Users Committee Agenda-10/04

Unidata Users Committee

Members

"Proposed" Agenda

7-8 October 2004

Boulder, Colorado

Thursday, 7 October

8:00-8:30 - Continental Breakfast

8:30 - Administrative Matters

New Members: Kevin Knupp, University of Alabama-Huntsville and Gary Lackman, North Carolina State University

Outgoing Members: Mark Laufersweiler, University of Oklahoma and Michael Morgan, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Map
Select Date for Spring Meeting
Review Action Items from March 2004 Meeting
Meeting Summary, 12-13 March 2004

9:00-9:15 - Policy Committee Report from 24-25 May 2004 meeting, Jim Steenburgh, Users Committee Liaison

9:15-10:00 - Director's Report - Mohan Ramamurthy

10:00-10:15 - Break

10:15-11:00 - Regional Workshop - Elen Cutrim, Tom Whittaker, Don Murray, Jeff McWhirter

Lessons learned
Participants input
Future plans

11:00-11:45 - DeSouza Award discussion and voting (Executive Session)

11:45-12:45 - Brown Bag Lunch - LEAD Update - Ramamurthy

12:45-1:00 - Floater Discussion - Jim Steenburgh, Tom Yoksas

1:00-1:30 - Unidata Status Reports - Unidata Staff

Unidata Status Reports - questions or comments

Community Services - Miller, Weber, Hansen
DODS/OPeNDAP - Ho
Equipment Awards - Graham/Petrie
GEMPAK - Chiswell
IDV Development - Murray
IDD/LDM - Chiswell, Emmerson, Schmidt, Weber, Yoksas
LEAD - Baltzer, Lindholm
McIDAS & MeteoForum - Yoksas
NLDM - Wilson
NetCDF - Rew, Hartnett
Support - Yoksas
THREDDS - Domenico, Caron

1:30-2:00 - National Digital Forecast Database - All

What does the community want?

2:00 - 2:45 - NOAAPORT DVB-S Broadcast - Chiswell, Schmidt, Yoksas, Michael Voss

Impact on Unidata
Number of sites moving to this technology
Content of datastream
Hardware/system requirements
Drawbacks?
Timeframe

2:45 - 3:00 - IDV Steering Committee Participation - Tom Whittaker

3:00 - 3:15 - Break

3:15 - 4:00 Phone survey responses

Overall implications
Actions needed?

4:00 - 4:45 - Initial Planning for 2006 Users Committee Workshop

Focus/topic(s)
Assessment
Schedule
Planning committee

4:45 - Adjourn

5:30 - Dinner at Linda's (Elen Cutrim, Gourmet Chef)

Friday, 8 October

8:00 - Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 9:00 - Equipment Awards - Joanne Graham, all

Planning for next round
Next panel
Guidelines for reports (broader impacts, students, faculty, Unidata community) - Jo Hansen

9:00 - 9:30 - IDD Brazil - Elen Cutrim/Tom Yoksas

9:30 - 10:00 - Case Study Report and Demo - Ben Domenico/Jeff Weber

10:00 - 10:15 - Break

10:15 - 10:30 - BAMS article update - Jo Hansen, Anton Krueger, et al

10:30 - 11:15 - Planning for next online community survey

Focus
Timing

11:15-11:30 - COMET Discussion - Arlene Laing, Greg Byrd

11:30-12:00 - Wrap up

Linda Miller
Community Services & External Liaison - Unidata
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
303 497-8646 fax: 303-497-8690