February 2017
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February 14, 2017 Attending: Mike Daniels, Emily Law, Christine White, Helen Conover, Danie Kinkade, Matt Mayernik, Shelley Olds, Soren Scott, Erin Robinson, Bruce Caron, Rich Signell
Agenda:
NOTE As the first call of the year, this telecon is an orientation session.
Call to order - 1:03 Committee Chair Introductions - Introduce yourselves: where you work, what your interests are. Did quick round of introductions for all leadership present.
Approval of Minutes -
No need to approve the December meeting minutes (too much turnover) You can look through past ExCom telecon minutes: HERE.
Orientation
ESIP 202 - Feedback welcome: LINK TO SLIDES HERE ESIP 101 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArwUqUgIKBk To do: Update to add USGS as sponsor; Update # of members Add Type V’s Change C&B to Governance and update Admin committees to include Nom Com What’s difference between WG and Cluster? WG were allowed budget Interest in defining something that might be even less formal than a cluster Update how we explain Strategic Plan - breaks down into tactical actions and ESIP groups orient around; Annual focus on a goal. Update things ESIP does with new language around Testbed & update Last Incubator RFP: http://testbed.esipfed.org/October-2017-RFP Add github/AWS, google Can run small telecons on Slack Link calendar here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_iMhTGpvKNUzc5lF4ykXOVYqIU_itApwBPwBH2Kd8fQ Link to Processes & Procedures: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/List_of_Polices_and_Procedures
Leadership Communication
Program Committee Slack channel will handle PC business discussions between calls Governance Committee Slack channel is a place for suggestions about the relationship between the ESIP Board and the ESIP Program Committee Collaboration Lead Slack lets the PC communicate with all cluster and working group leads Identify reasons for each kind of communication channel.
President’s Report
Merger has been accomplished: ESIP is one membership organization NSF RFI ESIP response ESIP Loomio site for discussion and voting on content of this response Due Date: April 5, 2017 JOIN the ESIP site: HERE
Staff Report
Announce the new website coming in Next Week. Figshare… in the near future. All Hazards Consortium 3DM Workshop
Committee Chair Reports -
Reminder to work on the plan for the year. Future Program Committee Meetings - We will ask you to provide your group’s report a week before the committee meets Governance (Mike Daniels) - Bruce created a slack channel, Mike will ensure that committee members are also included (done!). We welcome comments on the Google Docs that are linked to our slack channel. We will schedule the first telecon for the week of Feb 20 or 27. P&S (Soren Scott) - Finalizing the software assessment guidelines through this group (new process for “endorsement”)? Board will review and approve Semantic Web (Beth Huffer, not present) - We've started working with the ESDA cluster with the idea of identifying potential adopters of semantic technologies and trying to match them with ongoing projects or upcoming projects in the Semantic Tech community. We hope that we will be able to identify potential partners for a tested proposal. Partnership - Entirely new committee has not yet met, but plans to before the end of Feb. 2017 strategic plan in draft. Danie will create Partnership Slack channel and invite committee members. Education - committee met today to discuss upcoming work for the spring and summer. See meeting notes for details: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Education/Telecon_2017-02-14 FiCom - created a slack channel
Other Business
Program Committee Plan for Year? Next Meeting - March 14, 3pm ET
