Agenda

Unidata Policy Committee

9-10 October 2003
Boulder, Colorado

Thursday, 2 October

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Administrative Matters (Merrill)

• Adopt Agenda
• New member introduction (Steenburgh Users Committee Chair)
• May 2003 meeting notes
• Set next meeting dates
  • Winter 04 Meeting, 5-6 February 2004
  • Spring 04 Meeting
• Review of action items from May meeting:

Action Item 1: In appointing new members, the Policy Committee (with input from UPC staff) will identify a database expert to fill an existing vacancy.
Action Item 2: In conjunction with the Users Committee, the Policy Committee will identify an Expanding Horizons Workshop participant to lead discussion during the workshop on a Unidata Program evaluation metric: i.e., to identify a process whereby an unbiased evaluation process can be identified. (AGENDA ITEM)
Action Item 3: Rich Clark and Mohan will craft a response to Tony Hansen to clarify how Unidata will assist in creating a process for facilitating the web-based forecasting exercise he requested.
Action Item 4: The Policy Committee requests that the Users Committee review and make recommendations to the Policy Committee on how to accommodate requests such as the above
Action Item 5: The Program Center should maintain awareness and monitor the pay-per-byte policy under consideration at some member sites and should consider proposing a pre-emptive solution.

8:45 Status Reports

Director's Report (Ramamurthy)
Budget Report (Graham)
Users Committee (Whittaker)

10:15 Break

10:30 Agency Reports

NSF (Grant)
NCDC (Watkins)
NWS (Helms)
NASA (Maiden)

12:00 Lunch (Fl2 Cafeteria)

1:15 CONDUIT

Policy issues (Miller)
Technical issues (Chiswell)

1:45 Expanding Horizons: What did we learn from it and what are the implications for the future

National Digital Forecast Database: Information Discussion

2:15

Progress on proposals (other than five-year and LEAD)

• NetCDF HDF5 (Russ)
• THREDDS2G (Domenico)
• DLESE Data services (Domenico)
• SGER Award (Domenico)
• NASA-REASON Award (Domenico)

LEAD (Ramamurthy)

UPC staff retreat and outcomes (Ramamurthy)

5:00 End

6:00 Working Dinner (where)

Friday, 10 October 2003

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 WSR-88D Level II data distribution (Information, Discussion) (Ramamurthy, Miller)

Equipment Awards: Analysis and Adjustments (Ramamurthy and Graham)

MeteoForum and Unidata participation policy (vis-a-vis equipment awards) (Graham? and Yoksas)