ExCom April2013
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
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- The Commons Governance steering committee established draft guidance.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. The draft guidance included the following:
- Core principles: (1) Light weight, so that content areas are managed by experts (2) Least restrictive licensing (3) Persistence access to resources
- Steering Committee made up of ESIP Type Representatives, Content Area Editors and the ESiP Federation Vice President. Discussion noted that the Steering Committee was to be more like a working group (rather than a cluster).
- Content area editors - identify experts ensure style
- Content contributors
- Admin - Operational/Maintenance
- Users - viewers of content
- The Executive Committee modified the draft to replace the Vice President with the Chair of the Constitution and Bylaws Committee.
- Two license - contributed content micro article/meeting sessions/modules - default is cc-by ; option for public domain - does not have authority to assert copyright.
- A motion to adopt the draft as modified was put forward by Tamara Ledley and seconded by John Scialdone. There was no additional discussion. The modified document was approved by acclamation.
- Actions:
- The Constitution and Bylaws Committee was asked to see how the steering committee fits within the ESIP governance Structure.
- A style guide will be developed with content editors. Will also work through workflows for specific content.
- The Commons Governance steering committee established draft guidance.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. The draft guidance included the following:
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 tabled because Vice President, Annette Schloss was not present for the discussion 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.
