UpperOntologySummit/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting 2006 01 19

UpperOntologySummit - Organizing Committee Conference Call 2006-01-19    (JAP)

Call Details    (JAQ)

• Date: Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006    (JAR)
• Start Time: 12:30 PM PST / 3:30 PM EST / 20:30 UTC (World Clock)    (JAT)
• Expected Call Duration: 1.5 hour    (JAU)
• Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)    (JAV)
• Participant Access Code: "686564#"    (JAW)

Attendees    (JAX)

• Attended:    (JAY)
  • PeterYim    (JB3)
  • SteveRay    (JB1)
  • DagobertSoergel    (JB5)
  • LeoObrst (will chair this call)    (JB0)
  • BrandNiemann    (JB6)
  • PatCassidy    (JB2)

• Expecting:    (JAZ)

• Regrets:    (JB7)
  • KurtConrad    (JB4)

Agenda (items to be discussed) Ideas    (JB8)

• ...(please add suggested items here)...    (JB9)
• who will be the co-organizers (co-sponsors)    (JBA)
• how many people will be presenting (must-haves vs. good-to-have; ... constraints)    (JBB)
• PPY: short, medium and long term objectives    (JBC)
• PPY: our approach: "confined and focused" vs. "broad and inclusive"    (JBD)
• PPY: how do we involve all these different people?    (JBE)
• Pat & Peter: funding and fundraising    (JBF)
• Leo: date / how many days/sessions of the UOS event; can it be moved to 2006.03.14 or 15?    (JBG)

Agenda & Proceedings    (JBH)

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda    (JBI)

• LeoObrst took the chair and welcomed everyone.    (JBJ)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes    (JBK)

• PeterYim volunteered to take minutes    (JBL)

3) Roll-call of participants - see above    (JBN)

4) Urgent matters to be attended to    (JBO)

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues    (JBP)

6) Follow-up from previous meetings    (JBQ)

• write-up of the event ("one paragraph" summary)    (JBZ)

• engaging the panelists - sending them the invitations and follow-up phone conversation    (JC0)
  • Steve to send letter    (JE7)
    • ask panelists to respond to Steve and one of us will follow-up    (JE8)
    • the follow-up phone call from Pat will be made after they confirm    (JE9)

7) Status review and ongoing discussions    (JBR)

• locking-in the date and number of sessions (ref. Leo's thread: http://interop.cim3.net/forum/uos-org/2006-01/msg00011.html)    (JC1)
  • Tue 2006.01.14 pm & Wed 2006.01.15 whole day, with the 'main' panel on 2006.01.15 pm. -- this is confirmed and adopted    (JE1)
    • Dagobert cannot be availabel 3/14    (JE2)
  • also mentioned the Interoperability week plenary on 3/14 morning that everyone is invited to    (JE3)
  • The official (announced) UOS Panel Meeting is 3/15pm; the other two workshop sessions (3/14pm & 3/15am) will be characterized as "planning and preparatory meeting"    (JEA)
  • panelists & key particpants will be invited the 3/14 pm meeting - LeoObrst will chair this meeting    (JEB)
  • panelists, key particpants, co-organizers and sponsors will be invited to the 3/15am meeting and that meeting will focus on users and funding - BrandNiemann will chair this meeting    (JEC)
    • the meetings will be open to all, as observers (which the chair will announced) so that we can focus on the goals    (JEF)
• Naming the meetings:    (JEJ)
  • 3/14pm - Upper Ontology Summit Joint Communique Preparation Meeting - for the UO custodians to come up with an commitment to work together to develop a common subset UO    (JEG)
  • 3/15am - UO Application Dialog - a dialog to explore potential exploitation of UO by business, government and other stakeholders    (JEH)
  • 3/15pm - Upper Ontology Summit    (JEI)
  • Chairs to writeup a brief description    (JEK)
  • Dagobert: remember to plan on remote access, recording, note taker    (JEL)

• candidate particpants (various groups)    (JC2)
  • see additions & work-in-progress under: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit#nidIO7    (JER)
• who will be the co-organizers (co-sponsors)    (JBA)

8) New Issues    (JBS)

• BrandNiemann suggests we have a report as a deliverable from this meeting to be (among others) presented to FOIS Conference in Baltimore, MD Nov. 2006, also 5th International Semantic Web conference    (JEE)

9) Action Items    (JBT)

• Pat to send all panelists' e-mail address to the [uos-org] list for Steve (note missing ones)    (JES)
• Steve will tweak the invitation letter and send them out to all panelists    (JET)

10) Next meeting date and adjournment    (JBU)

• next call will be on Thu 2006.01.19 starting at 12:30 pm PST / 3:30pm EST (shortly after the Ontolog session, which should end around 11:45pm PST / 2:45pm EST)    (JBW)

• call adjourned 1:57 pm PST / 4:57 pm EST    (JBX)

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 minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim / 2006.01.19-2:00pm PST    (JBY)