UNIDATA

Unidata Policy Committee Agenda

15-16 October 1998
NSF Headquarters, Room 730, Arlington, Virginia

Thursday, 15 October

2:30 pm Afternoon Snack

3:00 pm Administrative Matters (Chair, Merrill)

Agenda and Summary Reviews

3:30 Status Reports

5:00 Committee Reports

5:30 Agency Reports

6:00 Catered Dinner

7:00 Agency Reports (continued)

8:00 Adjourn for the night.

Friday 16 October

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Unidata's Response to NSF (Fulker)

Including discussions of Unidata's budget breakdowns

10:00 - 10:15 Break

10:15 - 10:45 Platform Support Issues (Fulker, Moody)

Users Committee Resolution 1:
The Unidata Users Committee endorses the following changes in Unidata's platform support:
A. Immediately sunset support for ULTRIX and SunOS 4.x.
B. Add support for Red Hat Linux and Solaris for Intel (x86).
C. Sunset support for OS/2 on July 31, 1999.

10:45 - 12:00 Access to Retrospective Data (Fulker, Moody)

Users Committee Resolution 2:
In agreement with the recommendation by the NSF review panel, the Users Committee recommends that the Unidata Policy Committee explore Unidata collaboration with other agencies and organizations (e.g., NCAR SCD) to facilitate access to archived meteorological data sets in a format compatible with Unidata-supported software.


12:00 - 1:30 Luncheon Break

1:30 Implications of GEMPAK's Uncertain Future (Fulker)

2:30 Unidata's Membership Policy (Fulker)

3:00 - 3:15 Break

3:15 - 4:15 Communications Structures (Bates, Domenico)

Including discussion on Unidata to community and intracommunity communications.

4:15 Unfinished Business

5:00 END

 
Prepared by J. Hansen


Questions or comments can be sent to <jhansen@unidata.ucar.edu>.