DRAFT Agenda

Unidata Policy Committee

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Administrative Matters (Merrill)

• Adopt agenda tab 1
• Approve summary of May 2002 meeting tab 6
• Review status of action items from last meeting
  • Item 1: WRF article (status: done)
  • Item 2: The Users Committee will evaluate the Case Studies project
    and its importance to the user community (status: done)
  • Item 3: In addition to core funds, note all Unidata budget
    components in future reports to the committee. (status: present meeting)
  • Item 4: The Users Committee will include a community member from
    outside of Unidata's core community on its Program Committee for the
    3-year users workshop scheduled for June 2003 (status: under consideration)
  • Item 5: The Users Committee will discuss means for including
    broader community participation in users workshops and training workshops.
    The committee should consider holding regional workshops as a means for
    achieving the goal. (NOTE: two Users Committee members [Murphy and Clark]
    are discussing a possible Regional Workshop in the northeast during the fall])
  • Item 6: Next steps in 2008 proposal development: agenda item
• Governing committees' appointment processes tab 29

9:00 UPC Reports

• Director's Report (Domenico) tab 10
• Budget Report (Graham) tab 8

10:00 Break

10:15 Committee Reports

• Users (Clark)
• MetApps (Murphy)

10:45 Agency Reports

• NSF (Jacobs) tab 20
• NCDC (Watkins) tab 21
• NWS (Helms) tab 22
• NASA (Maiden) tab23

1:15 Other Proposals

• DLESE (Domenico) tabs 25, 26, and 27
• NASA/NCSA (Rew)
• THREDDS-2 (Domenico)

2:15 5-year Funding Proposal (Domenico, Ramamurthy) tab 24

• Introduction (Ramamurthy)

3:00 Break

3:15 Goals (Domenico)

• A Broader and more diverse Community
• Comprehensive Support Services
• Real-time, Self-managing Data Flows
• Software to Visualize and Analyze Geoscience Data
• Distributed, Organized Collections of Digital Material

6:00 Working Dinner

Friday, 18 October 2002, Room 525

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 5-year Funding Proposal (Continued)

• Goals (Domenico)
  • Improved Scientific Data Access Infrastructure
  • New Data Types and Sources
• Governance (Domenico)
• Broader Impacts (Ramamurthy)
• Methodology (Ramamurthy)

10:15 Break

10:30 Funding Proposal (Continued)

• Resource Requirements (Domenico)
• Summary of Activities Proposed and Work Accomplished (Domenico)

11:30 Wrap up

12:00 Meeting Ends