OntologySummit2007/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting 2007 01 26

OntologySummit2007 Organizing Committee Meeting - Fri 2007-01-26    (SRS)

• Topic: First Meeting of the full Organizing Committee for OntologySummit2007    (SRT)

• Session Chair: LeoObrst (NIST)    (SRU)

Conference Call Details    (SRV)

• Date: Thursday, January 26, 2007    (SRW)
• Start Time: 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 8:00pm CET / 19:00 GMT/UTC    (SRX)
  • ref: World Clock    (SRY)
• Expected Call Duration: 1.0 hours    (SRZ)
• Dial-in Number:    (SS0)
  • from a telephone (US): +1-712-432-4990 (Iowa, USA)    (SS1)
  • from a phone (Europe): 0870-119-1313 (UK) or 01805 00 7620 (Germany)    (SS2)
  • callers from other countries please dial into either one of the US or European numbers    (SS3)
  • Conference ID: "5823120#"    (SS4)
  • Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120    (SS5)

• Shared-screen support (VNC session), if applicable, will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/    (SS6)
  • view-only password: "ontolog"    (SS7)

• RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated.    (SS8)

Attendees:    (SS9)

• Attended    (SSA)
  • OlivierBodenreider (NLM, NIH)    (SSC)
  • PeterYim (Ontolog, CIM3)    (SSN)
  • LeoObrst (Ontolog, MITRE)    (SSI)
  • DavidWeinberger (Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society)    (SSL)
  • BarrySmith (NCOR, SUNY-Buffalo)    (SSK)

• Expecting    (SSB)
  • IvanHerman (W3C)    (SSE)
  • FrankOlken (NSF)    (SSF)
  • MarkMusen (NCOR, NCBO, Stanford SMI)    (SSH)
  • SteveRay (NIST)    (SSJ)
  • ChrisWelty (IBM Research)    (SSM)

• Regrets:    (STS)
  • NicolaGuarino (LOA-CNR.IT)    (SSD)
  • DeborahMcGuinness (Stanford KSL)    (SSG)

Agenda Ideas    (SSO)

• ... (please post here; indentify yourself for follow-up purposes)    (SSP)

Agenda & Proceedings    (SSQ)

1. Meeting called to order:    (SSR)

• LeoObrst took the chair and welcomed everyone    (SSS)
• PeterYim volunteered to take minutes of the meeting    (SWC)

2. Roll Call:    (SST)

• see above    (SSU)

3. Urgent Issues:    (SSV)

4. Outstanding Issues:    (SSW)

• introductions among the members    (SSX)
• aligning everyone's expectations as well as their understanding of our objectives    (SWE)

5. New Issues:    (SSY)

• 2007.01.18 Launch Meeting postmortem    (SSZ)
• Organizing Committee Membership    (ST0)
  • missing responses / confirmations    (ST1)
  • more web 2.0 representation - maybe as convener; ping other organizing committee members for suggestion    (ST2)
    • David suggests: Peter Morville, Peter Merholv, Jesse James Garrett (informtion architecture institute)    (SWM)
      • David will try to engage these people on our behalf (or see who else they would suggest)    (SWS)
• discussion: our deliverables    (STX)
  • 3 months of virtual discourse    (STY)
  • 3 half-day face-to-face technical workshop    (STZ)
    • (a) ...    (SWF)
    • (b) ...    (SWG)
    • (c) ...    (SWH)
  • a half-day open public meeting (with press)    (SU0)
  • a written communique    (SU1)
  • new: how about a poster? (--suggested: ppy / 2007.01.22)    (SU2)
• discussion: our approach & process    (ST4)
• Assessment of current progress    (STA)
  • seeding the discussion?    (STB)
  • assigning / self-selecting thread moderators?    (STC)
  • co-editor volunteers solicitation?    (ST3)
• distributing the organizing chore    (SWI)
  • engaging participants from specific target communties    (SWJ)
  • drafting the communique    (SWK)
  • ...    (SWL)
  • Leo: 10 dimensions (see 1/25/07 post); get people to post under an appropriate subject line    (SWN)
  • Olivier: take advantage of the wiki; list the things that we don't want to discussed    (SWO)
  • Peter: as Steve mentioned, I'll "garden" the wiki, but I'll need help    (SWP)

6. Any Other Business:    (ST5)

7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:    (ST6)

• since we were not able to get close to a full organizing committee meeting together, most of the agenda is now deferred to the next call, which is now agreed to be a 1-hour call starting at Tue 30-Jan-2007 8:00am PST / 11:00am EST / 5:00pm CET.    (SWQ)
  • we will schedule this "first" call for 1-hour, and hope that subsequent sync-up calls will only last 30 minutes each week (with most of our transactions done via the [ontology-summit-org] e-mail list.    (SWR)

• Next Meeting:    (ST7)
  • choice of regular weekly sync-up call time slot -    (SUA)
    • Nicola's preference Monday through Thursday 1:30~2:30pm EST / 10:30~11:30am PST / 7:30~8:30pm CET -- Thursdays are out because of a conflict with regularly scheduled Ontolog events    (SUB)
  • Deborah's suggested: Mon, Tue or Wednesdays, 11:30am~12:30pm EST / 8:30~9:30am PST / 5:30~6:30pm CET; sometimes i could make 8am PST / 11am EST / 5pm CET on friday    (SUG)
  • Steve: The one day I can't meet is Wednesdays after 1:30pm EST / 10:30am PST / 7:30pm CET    (SUH)
  • Ivan: Tuesday evening would be *ideal* for me at those times. Mondays and Wednesdays are not possible *at all* at those times.    (SUY)
  • Peter: on Tuesdays, I can only be available after 12:30am EST / 9:30am PST / 6:30pm CET; and will probably have to miss a few meeting (like once a month). Mon, Wed & Fridays work better for me.    (SWD)

• Call adjourned at: 8:49am PST / 11:49am EST    (ST8)

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 notes taken by: PeterYim / 2007.01.26-09:08am PST
 All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.    (ST9)