Unidata Community,
In an effort to facilitate the nomination procedure for the Policy
Committee and Users Committee, we have created a form for your
convenience. Please see:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/community/index.html#governance
Please complete the form, save it, and return it to
nominations@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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As a reminder, below is the solicitation for nominations, sent June
24th. Nomination are due August 1, 2010.
The following is being sent on behalf of Steven Businger, Chair,
Unidata Policy Committee.
Together with my colleagues at Unidata, I write to invite you to
submit nominations for new members to serve on Unidata’s Policy and
Users Committees. Unidata provides data services, tools, and
cyberinfrastructure leadership to advance Earth system science,
enhance educational opportunities and broaden participation. Over
time, these two governing committees have provided important guidance
in setting goals, accomplishing objectives, and helping to set future
directions for the program.
The Policy Committee makes recommendations to the University
Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) President and the UCAR
Community Programs (UCP) Director on Unidata’s policies, goals and
activities. The Users Committee is the primary mechanism for gaining
community feedback on the effectiveness of the program. It solicits
suggestions for changes to data streams and tools, facilitates the
exchange of ideas among users, and provides input to the program on a
range of user issues. In general, the two committees meet twice per
year. Travel support for these meetings is provided by Unidata.
We are seeking new members who can contribute their time and energy to
consider and provide guidance on issues that affect the Unidata
community, including those who can help Unidata broaden participation
from universities and colleges serving underrepresented communities,
climate-related activities, and other geoscience areas (e.g.,
hydrology, oceanography, and air quality). As always, we also seek
members who are familiar with one or more of the Unidata activities
(such as Internet Data Distribution/LDM, netCDF, GEMPAK, IDV, McIDAS
and THREDDS).
Descriptions of the two committees and their activities, lists of
current members, and summaries of past meetings can be viewed at:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/community/index.html#governance link to
Policy Committee http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/committees/polcom/ and
Users Committee http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/committees/usercom/.
In addition to the criteria noted above, members for both committees
are selected to represent a range of colleges and universities and
serve three-year terms. If you know people who would be willing and
able to serve, as well as be effective members for either committee,
please send their names (and e-mail addresses), along with a few
sentences on their qualifications to serve on the committee *by 1
August 2010* to: nominations@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Tina Campbell
Unidata
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
Phone: 303 497-8639 Fax: 303 497-8690
Email: campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
