Draft Excom Minutes
ESIP Federation Executive Committee, April 11, 2013
Participants: Carol Meyer, Erin Robinson, John Scialdone, Emily Law, Brian Wee, Karl Benedict, Stefan Falke, Chuck Hutchinson, Tamara Ledley
Meeting called to order at 2:10 by Karl Benedict
1. Welcome and Introductions 2. Approval of February minutes
- Chuck Hutchinson made a motion to adopt the minutes as drafted. The motion was seconded by Emily Law. Without discussion, the minutes were approved by acclamation.
- Chuck Hutchinson made a motion to adopt the minutes as drafted. The motion was seconded by Emily Law. Without discussion, the minutes were approved by acclamation.
3. Commons Governance Working Group Report (Governance Document)
- The Commons Governance Steering committee established draft guidance. One outcome was to formalize the differentiation of the Commons from other ESIP web assets. The Wiki remains as a collaboration space and esipfed.org is front-forward facing website. The Commons is for final products.
- Core principles: (1) Light weight, so that content areas are managed by experts (2) Least restrictive licensing (3) Persistence to access for resources
- Steering Committee made up of .... ; Steering committee more like a working group - how does it fit best?
- Content area editors - identify experts ensure style
- Content contributors
- Admin - Operational/Maintenance
- Users - viewers of content
- Group modified the steering committee to include a member of C&B
- Two license - contributed content micro article/meeting sessions/modules - default is cc-by ; option for public domain - don't have authority to assert copyright.
- Style guide will be developed with content editors. Will also work through workflows for specific content.
- Motion to adopt as modified - Tamara/ John; No discussion. Without discussion, governace doc was approved by acclamation
- The Commons Governance Steering committee established draft guidance. One outcome was to formalize the differentiation of the Commons from other ESIP web assets. The Wiki remains as a collaboration space and esipfed.org is front-forward facing website. The Commons is for final products.
4. Summer Planning & Travel Impacts (Planning Page) - Talked to both NASA and NOAA program managers. We are on the conferencing radars. NOAA numbers will likely be down. The call for sessions went out - we have 12 so far. We have plenary programs in the works. Excom discussed ability to travel. 5. Revisiting Award Review Criteria - item postponed because Annette was absent to lead. 6. Committee Reports
- Partnership - 7 new partners; Setting up a time to meet and review the applications.
7. Other Business
- No other business was offered. The meeting adjourned at 1:43.
