UpperOntologySummit/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting 2006 01 26

= UpperOntologySummit - Organizing Committee Conference Call 2006-01-26 =

Call Details

 * Date: Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006
 * Start Time: 12:30 PM PST / 3:30 PM EST / 20:30 UTC (World Clock)
 * Expected Call Duration: 1.5 hour
 * Dial-in Number: 1-641-696-6600 (Iowa)
 * Participant Access Code: "686564#"

Attendees

 * Attended:
 * PeterYim
 * KurtConrad
 * DagobertSoergel
 * LeoObrst
 * BrandNiemann
 * PatCassidy


 * Expecting:


 * Regrets:
 * SteveRay (on trip)

Agenda (items to be discussed) Ideas

 * ...(please add suggested items here)...
 * who will be the co-organizers (co-sponsors)
 * PPY: short, medium and long term objectives
 * PPY: our approach: "confined and focused" vs. "broad and inclusive"
 * PPY: how do we involve all these different people?
 * Pat & Peter: funding and fundraising
 * PPY: getting buy-ins from the global standards community

Agenda & Proceedings
1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda


 * BrandNiemann took the chair and welcomed everyone.

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes


 * PeterYim volunteered to take minutes

3) Roll-call of participants - see above

4) Urgent matters to be attended to

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

6) Follow-up from previous meetings


 * responses from panelists to our invitation
 * got responses from: Aldo, Matthew, Barry, Guarino, ... (Adam)
 * Pat: talked to Matthew, he need permission, he'll get back to Pat
 * Pat: have not been able to reach Aldo yet
 * Leo: Guarino is still awaiting our response for travel funding

7) Status review and ongoing discussions


 * candidate particpants (various groups)
 * see additions & work-in-progress under: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit#nidIO7


 * who will be the co-organizers (co-sponsors)


 * Funding requirements, sources and approach
 * candidate MarkGreaves of Vulcan - LeoObrst to approach him
 * Brand: Mark is also coming to the 4th Semantic Technology for eGov Conference at Mitre (Feb. 9~10, 2006)
 * candidate Christy Welty of IBM - LeoObrst to approach him
 * candidate George Strawn of NSF - Brand / Peter to approach him to get NSF to be a co-organizer/sponsor, to pay for the travel and possibly have the speakers do a session at NSF too
 * BrandNiemann: consider a joint proposal to NSF for funding the UO common subset, and possibly get EU funding too (cast this as a joint US-EU effort)
 * Brand / Leo: the approach could be:
 * (i) ask people we are inviting if they are willing to do a joint proposal for a program
 * (ii) go to George Strawn to ask if they are willing to support the idea
 * (iii) arrange a presentation of that joint proposal to NSF (say, on morning of Mar. 14, 2006)
 * BrandNiemann: candidate Tony Stanco - Brand to approach him about connecting to angel funders
 * BrandNiemann: candidate Tony Stanco - Brand to approach him about connecting to angel funders


 * discussion space for prep work
 * setting up a mailing list with org-committee, panelists & key participants as subscriber - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2005_12_08#nidIHW
 * updating / posting work to the wiki


 * BrandNiemann suggests we have a report as a deliverable from this meeting to be (among others) presented to FOIS Conference in Baltimore, MD Nov. 2006, also 5th International Semantic Web conference
 * who will champion this?

8) New Issues


 * Peter brought up the potential of doing a joint phone session with UN/CEFACT (who is having their meeting in Vancouver that very same week) during late 3/15 morning of the UO Applications Dialog session
 * Pat feels that we should keep focus on potential "immediate users" (which Brand has a few in the eGov constituency). Therefore, we'll just pass on the above idea for now.


 * will talk about when we will be inviting the key participants (outside of the panelists) next week

9) Action Items


 * Leo and Brand - one paragraph write-ups for each of the prep sessions, (see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2006_01_19#nidJEJ)
 * Leo: 3/14pm - Upper Ontology Summit Joint Communique Preparation Meeting, and
 * Brand: 3/15am - UO Application Dialog
 * Pat to call all the panelists (even if they have not responded)
 * if panelists are willing to do te joint proposal, Pat will add language to the "one paragraph summary" on UOS
 * Brand to approach NSF / GeorgeStrawn in parallel
 * Leo to approach MarkGreaves and ChrisWelty ref. involvement, sponsorship and potentially funding for travel money
 * Peter to start a mailing list for prep work by the panelists / key participants

10) Next meeting date and adjournment


 * next call will be on Thu 2006.02.02 starting at 12:30 pm PST / 3:30pm EST (right after the Ontolog Nicola Guarino speaker session, which should end at 12:25pm PST / 3:25pm EST)


 * call adjourned 2:05 pm PST / 5:05 pm EST

-- minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim / 2006.01.26-2:12pm PST