I am trying
to skype the ID Joinconference, with the 141184# access number, but it doesn’t
work.
How do I join
the Ontolog Conference 2015 on Skype if not with that ID
and access code?
-Rich
Sincerely,
Rich Cooper
EnglishLogicKernel.com
Rich AT
EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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Dear Colleagues,
You probably realise that Peter Yim has
retired from running the Ontolog Forum, with his various
roles being taken over by the Ontolog Board of Trustees.
These are: LeoObrst,
MatthewWest, AmandaVizedom, JohnSowa, KenBaclawski, MichaelGruninger, MikeBennett,
BarrySmith, EdBarkmeyer,
PatHayes, TillMossakowski,
and MarkMusen, with Peter Yim as an
advisor.
The Board of Trustees meets about once a
month. The main purpose is to provide the infrastructure
and administration of the Ontolog Forum and for the
Ontology Summit. This includes servers and software,
conferencing facilities, wikis, and administration of
the various email lists. So as well as the meetings the
BoT members are committed to providing and managing
these things.
Twelve people trying to do part time what one
person did full time has drawbacks. The main one is that
there are some very large cracks for things to slip into.
The main focus of the latest meeting last
Thursday was Transition status and Future sessions
planning.
Infrastructure Status Report
§ Since IAOA now pays for the conference
bridge, all other session reservations need to be
coordinated, with MichaelGruninger (as point-of-contact
for IAOA) currently being the coordinator. The IAOA is
continuing to fund the current conference bridge, but is
also exploring other options.
§ PeterYim raised the issue
(that our new host organizations will need to attend to):
one needs to worry about infrastructure availability and
reliability, the latter includes security and resilience
to spam/malware attacks.
Procedures
BoT members should update the procedure page
themselves if procedures change or we spot places where
the information can be filled in.
Future Sessions planning
§ It was hoped that the Ontology-based
Standards mini-series and the Rules,Reasoning, LP
mini-series might be further developed, but no one has yet
been found willing to organize these.
§ A session on Cognitive Computing has been
proposed, but development has stalled.
§ The next meeting for the Organizing Committee
of Ontology Summit 2015 will be December 11, 2014.
Board of Trustees Membership
Some members of the Board of Trustees have
not been able to fulfil the commitments of the post. These
will be approached as to whether they wish to continue as
members.
Ontology Summit
§ Nothing has been done to set up a meeting for
the Co-Organizer board. The Co-organizer Board essentially
authorizes the Organizing Committee and commits support in
time and resources to enable it to happen.
§ One outstanding issue is that the the dates
and location of the Symposium have not yet been
determined.
Communications with Ontolog Forum.
§ JohnSowa noted there was the perception of a
lack of communication with the Ontolog Forum about BoT and
Ontology Summit business.
§ It was noted that decisions about the
ontology Summit were made by the synchronous sessions that
discussed those. The opportunity to participate in those
sessions was open to all Ontolog Forum members (amongst
others). All details of these sessions were made available
to the Ontolog Forum. This did not seem to be adequate.
§ The reality is there are significant cracks
in taking over organization of the Ontolog Forum and
Ontology Summit as we take over much of the work that
Peter Yim has done in the past.
Ontolog Board of Trustees Terms of
Reference
§ The terms of reference are not entirely
clear/robust about how decisions are made. Whilst we will
usually make decisions in a relatively informal way by
consensus, we need to recognize that difficulties in
conducting business could arise. We should therefore
include the use of Robert's Rules of Order in our Terms of
Reference.
Regards
Matthew West
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