Program Committee

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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, February 9, 3 pm EDT
Webex Information

To join the Excom meeting via Webex:

Go to http://esipfed.webex.com
Click on the Meeting Center Tab
Find the Executive Committee meeting and Click Join
Enter your name, email and meeting code (23138379)

You will be prompted for audio either through your computer (follow prompts on screen) or by call in by phone (instructions below).

For phone:

Dial: 877-668-4493
Meeting Code: 23138379#
Agenda
  1. Approval of Jan Minutes
  2. GEO Update
  3. President's Report
    • Highlight
      • Significance: The Education Committee is focusing on drone for STEM. Two webinars on drones for educators are planned on March 22 and April 26. The goal of the first one is to inspire participants by sharing some of the great things drones are being used for. The second is on gathering and organizing data by drones.
      • GEO partnership: The nomination of Kathy Fontaine to be a member on the GEO Programme Board representing ESIP has been accepted. Congratulations, Kathy! She will be participating in the Program Board Work Plan Symposium to be held in Geneva in May, GEO-XIII Plenary to be held in St. Petersburg in November, as well as other periodic telecom meetings.
    • Actions
      • Contact Christine and me if you have any significant events, acknowledgement/recognition you would like to be highlighted in the President’s report.
      • Reminder: ExCom to review and add ideas to 2016 work list on the ExCom wiki. We’d like your inputs/feedback as well as help to prioritize this year’s work. This will assist in identifying opportunities to get involved.
  4. Staff Report
  5. Committee Reports
    • C&B - met on Feb 19 - topics...
      • Updating bylaws document per Winter Meeting Assembly approval
      • Preparing for participation with Federation-Foundation re-integration efforts - more to come
      • Discussed "Standing Rules" (now "Policies and Procedures") document to help groups define details beyond bylaws - template/example available for review
      • Revisiting officer terms + with respect to Fed-Found integration efforts - more to come
    • Finance
      • Status of FY16 proposed budgets: (1) approved supplemental travel budget from Data Stewardship Comm (for Force-11) and (2) responded to Semantic Technologies Comm - requested some changes and more information; specifically, an initial $ amount was approved for "AWS Computer Resources" to facilitate the analysis of requirements, options, and costs; goal of "AWS Computer Resources" is to enable a dedicated, long-term resource available ESIP-wide.
      • Ficom discussing with C&B on "standing rules" document.
    • Partnership
    • Data Stewardship
    • Education
    • IT&I
    • Nominations
    • Products & Services
    • Semantic Technology
  6. Type Rep Reports
  7. Other Business
Telecon Minutes

Draft Excom Minutes
Approved Excom Minutes

2016 Work Plan

Past ExCom Workspaces

To see prior year work plans and links