OntologySummit2007/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting 2007 01 26

= OntologySummit2007 Organizing Committee Meeting - Fri 2007-01-26 =


 * Topic: First Meeting of the full Organizing Committee for OntologySummit2007


 * Session Chair: LeoObrst (NIST)

Conference Call Details

 * Date: Thursday, January 26, 2007
 * Start Time: 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 8:00pm CET / 19:00 GMT/UTC
 * ref: World Clock
 * Expected Call Duration: 1.0 hours
 * Dial-in Number:
 * from a telephone (US): +1-712-432-4990 (Iowa, USA)
 * from a phone (Europe): 0870-119-1313 (UK) or 01805 00 7620 (Germany)
 * callers from other countries please dial into either one of the US or European numbers
 * Conference ID: "5823120#"
 * Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120


 * Shared-screen support (VNC session), if applicable, will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/
 * view-only password: "ontolog"


 * RSVP to [mailto:peter.yim@cim3.com peter.yim@cim3.com] appreciated.

Attendees:

 * Attended
 * OlivierBodenreider (NLM, NIH)
 * PeterYim (Ontolog, CIM3)
 * LeoObrst (Ontolog, MITRE)
 * DavidWeinberger (Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society)
 * BarrySmith (NCOR, SUNY-Buffalo)


 * Expecting
 * IvanHerman (W3C)
 * FrankOlken (NSF)
 * MarkMusen (NCOR, NCBO, Stanford SMI)
 * SteveRay (NIST)
 * ChrisWelty (IBM Research)


 * Regrets:
 * NicolaGuarino (LOA-CNR.IT)
 * DeborahMcGuinness (Stanford KSL)

Agenda Ideas

 *  ... (please post here; indentify yourself for follow-up purposes)

Agenda & Proceedings
1. Meeting called to order:


 * LeoObrst took the chair and welcomed everyone
 * PeterYim volunteered to take minutes of the meeting

2. Roll Call:


 * see above

3. Urgent Issues:

4. Outstanding Issues:


 * introductions among the members
 * aligning everyone's expectations as well as their understanding of our objectives

5. New Issues:


 * 2007.01.18 Launch Meeting postmortem
 * Organizing Committee Membership
 * missing responses / confirmations
 * more web 2.0 representation - maybe as convener; ping other organizing committee members for suggestion
 * David suggests: Peter Morville, Peter Merholv, Jesse James Garrett (informtion architecture institute)
 * David will try to engage these people on our behalf (or see who else they would suggest)
 * discussion: our deliverables
 * 3 months of virtual discourse
 * 3 half-day face-to-face technical workshop
 * (a) ...
 * (b) ...
 * (c) ...
 * a half-day open public meeting (with press)
 * a written communique
 * new: how about a poster? (--suggested: ppy / 2007.01.22)
 * discussion: our approach & process
 * Assessment of current progress
 * seeding the discussion?
 * assigning / self-selecting thread moderators?
 * co-editor volunteers solicitation?
 * distributing the organizing chore
 * engaging participants from specific target communties
 * drafting the communique
 * Leo: 10 dimensions (see 1/25/07 post); get people to post under an appropriate subject line
 * Olivier: take advantage of the wiki; list the things that we don't want to discussed
 * Peter: as Steve mentioned, I'll "garden" the wiki, but I'll need help
 * Peter: as Steve mentioned, I'll "garden" the wiki, but I'll need help

6. Any Other Business:

7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:


 * since we were not able to get close to a full organizing committee meeting together, most of the agenda is now deferred to the next call, which is now agreed to be a 1-hour call starting at Tue 30-Jan-2007 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 5:00pm CET.
 * we will schedule this "first" call for 1-hour, and hope that subsequent sync-up calls will only last 30 minutes each week (with most of our transactions done via the [ontology-summit-org] e-mail list.

possible *at all* at those times.
 * Next Meeting:
 * choice of regular weekly sync-up call time slot -
 * Nicola's preference Monday through Thursday 1:30~2:30pm EST / 10:30~11:30am PST / 7:30~8:30pm CET -- Thursdays are out because of a conflict with regularly scheduled Ontolog events
 * Deborah's suggested: Mon, Tue or Wednesdays, 11:30am~12:30pm EST / 8:30~9:30am PST / 5:30~6:30pm CET; sometimes i could make 8am PST / 11am EST / 5pm CET on friday
 * Steve: The one day I can't meet is Wednesdays after 1:30pm EST / 10:30am PST / 7:30pm CET
 * Ivan: Tuesday evening would be *ideal* for me at those times. Mondays and Wednesdays are not
 * Peter: on Tuesdays, I can only be available after 12:30am EST / 9:30am PST / 6:30pm CET; and will probably have to miss a few meeting (like once a month). Mon, Wed & Fridays work better for me.


 * Call adjourned at: 8:49am PST / 11:49am EST

-- notes taken by: PeterYim / 2007.01.26-09:08am PST All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.