UpperOntologySummit/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting 2006 02 02

= UpperOntologySummit - Organizing Committee Conference Call 2006-02-02 =

Call Details

 * Date: Thursday, Feb. 2, 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: "68656#"

Attendees

 * Attended:
 * DagobertSoergel (chair)
 * PeterYim
 * KurtConrad
 * SteveRay
 * PatCassidy
 * LeoObrst


 * Expecting:
 * BrandNiemann


 * Regrets:

Agenda (items to be discussed) Ideas

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

Agenda & Proceedings
1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda


 * DagobertSoergel 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


 * review of last meeting's 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 / George Strawn (NSF CIO & Acting CKO) 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
 * report: [uos-convene] ( an open archived e-mail list) is now up and ready
 * all members of the UOS organizing committee is subscribed, I can add others as they start confirming their participation


 * 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
 * Steve: Doug called and talked for a while, he is wonderful if this is one of those efforts that repeats every few years, and goes nowhere.
 * Doug also thing the mid-level is more important; pragmatic usefulness is also more important;
 * Steve: my view (being very pragmatic too) that why this is necessary - help consolidate the marketplace; as a foundation for future normative standards;
 * Doug came away feeling better that we aren't just coming together to argue. Will continue to ponder, but may still need to send someone. Doug will call Steve back by the end of this week.
 * Pat: this actually doesn't every few years ... it's the first time customdians of key upper ontologies are getting together to address this matter

7) Status review and ongoing discussions


 * Tue 3/14 am meeting - NIST Plenary, instead of NSF meeting
 * NSF meeting will now be -- Tue 2/14 before the 10:30am plenary


 * 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
 * Mark already responded - regrets.
 * 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
 * Steve/2006.02.02: George may not be the right person to propose to
 * Steve/2006.02.02: rather than a grant proposal, we could try to convince them to put this as a focus for a program area
 * 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


 * 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?


 * Funding:
 * NIST is covering Adam's travel
 * funding for Guarino really needed
 * possibility (of $5K) from IBM
 * Dagobert will call MichaelUschold to get some sponsorhsip from Boeing too

8) New Issues


 * Invitation to the key participants (outside of the panelists)


 * wordsmith and adoption of a "one-line statement" of our purpose
 * see draft at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit#nidJCB


 * Dagobert: suggesting:
 * Tues mroning meeting 8:30~10:00 (before the 10:30am plenary)
 * Tue afternoon 1:00~4:00 UOS prep
 * Tue afternoon 4:00~5:30 meeting with NSF, try to get a prgram area to invest in "basic ontology work"


 * Steve: now planning media activities at NIST
 * offering the press "interviewees"


 * Tuesday afternoon meeting participants
 * Organizing Committee members, panelists, BillAndersen, MarkMusen, ChrisWelty, MichaelUschold, DieterFensel.
 * the same list will start conversing on [uos-convene]
 * Steve to send invitation (mentioning the list too) ... on their confirmation, we'll subscribe everyone and start the dialog
 * Pat will send the opening e-mail (draft to be reviewed by org comm) and then guide the conversation on the [uos-convene] list with the jhope that everything can be agreed upon before people arrives at Gaithersburg

9) Action Items


 * Pat will summarize the status of panelists (coming in person, by-phone, awaiting travel funds, regrets, ... etc.)
 * Steve to send out invitations to key participants
 * Leo to follow-up with ChrisWelty on IBM sponsorship
 * Dagobert to call MichaelUschold ref Boeing sponsorship

10) Next meeting date and adjournment


 * Next Thursday 2006.02.09 will run into a conflict with the 4th Semantic Technology for eGovernmet Conference
 * to discuss: move next call to Thu 2006.02.16 starting at 12:30 pm PST / 3:30pm EST


 * call adjourned 1:40 pm PST / 4:40 pm EST

-- minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim / 2006.02.02-4:43pm PST