Draft Agenda

Unidata Policy Committee

October 5-6, 2000
NSF Headquarters, Arlington, Virginia, Room 730

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Administrative Matters (Ramamurthy)

• Adopt agenda
• Welcome new members
• Approve summary of May 2000 meeting
• Review status of action items from last meeting
• Set next meeting dates:
  • 1-2 February 2001, in Boulder
  • May Meeting

9:00 Status Reports

• Users Committee Report (Clark)
• NOAA Report (Faas and Darling)
• NSF Report (Jacobs)

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45 Status Reports (continued)

• Director's Report (Fulker)
  
• UPC Budget Report (Graham)
• IDD Report (Domenico)

12:00 Lunch, Room 390

1:15 Strategic Planning

Assumptions: Discuss and Adopt a Participation Policy (Graham)

• Goal 1: Real-time, self-managing data flows (Miller & Rew)
  • CONDUIT, CRAFT, SuomiNet, & other data-flow projects
  • LDM progress and next steps
  • Polcomm recommendations on Goal 1
• Goal 2: Software to visualize/analyze geoscience data (Murphy & Murray)
  • MetApps progress, including demonstrations and lessons learned

3:00-3:15 Break

3:15 Strategic Planning (continued)

• MetApps (continued) next steps & strategies
• Polcomm recommendations on Goal 2
• Goal 3: Distributed, organized collections of digital material (Domenico & Yoksas)
  • Update on collaborations with SCD
  • THREDDS, a new project to establish thematic data servers
  • Polcomm recommendations on Goal 3

5:00 Break

6:30 Working Dinner (Discussion of UCAR Survey Results)

END Day One

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Friday, 6 October

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Strategic Planning: Goals & Strategies (continued)

• Goal 4: Computer augmented discourse and discovery (Fulker)
• Goal 5: Support and engagement of diverse tool users (Fulker)
  • Polcomm recommendations on Goals 4 & 5

9:15 Unidata and the ITR Grant Programs at NSF (Fulker)

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15 Updates on Digital Library Efforts

• Fulker's role in the National SMETE Digital Library (NSDL)
• Discussion (Mike Mayhew?)

11:30 Wrap-up

12:00 END