Difference between revisions of "Program Committee"

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ESIP Program Committee [formerly known as ExCom]

Members

Karl Benedict, President
Mike Daniels, Vice President
Rebecca Koskela, Chair, Finance
Nancy Hoebelheinrich, Chair, Partnership
Denise Hills, Chair, Governance
Ruth Duerr, Chair, Data Stewardship
Becky Reid, Chair, Education
Dave Blodgett, Chair, IT & I
Danie Kinkade, Chair, Nominations
Lewis McGibbney, Chair, Semantic Technologies

Activities

Telecons

2nd Tuesday of the month at 3 pm Eastern

2019 Telecons:

February 25
March 25
April 9
May 14
June 18
July - No call (Summer Meeting)
August 13
September 10
October 8
November 12
December - No call (AGU)

Webinar Information

Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone. tps://www.gotomeeting.com/join/411606165

You can also dial in using your phone.

United States: +1 (312) 757-3121

Access Code: 411-606-165

Agenda

Working notes are kept on a Google Doc

Please add the text of your committee report to that document by Friday before the Program Committee call.

Tabled

- “How to talk about ESIP” ideas and how to grow ESIP ambassadors
- How to document ESIP success stories - there is a technical and programmatic effort. As easy as tagging posts with #esipfed or some other hashtag, but then what do we do all the tagged content, where do we consolidate that, is that how we want to proceed with capturing success stories - let's think about this
  - NOAA has some existing framework resources on this, EarthCube is also using NOAA's work on this.

Telecon Minutes

Program Committee draft notes
Program Committee historical notes

2016 Work Plan

ExCom Work plan

Past ExCom Workspaces

To see prior year work plans and links

ExCom Home 2015

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-==Executive Committee of the ESIP Federation==
+==ESIP Program Committee [formerly known as ExCom]==
 ===Members===
-*Emily Law, President
+*Karl Benedict, President
-*Christine White, Vice President
+*Mike Daniels, Vice President
-*Bill Teng, Chair, Finance
+*Rebecca Koskela, Chair, Finance
-*Danie Kinkade, Chair, Partnership
+*Nancy Hoebelheinrich, Chair, Partnership
-*Ken Keiser, Chair, C&B
+*Denise Hills, Chair, Governance
-*Bob Arko, Type I Rep
+*Ruth Duerr, Chair, Data Stewardship
-*Sky Bristol, Type II Rep
+*Becky Reid, Chair, Education
-*Ted Habermann, Type III Rep
+*Dave Blodgett, Chair, IT & I
-*Justin Goldstein, Chair, Data Stewardship
+*Danie Kinkade, Chair, Nominations
-*LuAnn Dahlman, Chair, Education
+*Lewis McGibbney, Chair, Semantic Technologies
-*Ethan Davis, Chair, IT & I
-*Denise Hills, Chair, Nominations
-*Soren Scott, Chair, Products and Services
-* Tom Narock, Chair, Semantic Technologies
 ===Activities===
 ====Telecons====
 nd Tuesday of the month at 3 pm Eastern
-:Next Telecon,  February 9, 3 pm EDT
+Telecons:
+* February 25
+* March 25
+* April 9
+* May 14
+* June 18
+* July - No call (Summer Meeting)
+* August 13
+* September 10
+* October 8
+* November 12
+* December - No call (AGU)
 =====Webinar Information=====
 Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.
-https://www.gotomeeting.com/join/411606165
+tps://www.gotomeeting.com/join/411606165
 You can also dial in using your phone.
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 =====Agenda=====
-# Approval of  [[Draft Excom Minutes|April Minutes]]
-# President's Report
+Working notes are kept on a [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l13cD3d4bmUuDW1YmvcP7Zs7_7RXraMTiY7Hr4Q1Vpg/edit Google Doc]
-#*Highlight
-#**The Foundation for Earth Science:  FES board meeting was held on April 29, 2016. It covered ESIP report (sponsors visit, summer meeting, endorsement of “Open Data in Big Data World”, ESIP evaluation), Foundation/ESIP organization structure update, finance report and ESIP Director report (proposals, letter of collaboration, staff update and training, near term activities).
+Please add the text of your committee report to that document by Friday before the Program Committee call.
-#**Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act: The Center for Data Innovation (CDI) was seeking co-signers in their letter of support for this legislation to be introduced into the U.S. House and Senate. Upon reviewing the proposed legislation and summary, the FES board members unanimously voted in favor to support this bill. The proposal, summary and support letter can be found at: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B_2czh6FTo34OE1HTWE1OXlodk0. CDI published a [https://www.datainnovation.org/2016/05/center-for-data-innovation-and-47-other-organizations-urge-congressional-action-on-bipartisan-open-government-data-act/ press release] regarding the letter of support.
-#*FYI
-#**JPL new leadership: Michael M. Watkins, the Clare Cockrell Williams Centennial Chair in Aerospace Engineering and Director of the Center for Space Research at The University of Texas at Austin, and a former leader at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has been appointed to serve as Director of JPL and Vice President at Caltech effective July 1, 2016.
-# Staff Report
-#* Highlights
-#** Erin - Evaluation is going well. Interviews are in progress and survey questions need review. Survey will go out next week. Last quarter was a heavy fundraising/proposal writing quarter. We submitted two proposals for basic ESIP support + Testbed work, co-I on three NSF proposals that would utilize ESIP framework and wrote 9 letters of support. Confirmed two of three plenary speakers - Ben Preston, ORNL, Ellen Prager, Earth2Ocean and Jon Marino (To Be Confirmed).
-#** Annie B. - Working on membership database; Next round of evaluation testbed will kick-off in July; Summer Meeting draft schedule is posted.
-#** Rebecca - Developing a Communication Strategy; AGU Data Blog (looking for contributing authors); Led development of [http://www.esipfed.org/node/9170 2015 Annual Report] - feedback welcome.
-#** Dan - Migrated ESIP to GoToMeeting; Working on the ImHere Check-in System. This is ready for use on ESIP telecons to begin familiarizing with tool.
-#** Annie K. - Recovering well! Back to work on Summer Meeting logistics.
-#* Actions:
-#** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_tcNiSd3Gy0hahYF3tIXp_MiiSN5M8Fi7zcM0ET84Ek/edit Review Survey Q's] and add others interested in knowing about.
-#** Review [https://2016esipsummermeeting.sched.org/?iframe=no Summer Meeting Schedule]; Send comments to Annie B.
-#** Make Summer travel plans. Contact Annie K.
-#** Contribute to the [https://blogs.agu.org/geospace/category/data/ AGU Data Blog] - contact Rebecca
-#** Use the ImHere App on your next Telecon!
-# Committee Reports
-#* C&B
-#* Finance
-#::*Starting to draft process documents, based on our discussion notes over the past year, to be included in C&B's policies and procedures (P&P) wiki page.
-#::*Will hold an informal Ficom meeting at ESIP Summer.
-#::*Either together with this meeting or separately, will make Ficom available to any group planning to submit a budget for FY17.
-#::*For discussion: Excom (I think) has discussed the possibility of scheduling an informal session at ESIP Summer for those groups that got funding for FY16 to give a short report.
-#* Partnership
-#* Data Stewardship
-#* Education
-#::*Held our second of two webinars on using recreational drones for STEM on April 26. ~25 participants.
-#::*14 of our 15 workshop slots were snapped up within a day of the second Webinar. We'll cap registration at 20.
-#::*Our strategic plan was finalized and posted.
-#* IT&I
-#* Nominations
-#::*Added our suggestions/lessons learned to the [[List_of_Polices_and_Procedures | Policies and Procedures]] listing, and added a category tag of "PoliciesAndProcedures" (this tag can be changed, but I thought it was a good idea to start with something)
-#::*Waiting on discussion with ESIP President about establishing the next NomCom chair and committee
-#* Products & Services
-#::*Released the [http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/9169 Spring 2016 RFP].
-#::*Drafting ESIP Testbed and RFP [[List_of_Polices_and_Procedures | Policies and Procedures]]
-#::*Co-organizing an ESIP/EarthCube Software Assessment Workshop (June, Boulder, CO) and will provide report out from that activity as well as incorporate assessment feedback into the ESIP software evaluation guidelines as part of that ongoing activity.
-#* Semantic Technology
-#::*In the process of evaluating community needs for an ontology portal. Currently drafting an [http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Semantic_Web_Ontology_Portal_Evaluation_Approach Evaluation Plan].
-#::*Beginning the process of migrating semantic resources to the cloud
-#::*Mid-term goal is to better quantify what community really needs and what infrastructure is required to support this
-# Type Rep Reports
-#* Type I
-#* Type II
-#* Type III - Met May 5 for first Type 3 telecon. Small, but productive call. Organizing a type gathering at ESIP Summer and hope to have a more formal activity at the Winter Meeting.
-# Other Business
-#* GEO Program Committee Report - Kathy
-#* Member Map - Christine/Annie B
-#* Any other business?
 ==== Tabled ====
+#* “How to talk about ESIP” ideas and how to grow ESIP ambassadors
+#* How to document ESIP success stories - there is a technical and programmatic effort. As easy as tagging posts with #esipfed or some other hashtag, but then what do we do all the tagged content, where do we consolidate that, is that how we want to proceed with capturing success stories - let's think about this
+#** NOAA has some existing framework resources on this, EarthCube is also using NOAA's work on this.
 ===== Telecon Minutes=====
-[[Draft Excom Minutes]]<br>
+[[Draft Excom Minutes| Program Committee draft notes]]<br>
-[[Approved Excom Minutes]]<br>
+[[Approved Excom Minutes| Program Committee historical notes]]<br>
 ==== 2016 Work Plan ====