[iaoa-general] Public report of EC meeting (n.9)

[Stefano Borgo <borgo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

please find below the public report of the 9th IAOA Executive Council meeting.

All the public reports are collected at

http://www.loa-cnr.it/IAOA/public_reports.html

Cheers

Stefano Borgo

on behalf of the IAOA EC

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Ninth meeting of the IAOA Executive Council (EC)
Public Report (1 Oct 2009)

Attendees
NicolaGuarino (chair)
StefanoBorgo
PaulBuitelaar
AntonyGalton
MichaelGruninger
RiichiroMizoguchi
MarkMusen
LaureVieu
PeterYim

The EC discussed some issues left open about the FOIS 2010 organization, in
particular the possibility of joint registration with another event. Also,
alternative ways to transfer FOIS savings from the University of Toronto to
the association have been discussed. The fact that IAOA is non-profit and
non-commercial posits a series of constraints on money transfers. If needed,
IAOA might consider to get a commercial status while remaining non-profit.

A first draft for the ESF Network call has been distributed to the EC
members. The draft will be submitted to the French CNRS (due to a special
procedure implemented by France) to request the French partner IRIT to be
included among the principal participants.
The draft will be subsequently improved and extended. A list of supporting
groups will be added. The draft will be circulated to the IAOA mailing list
to collect interested members as already discussed in the previous EC
meeting (n.8).

The EC accepted the invitation and decided that IAOA joins the current
organizers (Ontolog, NIST, NCOR, NCBO, ...) of the annual "Ontology
Summit" series as a “core co-organizer”. In practice, the IAOA EC will
delegate individual(s) to represent IAOA in the Ontology Summit
organizing committee for Ontology Summit 2010 and beyond.

The EC has been informed on the recent changes in the IAOA web site (not
available on-line yet) and database features. The people involved in the
different aspects have almost completed their work notwithstanding
some last minute requests for new features.

(End of Report)

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Stefano Borgo

Researcher, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC-CNR

http://www.loa-cnr.it/borgo.html

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