ESC 2011 09 19
From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
EarthCube Paper: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Discovery_White_Paper
- EarthCube site for discussion and submission is http://earthcube.ning.com/
- Our White Paper needs an Executive Summary
- Given the breakdown on topics on the Ning site, ESIP may submit this Technology paper, plus a Governance paper
- AI: ESIP higher-ups (ExCom? Carol?) consider authoring a 1-pg paper on Governance.
- AI: Everyone - read Discovery white paper, discuss if desired, please "sign" (using ~~~~)
- AI: Chris Lynnes - write Executive Summary for Discovery white paper
Ideas for Winter Meeting sessions
- Erin: link up with student fellows, working on a half day track centered around climate, including how clusters can work better
- AI: Chris Lynnes - reach out to student fellows about (1) participation in ESC Cluster and (2) what kind of help they might need
- User Story Session: focus on a specific, real-life collaboration we would like to enable/facilitate
- AI: Cluster - propose specific collaborations
- Technical Session: Possible demonstration or development within the Products and Services Testbed (Ken K.)
- Programmatic Session: Invite key program managers to give us advice on how to move the project forward
- Alternative proposed to Visioneers: panel discussion among program managers (NASA, NOAA, EPA, NSF, ...)
- Organizational Session: Recap EarthCube Charrette ideas and outcomes, figure out how we fit in with them, and replan accordingly
- Organizational Session: Figure out how to make progress along all four dimensions (programmatic, social, technical and user story) without losing focus or splintering
- e.g., form subgroups with regular tag-ups
- or...design an "organization" that enables emergent and recombinant development. (Would this mirror how a real ESC would need to self-organize? Is this even feasible?)
- Special Speaker: Author of the Understanding Infrastructure report (pdf). Mark suggests Steve Jackson.
- Technical Session: Hackathon based on a current collaboration platform (e.g., NEX, myexperiment.org, ManyEyes, ...]
- Technical Session: ESC Architecture/Design Charette (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charrette)
N.B.: This is too many sessions for a single ESIP meeting.
AI: Chris Lynnes - put out poll to see which ideas draw interest
