Agenda

Unidata Policy Committee Meeting
Thursday and Friday, September 7-8, 2006
University of Hawaii, Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Building, Room 414

Thursday, September 7

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks (Brian Taylor, Dean, School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology)

8:30 Administrative Matters (Wetzel)

• Approve Agenda
• Set next Meeting Dates
• Approve April 2006 Meeting Notes
• Thanks departing members, welcome new

8:45 Review of April 2006 Action Items (Wetzel)

1. The Policy Committee will review the planned agreement for the USPLN lightning dataset and make recommendations with respect to the Unidata Users agreement and Unidata community needs by 15 May. (Thursday 11:30 Agenda Item)
2. The Policy Committee suggests that the UPC consider offering an advanced IDV workshop during the July/August 2007 training workshop sessions that would include training in IDV software development.
3. The Policy Committee requests that a full half day be devoted to Unidata Strategic plan development to include input from committee members. (Friday morning Agenda Item)
4. M. Wetzel will work with UPC to follow up on the meeting discussion on possible strategies to promote sister-university type collaborations that advance the use of Unidata software and datastreams. (3:30 Thursday Agenda Item)
   

9:00 Status Reports

• Director's Report (Ramamurthy)
• Budget Report (Ramamurthy/Mitchell)

10:00 Break

10:15 Committee Report

Users Committee Report (Steenburgh)

10:30 Agency Reports

• NSF (Jacobs)
• NWS (Spayd)
• NASA (Herring)

11:30 Short Discussion Items

• LEAD project outcomes (Ramamurthy)
• USPLN Issue and Related Data Policy

12:00 Lunch Break

1:15 Progress Report on Metrics and Assessment Study (Miller, Ramamurthy)
(Tab 28)

2:15 An update on the competition for the management of NCAR (Jacobs)

3:00 Break

3:30 International Activities and Collaborations (Ramamurthy, Wetzel, and others)
(Tab 29)

5:00 Adjournment

6:30 Reception and Working Dinner at the Businger Residence

Friday, September 8

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:15 Development of Unidata's Strategic Plan (Ramamurthy and others)
(Tab 30)

• Outline
• Vision
• Mission
• Goals
• Values

9:45 Break

10:00 Strategic Plan Discussion (continued)

12:00 Lunch Break

1:00 Follow-on Discussion from the Users Workshop (Steenburgh)
(Tab 31)

2:45 Break

3:00 Informal Visits with University of Hawaii Faculty

5:00 Adjournment

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