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, April 12, 3 pm EDT

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Agenda

1. Approval of Feb & March Minutes
2. President's Report
   • Highlight
     • Sponsors visit: Erin, Christine and I met with NASA and NOAA sponsors. The purpose was to provide our sponsors an update of ESIP activities that are of specific interest to their programs and to hear how ESIP can serve them better. Other topics included ESIP Evaluation, International Data Week, Earth Science User Conference, etc.
     • Potential partners visit: We also visited US-GEO/OSTP, NIH and World Bank. The purpose was to provide potential partner/collaborative organizations a high-level overview of ESIP, share with them our strategic vision and activities, learn about their synergetic activites, and explore opportunities and collaboration.
     • Takeaways and actions from these visits can be found at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PBJFzHSGInlQYSKAlLzYXY04nXqLcMTBGvyA_gd4HJQ/edit
     • Significance: Congratulations to H.K. "Rama" Ramapriyan for having been elected as the Vice Chair of Data Stewardship Committee. Congratulations to Rich Signell for having been appointed as the Vice Chair of IT&T Committee.
     • Significance: Thanks to all the Committees, Work Groups and Clusters that have finalized their Annual Work Plans.
3. Staff Report
   • Highlights
     • Meeting News - Summer Meeting Location update; Winter Meeting Save the date - Jan 11-13, 2017, Bethesda, MD
     • Proposal Updates: NOAA Proposal Submitted! USGS Request for Proposal
     • Annie Keyes Medical Leave
4. Committee Reports
   • C&B
     • Staying tuned into Fed-Foundation integration discussions with respect to C&B interests
     • Discussed Policy & Procedure (P&P) documents and logistics - see draft hosting page
     • Drafted C&B Plans page for inclusion with requested Group Plans
   • Finance
     • No budget activity this month.
     • Some discussions with C&B on ESIP P&P page.
   • Partnership
     • Reviewed new member applications, requested additional information where necessary; ready to recommend to Assembly.
     • Drafted Committee strategic plan.
     • Recieved ESIP Welcome letter for New Member Packet; review/edits continue.
   • Data Stewardship
     • Election of H.K. Ramapriyan ("Rama") as co-chair
     • Report out from RDA attendees
     • Presentation + QA - Jennifer Saleem­ Arrigo
     • For more details on any of the above: Meeting Notes
     • "MOTION" by Rama: I move that the ESIP Federation endorse the international accord “Open Data in a Big Data World”. The endorsement form and details can be found at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LGAoUnS3vJ1-3yc5d-PZNlMyGoeKRNm4fbwXnL1qw78/viewform.
   • Education
   • IT&I
   • Nominations
     • Stay tuned for example P&P document
   • Products & Services
     • Developing guidelines for RFPs (with ExCom and Semantic Tech) and Testbed privacy and evaluations.
     • Continuing to look for participants for the software evaluation effort, will be discussing possible collaboration with Software Carpentry and working with EarthCube on a related assessment workshop.
   • Semantic Technology
     • Working on an ESIP-wide resource for semantic technology deployment
     • Working on an ESIP-wide evaluation/tutorial on ontologies and semantics with likely hands-on eval at summer meeting
     • Working with Products & Services and software group to re-use/extend evaluation and reuse metrics
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