Conference Call 2003-05-08

UBL-Ontology Project Conference Call - Thu 2003-05-08    (6J5)

• Conference Call Details:    (6J6)
  • Subject: [ubl-ontology] project conference call    (6J7)
  • Comments/Agenda:    (6J8)
    • Agenda Comments: ... build rapport; ... sync up; ... distribute, assign or arbitrate virtual ownership of tasks; ... and use it to deal with emergencies. ... plus, member suggested agenda items.    (6J9)
    • Please post you suggested agenda items if you would like to see anything put onto the agenda    (6JA)
    • please post or upload any material to be shared to the list, to the wiki or by ftp upload prior to the meeting    (6JB)
    • VNC session will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc3.cim3.net:5800/    (6JC)
      • view-only password: "ontolog"    (6JD)
      • view-and-control pw: "ontology"    (6JE)
    • During the call, please browse the wiki page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Conference_Call_2003-05-08    (6JF)
  • Date: Thursday, May 8, 2003    (6JG)
  • Start Time: 10:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time    (6JH)
  • End Time: 11:25 AM Pacific Daylight Time    (6JI)
  • Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)    (6JJ)
  • Participant Access Code: "030508"    (6JK)

• Attendees:    (6JL)
  • AdamPease    (6JM)
  • KurtConrad    (6JN)
  • PeterYim    (6JO)
  • BillMcCarthy    (6JP)

•    (6JQ)
  • Regrets:    (6JR)
    • MonicaMartin    (6JS)
    • LeoObrst    (6JT)

Agenda Ideas    (6JU)

Agenda & Proceedings    (6JV)

1) Welcome    (6JW)

• KurtConrad took the chair and welcomed everyone.    (6JX)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes    (6JY)

• PeterYim volunteered to take minutes on the wiki in real time.    (6JZ)

3) Roll-call of participants    (6K0)

• see above.    (6K1)

4) Communication logistics & work protocols    (6K2)

• KurtConrad and PeterYim discussed the issue and felt that the process is sufficient for now.    (6K4)

• KurtConrad brought up that the RecentChanges page when mailed, aren't providing the links correctly. PeterYim will look into that.    (6K6)

• users are requested to do both for the sake of other users.    (6K8)

5) Status on use cases (http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseCases)    (6K9)

• Bill reported that nothing has been done yet, Bill still needs to get in touch with Mike. He be resuming work soon, now that the school term is over.    (6KB)

• PeterYim reports that he had made a first draft and request people to review and comment. See http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseCasesContextDrivenAddressFormat#nid085    (6KD)

• no update reported.    (6KF)

6) Report to UBL committee    (6KG)

• KurtConrad will send a message to SueProbert to see if there were feedback from the UBL meeting that we should be aware of.    (6KI)

7) Language & tools selection    (6KJ)

• meeting agrees that issue is pretty much settled and request that people to continue posting to forum or to wiki page if they have further input.    (6KM)

8) Status of analysis and formalization of UBL models    (6KN)

• Bill reported that nothing has been done yet, will start soon that that the school term is over.    (6KQ)
• no further update    (6KR)

• item postponed to next meeting.    (6KU)

9) Engaging others in formalization    (6KV)

• we may have a training issue - we don't have people who are conversant with the tools yet.    (6KW)

• suggested that we have a combined Protege / SUMO tutorial session    (6KX)
  • AdamPease can do that around end May (he is already preparing one for SUMO & Ontology now)    (6KY)
  • date set to Thu 2003-05-29 a 1 hour session (and then another session in a couple of weeks, if the interest is there.)    (6KZ)
  • if people are interested, we may be able to do the same session at two different times.    (6L0)
  • we might even separate out the protege tutorial to a second session.    (6L1)
  • AdamPease will start a thread on the turtoial.    (6L2)

10) Sponsorship    (6L3)

• Peter suggested that volunteering is a great way to start, but probably not sustainable;    (6L4)
• other thoughts:    (6L5)
  • funding is an issue and needs to be addressed    (6L6)
  • subscription and sponsorships    (6L7)
  • one page proposal and then start calling    (6L8)
  • go after a government grant like SBIR    (6L9)

11) Methodology Refinement (http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Methodology)    (6LA)

• no update    (6LB)

12) Tasking    (6LC)

• no update    (6LF)

13) Other business    (6LG)

• none    (6LH)

14) Next meeting date and adjourn    (6LI)

• Thu 2003-05-15 10:30-11:30am PDT    (6LJ)
• Meeting adjourned at 11:19am    (6LK)

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 Minutes taken by PeterYim on the wiki in real time
 ppy / 2003-05-08_11:19 PDT    (6LL)