UpperOntologySummit/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting 2006 01 19

= UpperOntologySummit - Organizing Committee Conference Call 2006-01-19 =

Call Details

 * Date: Thursday, Jan. 19, 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: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)
 * Participant Access Code: "686564#"

Attendees

 * Attended:
 * PeterYim
 * SteveRay
 * DagobertSoergel
 * LeoObrst (will chair this call)
 * BrandNiemann
 * PatCassidy


 * Expecting:


 * Regrets:
 * KurtConrad

Agenda (items to be discussed) Ideas

 * ...(please add suggested items here)...
 * who will be the co-organizers (co-sponsors)
 * how many people will be presenting (must-haves vs. good-to-have; ... constraints)
 * 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
 * Leo: date / how many days/sessions of the UOS event; can it be moved to 2006.03.14 or 15?

Agenda & Proceedings
1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda


 * LeoObrst 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


 * write-up of the event ("one paragraph" summary)


 * engaging the panelists - sending them the invitations and follow-up phone conversation
 * Steve to send letter
 * ask panelists to respond to Steve and one of us will follow-up
 * the follow-up phone call from Pat will be made after they confirm

7) Status review and ongoing discussions


 * locking-in the date and number of sessions (ref. Leo's thread: http://interop.cim3.net/forum/uos-org/2006-01/msg00011.html)
 * Tue 2006.01.14 pm & Wed 2006.01.15 whole day, with the 'main' panel on 2006.01.15 pm. -- this is confirmed and adopted
 * Dagobert cannot be availabel 3/14
 * also mentioned the Interoperability week plenary on 3/14 morning that everyone is invited to
 * The official (announced) UOS Panel Meeting is 3/15pm; the other two workshop sessions (3/14pm & 3/15am) will be characterized as "planning and preparatory meeting"
 * panelists & key particpants will be invited the 3/14 pm meeting - LeoObrst will chair this meeting
 * panelists, key particpants, co-organizers and sponsors will be invited to the 3/15am meeting and that meeting will focus on users and funding - BrandNiemann will chair this meeting
 * the meetings will be open to all, as observers (which the chair will announced) so that we can focus on the goals
 * Naming the meetings:
 * 3/14pm - Upper Ontology Summit Joint Communique Preparation Meeting - for the UO custodians to come up with an commitment to work together to develop a common subset UO
 * 3/15am - UO Application Dialog - a dialog to explore potential exploitation of UO by business, government and other stakeholders
 * 3/15pm - Upper Ontology Summit
 * Chairs to writeup a brief description
 * Dagobert: remember to plan on remote access, recording, note taker


 * 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)

8) New Issues


 * 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

9) Action Items


 * Pat to send all panelists' e-mail address to the [uos-org] list for Steve (note missing ones)
 * Steve will tweak the invitation letter and send them out to all panelists

10) Next meeting date and adjournment


 * next call will be on Thu 2006.01.19 starting at 12:30 pm PST / 3:30pm EST (shortly after the Ontolog session, which should end around 11:45pm PST / 2:45pm EST)


 * call adjourned 1:57 pm PST / 4:57 pm EST

-- minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim / 2006.01.19-2:00pm PST