Draft Agenda
Joint Meeting
Unidata Policy/Users Committees
15 October 2009
Boulder, Colorado
UCAR, Center Green, Building 1

Thursday, 15 October

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Administrative Matters (Businger/Whittaker)

• Adopt Agenda
• Introduction of committee members
  • Policy Committee: New Members: Gary Lackmann, Jim Steenburgh, David Tarboton (reappointment); departing: Rich Clark, Rudy Husar
  • Users Committee: New Members: Anne Case Hanks, Steven Lazarus, Patrick Market; Kevin Tyle; departing: Eugene Cordero, Gary Lackmann (chair) Scott Rochette
• Introduction of Agency Representatives: to the Policy Committee: Bernard Grant (NSF), Peter Griffith (NASA), Leroy Spayd (NOAA/NWS). To the Users Committee: Brent Gordon (NCEP), Rich Signell (USGS)
• Approve meeting agenda
• Approve May meeting notes--Policy Committee (Action Items)
• Approve April meeting notes--Users Committee (Action Items)
• Set spring meeting dates
  • Users Committee
  • Policy Committee

Meeting Summary, October 2009

9:00 Director's Report (Ramamurthy)

10:00 Budget Report (Mitchell)

Status Reports (information only)

• CADIS - Weber, Ramamurthy
• Case Studies - Weber, Ramamurthy
• Community Services - Miller, Weber, Hansen
• Decoders - Kambic
• Equipment Awards - Mitchell
• GALEON and related outreach - Domenico
• GEMPAK - NAWIPS - James
• IDV Development - Murray
• International Activities - Yoksas
• LDM/IDD - Emmerson, Schmidt, Weber, Yoksas
• LEAD - Ramamurthy
• McIDAS - Yoksas
• NetCDF - Rew, Hartnett, Heimbigner
• NEXRAD-Hydrology ITR Project - Weber, Ramamurthy
• RAMADDA - McWhirter
• Support - Yoksas
  • Support by topic
• THREDDS - Caron, Davis
• Unidata Training Workshop - Campbell
• Unidata Users Workshop
• Web Development-Oxelson

10:15 Break

10:30 NAWIPS - AWIPS II Transition (Ramamurthy, Gordon)

A Draft White Paper on GEMPAK to AWIPS II Migration (Ramamurthy)

11:30 Off-site Meetings (Businger)

11:45 Working Lunch, Agency Reports

National Science Foundation (Grant)
National Weather Service (Spayd)
NASA (Griffith)

12:30 Metrics Discussion (Continued from Spring Policy Committee Meeting) (Ramamurthy)

1:00 Integrated end-to-end data services: Community Needs (Rew, Ramamurthy)

A vision for end-to-end (E2E) data services white paper
E2E presentation
Wiki/Use Cases

1:45 Wrap up and adjournment

Address questions or comments to Jo Hansen at jhansen@unidata.ucar.edu