Unidata Users Committee Meeting

31 March - 1 April 2014

Unidata Program Center
FL4-Room 1201
Boulder, Colorado

Agenda

Members
Users Committee Summary October 2013
Action Items October 2013
Acronyms list and glossary of terms

Monday, 31 March 2014

8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast

8:30-9:00 Administrative Items

• Introduction: Joshua Young, Community Services Manager
• Date for Fall meeting
• Move of DeSouza award ceremony to Fall meeting
• Review of Action Items

9:00-9:15 Policy Committee Report - Mohan Ramamurthy and Kevin Tyle

9:15-10:15 Director's Report & Questions - Mohan Ramamurthy

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-11:00 Around-the-table reports from UserComm members

11:00-12:00 NCEP briefing - Michelle Mainelli, Michael James

• CONDUIT status - Michelle Mainelli will report for Becky Cosgrove
• AWIPS II briefing - Michelle Mainelli
• AWIPS II demo and beta program update - Michael James

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-1:45 Status Reports - (Users Committee should review status reports prior to the meeting) - staff will be available for questions
(Download a PDF version of agenda and status reports here)

• ACADIS - Arms, Ramamurthy, Weber
• Admin
  • Equipment Awards - Mitchell, Ramamurthy
  • Meeting and Travel Coordination - Emery
  • Training Workshop - Mitchell
• AWIPS II - James
• Community Services - Young, Dirks, Weber
• IDV with RAMADDA - Ho, Chastang, Arms
• International Activities - Yoksas
• IDD - Schmidt, Weber, Yoksas
• LDM - Emmerson
• McIDAS - Yoksas
• NetCDF - Rew, Fisher, Heimbigner
• NAWIPS/GEMPAK - James
• Python - Arms, Chastang, Domenico, Fisher, May, Rew
• Rosetta - Arms, Oxelson, Weber
• Support - Yoksas, Oxelson
• THREDDS - Caron, Arms, Davis, May, Ward-Garrison
• Unidata Outreach Progress - Domenico
• Comprehensive Metrics Data

1:45-2:00 Steering Committee Reports

2:00-2:30 Open Weather & Climate Services (“Reston Project”) status/discussion (Project Page)

2:30-2:45 Break

2:45-3:30 Available Data: High Impact Weather Prediction Project model output (Tim Schneider, Bonny Strong, Don Murray, NOAA)

3:30-4:15 IDV discussion

4:15-5:00 2015 Users Workshop

• Theme
• Subcommittee?
• Planning/next steps

5:00 Adjourn

7:00 Collaborative discussion on the day's proceedings over dinner

• Dinner at Pastavino, 1043 Pearl Street (Map)

Tuesday, 1 April 2014

8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast

8:30-9:15 Unidata Community Infrastructure demos & discussion

• Teaching resources RAMADDA site (October 2013 Action item)
• Site contacts mechanism
• Unidata web site security changes/impacts (if necessary)

9:15-10:15 Blue Sky Session

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-11:00 Open Discussion

11:00-11:15 Wrap-up session, review/assign Action Items

11:15-12:00 Executive Session

12:00 Adjourn

Note: This year's Community Equipment Award Review Panel will meet following the committee meeting (1:00 - 4:00pm)