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Unidata Policy Committee Agenda

30 September - 1 October 1997

NSF Headquarters
Arlington, VA


Tuesday, 30 October

8:30 Administrative Matters (Chair, Merrill)

Agenda and Summary Reviews

8:45-10:15 Status Reports

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-11:15 Committee Reports

11:15-12:15 Agency Reports

12:15 Lunch

1:30-3:30 Java Transition: Planning (Fulker)

3:30 - 3:45 Break

3:45 - 4:15 SuomiNet (Fulker)

Responses to the latest poll

4:15 - 4:45 The Scope of IDD (Fulker)

Implications and issues of IDD expansion, for example, to SuomiNet and NCEP model data.

4:45-5:00 Unidata's Role in a NASA CANS Proposal (Fulker)

Unidata has been written into a proposal to NASA by the Distributed Ocean Data System organizers.

5:00 Break

6:30 Working Dinner


Wednesday, 1 October 1997

8:30-9:00 Unidata and NSF's KDI Initiative (Fulker)

Possible relationships between Unidata and the Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence Initiative at NSF.

9:00-10:00 Unidata and the Evolving Atmospheric Sciences Undergraduate Curricula

Brainstorming on the implications for Unidata of the rapid changes in atmospheric science education resulting from NWS cutbacks, changes in technology, evolving needs of universities, etc., including references to the new UOP PAGE effort.

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15-11:15 Continuing Discussion

11:15-11:45 Measuring Success (Fulker)

11:45-12:00 Unfinished Business and Wrap-Up

12:00 END


Prepared by J. Hansen

Questions or comments can be sent to <jhansen@unidata.ucar.edu>.