Discovery Telecon 2012-12-11

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• Tuesday, December 11. 4:00pm ET / 1:00pm PT

Attendees

• Chris Lynnes
• Hook Hua
• Ruth Duerr
• Christine White
• Eric Rozell
• Nga Chung
• Thomas Huang
• Erin Robinson
• Kathleen "Katie" Baynes
• Aleksandar Jelenak

Action Items

• Everyone: think of different slices that would be useful subgroups to focus on for grand challenges.
• Hook: send out email at end of week to solicit contributions to implementation lists

Previous Action Items

• Christine to investigate adding nsidc.org opensearch endpoint to discovery geoportal and document the how-to; would be nice for the ESIP Winter Meeting session

Agenda

1. Winter Meeting Planning
2. Feature Set Tracking for Discovery Implementations

Notes

Winter Meeting Planning

• Discovery Grand Challenges
  • Should this be intermediate or beginner?
    • Level doesn't usually deter people
  • Is the cluster ready for another big scale grand challenge? What about a smaller challenges?
  • Grand challenges could be borrowed from EarthCube or ESC challenges.
  • Should be very general, avoid groupthink / things we already know…
  • Need to pay attention to room layout, for something collaborative, avoid the audience type setting.
  • What's the attendance level? Comparable or smaller at the winter meeting.
  • How is this going to be run?
    • e.g., Charette - split up groups, then exchange ideas between groups…
    • 5 - min intro…
    • Slips of paper / titanpad, give 10 minutes of quiet time to come up with ideas, then discuss ideas in group. With too many people this would not work
    • EarthCube charettes had good prep work (wiki pages ready for contributions)
    • Should the documents have topics of discussion?
      • "Grand challenge from the point of view of a … (e.g., end-user, data system, etc.)"
      • Use perspectives rather than topics…
    • Charette is two-phases… could do phase one at the meeting then do phase two at a telecon…
    • May lose momentum if you wait for the next telecon for phase 2…
    • 15 minutes for context setting, 45 minutes for brainstorming, 30 minutes for grouping
    • Draw connections between all ideas rather than cluster the ideas (think, "network diagram" instead of "clusters").
    • Use Google docs to share, or wiki pages
    • Someone familiar with Discovery related technologies should scribe
    • Usually more people at the sessions than call-ins for monthly telecoms
    • Ask for volunteers when they are there
    • How should the groups form?
      • Counting off…
  • What is the end goal? A set of use cases? Anything actionable?
    • Something that looks like a precursor to a use case
    • Use these for something more in depth like a summer hack-a-thon
  • Theme of the meeting is around climate assessment, may lead to more end-users
  • Action: think of different slices that would be useful subdivisions to focus on for grand challenges.

• Planning Session
  • Develop a task lisk
  • Figure out what to do next with the Brainstorming results
  • May get more people attending grand challenge session b/c only competing session is business meeting (which, historically, has higher attendance)
  • Need to develop an approach to following up on ideas
  • THings to volunteer for:
    • Follow up on charette
    • RFC
    • DCPs
    • Feature set tracking
    • What next with GeoPortal
      • How to configure the GeoPortal is in a separate section
    • Validation, which is important for the coming RFC
• Should the planning session come before the grand challenges session?
  • Brainstorming will happen during planning
  • Get rid of details in planning session, more broader concepts in the brainstorming session

Feature Set Tracking for Discovery Implementations

• RFC Document
• Implementation Spreadsheet
• One of the reqs of a W3C spec is at least two implementations
• Create spreadsheets where rows represent implementations and columns rep. features (and the degree to which features are supported for given imp.)
• Hook converted RFC sections to columns in the spreadsheet
• With volunteered info in spreadsheet, can get an idea which features are most important (and what should remain in spec.)
• Spreadsheet only has coverage for services
• Need to create a tab for clients
• The spreadsheet replace the wiki page
• Useful for implementers as well as users
• Will need to fix the wiki from this spreadsheet
• What's the content of the columns? Yes, No, Maybe
• Recursive endpoints can be covered in a single implementation row
• Get volunteer to update client worksheet / implementation list
• Get a few samples on the implementation spreadsheets, then send out to the community as stand-alone thread
• Leave extensions out for now…