Summer 2010 Meeting
From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
Visioneers Telecon January 22, 2010
Notes
Participants: Jim Frew, Bruce Caron, Thomas Huang, Mohan Ramamurthy, Tyler Stevens, Karl Benedict, Ana Prados, Chris Lenhardt, Brian Rogan, Carol Meyer
Bruce Caron welcomed the participants and noted the purpose of the Visioneers Group was to allow for open input into the ESIP Federation meeting and to continuously improve them.
1. Winter Meeting Debrief
Survey Results:
- "positive dilemma" of too little space to accommodate our audience (new venue needed); larger area for poster session; breakout rooms need to be larger
- content of sessions were rated as Excellent to Good
- liked food, service, staff
- attendees got things done at the meeting through networking and project follow up opportunities
- attendees really liked the speakers
- Frew: accommodated the surge of people well; noticed that the breakout doors closed rather than allowing people to circulate in between sessions; far too many breakouts were organized as symposia rather than interactive ('lightning talks')
- Bruce Caron: 'Ignite' or "Charette" (sp?) technology to reduce the time that presentations occupy in the agenda; do a session on Ignite technology at the summer meeting
- Karl Benedict: presentation-demo session was light on the demos and too heavy on the presentations in one breakout track
- Ana Prados: morning wrap up was too unstructured
