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ESIP Federation Executive Committee, February 14, 2013

Participants: Carol Meyer, Curt Tilmes, Erin Robinson, Annette Schloss, John Scialdone, Emily Law, Chris Mattman, Roberta Johnson, Brian Wee, Matt Austin, Steve Berrick

Meeting called to order at 2:04 by Annette Schloss

Welcome and Introductions - Welcome to new members, Brian, Emily, Roberta and Chris
Approval of November minutes -Brian made a motion to adopt the minutes as drafted. The motion was seconded by Chris Mattman. Without discussion, the minutes were approved by acclamation.
ESIP Meetings
- Winter Recap (Meeting Survey Results) - Carol recapped the Winter Meeting. The attendance was above our expectations given the budget restrictions. The program was well-received - feedback like too many things I wanted to attend at the same time. Thank you to all that helped plan the sessions. Feedback on the plenary sessions both day. The theme on the Climate Assessment was well-timed. The second day interagency panel was a catalyst for an OSTP interagency project on EarthData, more details will come in March.
- Summer Planning (Planning Page) - Call for sessions will go out on the 1st of March. The meeting will be in Chapel Hill, NC. We have the opportunity to take over the museum on Day 2 of the meeting. It has a few spaces available - immersive theater, 3 story Daily planet - relevance of data to natural disasters, also a visualization lab for training. The theme for the meeting Building the Value Chain for Earth Science Data and Information in Disaster Planning, Response, Management and Awareness. The rest of the meeting will be at the Friday Center, continuing ed facilities there. John Scialdone - NC State Meteorologist, state climatologist? Carol has connections and will follow-up on that. Emily suggested reaching out to geospatial cluster and connections have been made. There will also be a teacher workshop at this meeting led by Margaret Mooney.
Committee Round Robin
- Chris Mattmann - P&S Vision - help ESIP facilitate member projects and their use of computing and storage resources; bring forth collaborations with external open source foundations including Apache; and to make best use of Earth science information products and services within that scope, and with modern big data technologies.
- Matt Austin - Reminder that there is an IT&I call at 3pm w/David Maidment, UT-Austin
- Roberta Johnson - First committee call next week, this time. A number of big issues around education that ESIP can help with - (1) next gen science standards coming out shortly and unclear how implemented in K-12 classrooms. (2) NESTA - ESIP leverage the connection and network of teachers that are members of NESTA to learn about what ESIP has to offer. Looking at Summer conference - NESTA teachers will be engaged.
- John Scialdone - Class of 4 applications so far.
- Brian Wee - On task force to evaluate nation's environmental observation systems wants to carry the conversation with OSTP SBAs and GEOSS SBAs - what extent has he extended analysis to encompass data centers that make those observation available? Matt - NESDIS has done analysis on behalf of OSTP in the PALMA tool created by MIDAR. Would also like to extend to information systems - are accessible through services and standards?
Raskin Scholarship Launch - The Foundation for Earth Science received a gift from Rob's family to support a current graduate student in computer, earth or informatics science. It goes back to Rob's mentoring of students through out his life. A small team came up with the award - the student winner will give a talk. We will go out in the spring for nominations and we will award in Jan. 2014.
Other Business
- John -We have closed the task on international/domestic partnership

Chris Mattman made a motion to adjourn the meeting with a second by Roberta. The meeting adjourned at 2:46.

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-'''ESIP Federation Executive Committee, November 8, 2012'''
+'''ESIP Federation Executive Committee, February 14, 2013'''
-Participants: Karl Benedict, Ken Keiser, Carol Meyer, Curt Tilmes, Erin Robinson, Annette Schloss, John Scialdone, Sayeed Choudhury, Matt Austin, Steve Berrick, Brian Wilson
+Participants: Carol Meyer, Curt Tilmes, Erin Robinson, Annette Schloss, John Scialdone, Emily Law, Chris Mattman, Roberta Johnson, Brian Wee, Matt Austin, Steve Berrick
-Meeting called to order at 2:05 by Karl Benedict
+Meeting called to order at 2:04 by Annette Schloss
-# Approval of [[Draft Excom Minutes| October minutes]] - Sayeed Choudhury made a motion to adopt the minutes as drafted. The motion was seconded by John Scialdone. Without discussion, the minutes were approved by acclamation.<br>
+# Welcome and Introductions - Welcome to new members, Brian, Emily, Roberta and Chris
-# Presentation on the Research Data Alliance (http://www.rd-alliance.org/) - Sayeed Choudhury
+# Approval of [[Draft Excom Minutes| November minutes]] -Brian made a motion to adopt the minutes as drafted. The motion was seconded by Chris Mattman. Without discussion, the minutes were approved by acclamation.<br>
-#* The purpose of the Research Data Alliance is to accelerate international data-driven innovation and discovery by facilitating research data sharing and exchange, use and re-use, standards harmonization, and discoverability. This will be achieved through the development and adoption of infrastructure, policy, practice, standards, and other deliverables. It is a collaborative effort across the U.S., Europe and Australia.
+# ESIP Meetings
-#* RDA looking for specific input from ESIP in two areas:
+#*Winter Recap ([http://bit.ly/WLg2gH Meeting Survey Results]) - Carol recapped the Winter Meeting. The attendance was above our expectations given the budget restrictions. The program was well-received - feedback like too many things I wanted to attend at the same time. Thank you to all that helped plan the sessions. Feedback on the plenary sessions both day. The theme on the Climate Assessment was well-timed. The second day interagency panel was a catalyst for an OSTP interagency project on EarthData, more details will come in March.
-#** In general, do we see role for both RDA and ESIP?
+#*Summer Planning ([[Summer 2013 Meeting|Planning Page]]) - Call for sessions will go out on the 1st of March. The meeting will be in Chapel Hill, NC. We have the opportunity to take over the museum on Day 2 of the meeting. It has a few spaces available - immersive theater, 3 story Daily planet - relevance of data to natural disasters, also a visualization lab for training. The theme for the meeting Building the Value Chain for Earth Science Data and Information in Disaster Planning, Response, Management and Awareness. The rest of the meeting will be at the Friday Center, continuing ed facilities there. John Scialdone - NC State Meteorologist, state climatologist? Carol has connections and will follow-up on that.  Emily suggested reaching out to geospatial cluster and connections have been made. There will also be a teacher workshop at this meeting led by Margaret Mooney.
-#** Looking for the potential to co-locate a meeting in DC in January or have a breakout session as part of ESIP Winter Meeting.
+# Committee Round Robin
-#* Group discussion -
+#*Chris Mattmann - P&S Vision - help ESIP facilitate member projects and their use of computing and storage resources; bring forth collaborations with external open source foundations including Apache; and to make best use of Earth science information products and services within that scope, and with modern big data technologies.
-#** The group saw some clear overlap between activities like documentation and data preservation. RDA seems to extend to the biology and ecology communities outside of Earth science. The group was curious on practical, concrete ways we may work together.
+#* Matt Austin - Reminder that there is an IT&I call at 3pm w/David Maidment, UT-Austin
-#** How can an organization or individual get involved? TBD. There is a council that will expand in the next several months. RDA also has working groups that are open and mailing lists. The membership model is still unclear.
+#* Roberta Johnson - First committee call next week, this time. A number of big issues around education that ESIP can help with - (1) next gen science standards coming out shortly and unclear how implemented in K-12 classrooms. (2) NESTA - ESIP leverage the connection and network of teachers that are members of NESTA to learn about what ESIP has to offer. Looking at Summer conference - NESTA teachers will be engaged.
-#** Are working group activities funded? At this point, no.
+#* John Scialdone - Class of 4 applications so far.
-# Excom Business
+#* Brian Wee - On task force to evaluate nation's environmental observation systems wants to carry the conversation with OSTP SBAs and GEOSS SBAs - what extent has he extended analysis to encompass data centers that make those observation available? Matt - NESDIS has done analysis on behalf of OSTP in the PALMA tool created by MIDAR. Would also like to extend to information systems - are accessible through services and standards?
-#* Update on Winter Meeting - Carol Meyer gave the meeting update. We have extended plenary speaker invitations, many are confirmed and we expect the rest to confirm in the next few weeks. Breakout sessions are shaping up nicely with 26 submitted so far. We will have a tentative agenda at the end of this week and expect to have a full meeting. One reminder to the group about awards - President and ESIP partner, nominations are due Dec. 1
+# Raskin Scholarship Launch - The Foundation for Earth Science received a gift from Rob's family to support a current graduate student in computer, earth or informatics science. It goes back to Rob's mentoring of students through out his life. A small team came up with the award - the student winner will give a talk. We will go out in the spring for nominations and we will award in Jan. 2014.
-#* 2013 Summer Meeting - Carol Meyer gave the summer meeting update. We will be having our meeting July 9-12 at the Friday Center, UNC-Ch in Chapel Hill, NC. DataOne and others will potentially co-locate their meetings with us. We are also working with the NC Museum of Science for our reception.
+# Other Business
-#* Update on Foundation Board Retreat - The Foundation Board met the week of Oct. 22. Over the history of the Board there has not been a strong need for planning outside of what already happens through ESIP. In the last year, the Foundation has been approached about supporting other Earth Science relevant communities. The Board came away with three actions:
+#* John -We have closed the task on international/domestic partnership
-#** Review existing governance documents
-#** Establish mission, vision and values
-#** Market analysis
-#* Action: Add this topic to Winter Meeting Annual Business Meeting as point of information.
-# Committee Reports <br>
-#*  Partnership is planning to hold a call in Nov. to discuss what it means to be an international ESIP member and how ESIP might best serve international members.
-# Other Business - No other business
-Steve Berrick made a motion to adjourn the meeting with a second by Ken Keiser. The meeting adjourned at 2:53.
+Chris Mattman made a motion to adjourn the meeting with a second by Roberta. The meeting adjourned at 2:46.