iaoa-general
[Top] [All Lists]

[iaoa-general] Public Report IAOA-EC meeting n.55 - Wed 2012.03.14

To: iaoa-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Stefano Borgo <stefano.borgo@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:00:09 +0100
Message-id: <D3C2EA2F-E484-4C2F-9749-8014119324EE@xxxxxxxxx>
Dear IAOA-general mailing list subscribers,    (01)

please, find below the public report of the 55th IAOA Executive Council meeting.    (02)

The past public reports are collected at
http://www.iaoa.org/iaoaorga/reports/reports.html    (03)

If you are an IAOA member but do not have the password to access the IAOA 
member's area (http://www.iaoa.org/members/members.php), contact the 
association at: info@xxxxxxxx    (04)

Cheers
Stefano Borgo
on behalf of IAOA EC    (05)

---    (06)


Fifty-fifth meeting of the IAOA Executive Council (EC)
Virtual Meeting of 14 Mar 2012    (07)


Attendees:
Nicola Guarino (chair)
John Bateman
Stefano Borgo
Michael Gruninger
Ali Hashemi (invited)
Leo Obrst
Laure Vieu
Peter Yim    (08)


The EC looked at the development of the IAOA Summer School organization, see 
http://iaoa.org/isc2012/index.php
The EC favors wide participation to the school in accordance to the Association 
goals of spreading formal ontology, and suggests the Education Committee to opt 
for low registration fee.    (09)

Regarding activities organized by IAOA Committees, the EC delegates the 
decision making: the Committees are free to make their organization choices. In 
general, the EC provides guidelines and will not intervenes unless there are 
problems. The Bylaws will be drafted to portray the roles and responsibilities 
as such and will set policies in that spirit.    (010)

The IAOA treasurer and FOIS General Chair will discuss grant distribution at 
FOIS 2012.    (011)

Status of IAOA infrastructure: we are in the process of gathering material. We 
should have all in place by the end of March.    (012)

The EC was updated on the status of the ongoing Ontology Summit 2012. The 
registration to the Ontology Summit Workshop and Symposium (12 & 13-April-2012) 
is now open. Both on-site (at NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA) and remote 
participation are supported. Members are encouraged to participate in the 
weekly virtual panel sessions and at this workshop and symposium event, see: 
http://www.iaoa.org/iaoaevents/iaoaevents.php?id=4811703651443443205     (013)

The EC checked the status of the IAOA Statute and Bylaws. The Statute has been 
distributed and feedbacks have been received. The final version will be 
distributed well before the IAOA Assembly in July. 
The Bylaws will also be ready for members' feedback and will be presented for 
voting at the IAOA Assembly.    (014)

The IAOA Assembly organization is proceeding.    (015)

The EC will try to organize a special session on SIGs at FOIS to present goals 
and activities.    (016)

All SIG chairs are requested to be and remain IAOA members while on duty. This 
ensures they can access all the "member only" tools.    (017)

(End of Report)    (018)


_________________________________________________________________ 
Msg Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/iaoa-general/ 
To subscribe: send a blank email to: iaoa-general-join@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
To unsubscribe: mailto:iaoa-general-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
To join IAOA: http://www.iaoa.org/joining/joining.html 
Community Portal: http://iaoa.org     (019)
<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
  • [iaoa-general] Public Report IAOA-EC meeting n.55 - Wed 2012.03.14, Stefano Borgo <=