UpperOntologySummit/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting 2006 01 26

UpperOntologySummit - Organizing Committee Conference Call 2006-01-26    (JFA)

Call Details    (JFB)

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

Attendees    (JFH)

• Attended:    (JFI)
  • PeterYim    (JFK)
  • KurtConrad    (JFP)
  • DagobertSoergel    (JFL)
  • LeoObrst    (JFM)
  • BrandNiemann    (JFN)
  • PatCassidy    (JFO)

• Expecting:    (JFJ)

• Regrets:    (JFQ)
  • SteveRay (on trip)    (JFR)

Agenda (items to be discussed) Ideas    (JFS)

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

Agenda & Proceedings    (JFZ)

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda    (JG0)

• BrandNiemann took the chair and welcomed everyone.    (JG1)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes    (JG2)

• PeterYim volunteered to take minutes    (JG3)

3) Roll-call of participants - see above    (JG4)

4) Urgent matters to be attended to    (JG5)

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues    (JG6)

6) Follow-up from previous meetings    (JG7)

• responses from panelists to our invitation    (JG8)
  • got responses from: Aldo, Matthew, Barry, Guarino, ... (Adam)    (JO4)
    • Pat: talked to Matthew, he need permission, he'll get back to Pat    (JO5)
    • Pat: have not been able to reach Aldo yet    (JO6)
    • Leo: Guarino is still awaiting our response for travel funding    (JO7)

7) Status review and ongoing discussions    (JGA)

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

• who will be the co-organizers (co-sponsors)    (JGD)

• Funding requirements, sources and approach    (JO0)
  • candidate MarkGreaves of Vulcan - LeoObrst to approach him    (JO1)
    • Brand: Mark is also coming to the 4th Semantic Technology for eGov Conference at Mitre (Feb. 9~10, 2006)    (JO2)
  • candidate Christy Welty of IBM - LeoObrst to approach him    (JO3)
  • 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    (JO8)
  • 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)    (JO9)
    • Brand / Leo: the approach could be:    (JOA)
      • (i) ask people we are inviting if they are willing to do a joint proposal for a program    (JOB)
      • (ii) go to George Strawn to ask if they are willing to support the idea    (JOC)
      • (iii) arrange a presentation of that joint proposal to NSF (say, on morning of Mar. 14, 2006)    (JOD)
•    (JOH)
  • BrandNiemann: candidate Tony Stanco - Brand to approach him about connecting to angel funders    (JOF)

• discussion space for prep work    (JGE)
  • 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    (JGF)
  • updating / posting work to the wiki    (JGG)

• 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    (JGH)
  • who will champion this?    (JGI)

8) New Issues    (JGJ)

• 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    (JON)
  • 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.    (JOO)

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

9) Action Items    (JGK)

• 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)    (JG9)
  • Leo: 3/14pm - Upper Ontology Summit Joint Communique Preparation Meeting, and    (JOP)
  • Brand: 3/15am - UO Application Dialog    (JOQ)
• Pat to call all the panelists (even if they have not responded)    (JOJ)
  • if panelists are willing to do te joint proposal, Pat will add language to the "one paragraph summary" on UOS    (JOK)
• Brand to approach NSF / GeorgeStrawn in parallel    (JOL)
• Leo to approach MarkGreaves and ChrisWelty ref. involvement, sponsorship and potentially funding for travel money    (JOR)
• Peter to start a mailing list for prep work by the panelists / key participants    (JOM)

10) Next meeting date and adjournment    (JGL)

• 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)    (JGM)

• call adjourned 2:05 pm PST / 5:05 pm EST    (JGO)

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