Agenda

Unidata Policy Committee

22-23 September 2005
Arlington, Virginia
NSF Headquarters

Thursday, 22 September (Room 730)

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:15 Administrative Matters (Wetzel)

• New member/Representative introduction: Gene Takle, Iowa State University, Roger Wakimoto, NCAR/EOL
• Review May 2005 Summary Notes
• Set next meeting date
  • Spring 2005
• Review May 2005 Action Items:
  • Item 1: A discussion of interoperability issues will be on the agenda at the fall meeting.
  • Item 2: The committee requests that a notice be sent to all policy committee members when any new funding is acquired by the UPC.
  • Item 3: The UPC will prepare a detailed plan and schedule with milestones and target dates for metrics and evaluation activities. This will be provided to committee members by the fall meeting.
  • Item 4:The UPC will select an independent, outside consultant to provide guidance in preparing a metric for the next funding proposal, after which a working group comprising UPC staff, Policy and Users Committee representatives will be appointed to provide input to the process.

8:45 Status Reports (Tabs 10-24)

Director's Report (Ramamurthy)

9:45 Committee Report

Users Committee Report (Steenburgh)

10:00 Break

10:15 Agency Reports

NSF (Grant, Jacobs)
NASA (Goodman)
NWS (Spayd)

11:15 International Activities and Development (Ramamurthy) (Tab 25)

12:30 Lunch (Room 770)

1:30 UCAR 2005 Survey Results (Ramamurthy, Miller) (Tab 26)

3:00 Break

3:15 Unidata Metrics and Evaluation (Ramamurthy, Miller) (Tab 27)

4:45 Meeting Adjourns

6:00 Working dinner at:

Lebanese Taverna
2641 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, DC, 20008
202 265-8681

Friday, 23 September (Room 730)

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Unidata-CUAHSI-SURA/SCOOP Collaborative Proposal Ideas (Domenico) (Tab 28)

Interoperability issues

9:45 Break

10:00 Presentation of Unidata's New Web Site (Graham)

10:30 UCAR/NCAR/UOP Strategic Planning (Fellows, Ramamurthy)

11:30 Wrap-up/Unstructured Discussion

11:45 Adjournment

Address questions or comments to Jo Hansen at jhansen@ucar.edu