Draft Excom Minutes

Attendees

• Denise Hills, Nomination Committee
• Ken Keiser, Chair, C&B
• Tyler Stevens, Chair, Partnership
• Ethan Davis, Chair, IT&I
• Christine White, Chair, Products and Services
• Erin Robinson, Staff
• Annie Burgess, Staff
• Emily Law, Vice President
• Justin Goldstein, Chair, Data Stewardship
• Bill Teng, FiCom
• Margaret Mooney, Education
• Ted Habermann, Type III Rep

Executive Committee Business

1. Approval of May Minutes

   Denise motioned to approve Minutes as amended and Christine seconded. The minutes were approved by acclamation.

2. President's Report
   • State of the Federation - Annie is on board and will be reaching out for input to State of Federation
   • Summer Meeting - Please register for the Summer Meeting by June 15
   • Nominations Season - Start thinking of nominations and please let Denise know. We are looking for multiple award nominations and leadership positions.
   • Budget cycles for Federation and Foundation - Hoping to have something more definitive.
3. Executive Director Report (Soon to be staff report)
   • FES Budget - Currently, spinning up the FES finance committee; There will be progress after the July meeting.
   • Community Director Report - Alaska Satellite Member Highlight went out this month. AB is also adding an ESIP Interview as a new content feature; Starting a new event at the Summer Meeting, Collaboration Area Showcase - where we will highlight ESIP Collaboration Area work
4. Summer Meeting 2015
   • Agenda, Accommodations & Registration (Member/excom)
   • Logistics/Accommodations - Room block will close on June 15;
   • Agenda Update - Finalized all breakout locations;
   • Special Events - Community Resilience Workshop (1/2 day on Wednesday); Education Workshop (Call for CA Teachers)
5. Strategic Plan Update
   • Workspace & Roadmap - Denise Hills and Chris Lenhardt shared update of strategic plan. Share at the Summer Meeting - Introduce in the State of the Federation; Final feedback for comments starting. Annie will migrate documents to the online space.
6. Committee Reports
   • Partnership - The new members are up for review. Please review/comment on the draft Code of Conduct
   • C&B - Ken pulled together all electronic votes. Moving forward those votes need to be reported out at the annual assembly meeting; There is a request from the Semantic Web cluster to be added as a committee. Is the vote electronic or wait?
     • The group discussed the semantic technology application to become a new committee. There was a concern that committees might be too easy to form. It has not happened very often; It allows the group to be more visible and accountable to the larger community. ExCom will need to approve the application and then the Assembly will follow-up. Ken will vet the application through C&B. Ken will draft email to ExCom with current state to consider.
   • Data Stewardship - Sophie Hou reported that the committee is exploring additional funding opportunities and opportunities for publication; Looking for new projects for the second half of the year. There are several sessions at the Summer Meeting; Recently accepted publication on the Data Management Short Course. We are looking for ESIP participants for GEO Data Management Principles work group.
   • Education - No report
   • IT&I - Rants & Raves coming up; This Thurs - NDS will present; August - Rich Signell, USGS; In addition to rants/raves, the group is considering updating the interoperapedia and data recipes.
   • Nominations - Please reach out to Denise on nomination ideas. If you are a current chair willing to run again, please let Denise know.
   • P&S - (1) Two new RFP's out. In the first RFP, there is a new special *fast track* RFP. The second RFP is a prototype assessment on AIST prototypes. (2) FUNding Friday - Will we have a happy hour to network for FUNding Friday evening? Move it to after dinner, 7-8:30 hang out.
7. Type Rep Reports
   • No Type Rep reports
8. Other Business
   • No July Meeting