AMS Ad Hoc Meeting, Wednesday, Jan 13, 1999 - Dallas, Texas

The following people discussed the next Unidata UserComm workshop at the AMS meeting:

We came to some measure of agreement suggesting the next Unidata workshop should take the following approach:

Our discussions circled around a few basic ideas that seemed relevant to the community: what data are available to the community (this brings up issues of community awareness and understanding of how to use what is available) , what are we doing with it, what _could_ we be doing with it

My view (which reflects both my personal opinion and my interpretation of our discussion) is that we might have three general and related goals:

  1. to educate the User Community on the data/information that is available
  2. to engage the Users in a discussion of how they are currently using data, and
  3. to foster the development (through a set of lectures and laboratories) of ideas and/or materials to enhance the application of data in University-level instruction and directed student research.

Maybe this was a slow start, and this is still a very broad topic, however, we didn't get much beyond this. Two alternate ideas were expressed for how to develop and direct this focus on data types and their applications:


Remember, these are thoughts to stimulate discussion before our
spring meeting. If you respond to this message, please include the
other UserComm members as well.
Jennie Moody, Chairperson, Unidata Users Committee

Questions or comments can be sent to usercomm@unidata.ucar.edu