance group.
- Two types of members - editorial workgroup and board for high level oversight.
- Group also discussed distinction between wiki - dynamic content generation and commons - outcomes (may still be living documents).
- If there is interest from others in the group please let Erin know.
- Recommendation from Excom group was to form a Working Group.
- An electronic vote will be facilitated with the full Executive Committee before the June telecon
- Energy & Climate Cluster Working Group proposal (Draft White Paper) - Shailendra Kumar
- Energy Cluster had first session at January 2010 meeting and became a cluster in July 2010.
- The group has been working on a dynamic decision tool catalog. The group has been collaboratively writing a white paper that will be used to solicit funding. There has been significant cross-agency interest and input into the white paper. The group is leveraging ESIP collaboration group expertise such as drupal and semantic web.
- The cluster made the formal request to become a Work Group, in part to allow it to request seed funding for the decision support tool's development
- The members on the were supportive of this request.
- An electronic vote will be facilitated with the full Executive Committee before the June telecon
- Other Business
- Committee Reports
- C&B - Chris is meeting with Carol to discuss how to move forward w/C&B
- P&S - Ken will push to get state of art docs from each of the testbed projects.
- Committee Reports