Program Committee

Executive Committee of the ESIP Federation

Members

• Emily Law, President
• Christine White, Vice President
• Bill Teng, Chair, Finance
• Danie Kinkade, Chair, Partnership
• Ken Keiser, Chair, C&B
• Bob Arko, Type I Rep
• Sky Bristol, Type II Rep
• Ted Habermann, Type III Rep
• Justin Goldstein, Chair, Data Stewardship
• LuAnn Dahlman, Chair, Education
• Ethan Davis, Chair, IT & I
• Denise Hills, Chair, Nominations
• Soren Scott, Chair, Products and Services
• Tom Narock, Chair, Semantic Technologies

Activities

Telecons

2nd Tuesday of the month at 3 pm Eastern

Next Telecon, February 9, 3 pm EDT

Webinar Information

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Agenda

1. Approval of April Minutes
2. President's Report
   • 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).
     • Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act: The Center for Data Innovation 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
   • 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.
3. Staff Report
   • Highlights
   • Actions:
4. Committee Reports
   • C&B
   • Finance
   • 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 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
   • Semantic Technology
5. Type Rep Reports
   • Type I
   • Type II Characterizing ESIP Member Contributions
   • Type III
6. Other Business
   • Any other business?

Tabled

Telecon Minutes

Draft Excom Minutes
Approved Excom Minutes

2016 Work Plan

• ExCom Work plan

Past ExCom Workspaces

To see prior year work plans and links

• ExCom Home 2015