Unidata Policy Committee Agenda
30 September - 1 October 1997
NSF Headquarters
Arlington, VA
Tuesday, 30 October
8:30 Administrative Matters (Chair, Merrill)
Agenda and Summary Reviews
- Approve agenda
- Approve summary of May 1997 meeting
- Review status of action items from last meeting
- Select/verify next meeting dates:
5-6 February 1998, in Boulder and ??
8:45-10:15 Status Reports
- UPC Report (Fulker)
(including the case-study collaboration with COMET and JOSS)
- Budget Report (Nilsson)
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:15 Committee Reports
- User's Committee Report (Ramamurthy)
(including a report on the Summer 1997 workshop)
11:15-12:15 Agency Reports
- NSF Report (Jacobs/Grant)
(including a report on the review of Unidata's Proposal)
- NASA Report (Hasler)
- NOAA Report (Sargeant and Mary Glackin)
(including an update on AWIPS)
12:15 Lunch
1:30-3:30 Java Transition: Planning (Fulker)
3:30 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 4:15 SuomiNet (Fulker)
Responses to the latest poll
4:15 - 4:45 The Scope of IDD (Fulker)
Implications and issues of IDD expansion, for example, to SuomiNet
and NCEP model data.
4:45-5:00 Unidata's Role in a NASA CANS Proposal (Fulker)
Unidata has been written into a proposal to NASA by the Distributed
Ocean Data System organizers.
5:00 Break
6:30 Working Dinner
Wednesday, 1 October 1997
8:30-9:00 Unidata and NSF's KDI Initiative (Fulker)
Possible relationships between Unidata and the Knowledge and Distributed
Intelligence Initiative at NSF.
9:00-10:00 Unidata and the Evolving Atmospheric Sciences Undergraduate
Curricula
Brainstorming on the implications for Unidata of the rapid changes in
atmospheric science education resulting from NWS cutbacks, changes in
technology, evolving needs of universities, etc., including references to
the new UOP PAGE effort.
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:15 Continuing Discussion
11:15-11:45 Measuring Success (Fulker)
11:45-12:00 Unfinished Business and Wrap-Up
12:00 END
Prepared by J.
Hansen
Questions or comments can be sent to <jhansen@unidata.ucar.edu>.
