Agenda

Unidata Policy Committee Meeting
Monday and Tuesday, 29-30 October 2007
Unidata Conference Room, FL4 1318

See: Unidata Acronym/Glossary List

Monday, October 29

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Administrative Matters (Businger)

• Approve Agenda
• Committee appointments:
  • Welcome new members Mike Bevis and Vanda Grubisic
  • Committee/staff introductions
  • Thank you to outgoing committee member, Jim Koermer
• Set next Meeting Dates
• Approve July 2007 Summary Notes
• Review of action items from the summer meeting:
  • Item 1 : The committee requests that an announcement of the Strategic Plan's completion appear in a featured news item on the UPC home page or in the next CommunitE-letter. Policy Committee member final input should be received prior to that time. (Item complete)
  • Item 2: The committee requests that there be a presentation on COSMIC data for the next meeting. (Agenda Item)
  • Item 3: Chair, Businger, will work with Unidata staff Miller and Ramamurthy to (from the Users Committee Action Item 14): "develop a short survey to explore the Unidata community's interest in receiving COSMIC data in real-time using the LDM. The Users Committee will have an opportunity to review the survey prior to its distribution to the community." [The survey has been distributed to "dot edu" members of the Unidata community.] (Survey completed, Agenda Item)
    

8:45 Director's Report (Ramamurthy)

• Budget Report (Mitchell)

9:45-10:15 Data Flow/Case Studies (Weber, Ramamurthy) (Tab 27)

• Data Flow: quick help guide
• Next Generation Case Studies*

10:15 Break

10:30 Users Committee Report (Lackmann)

10:45 Agency Reports

• NSF (Jacobs)
• National Weather Service (Spayd)
• NASA (de La Beaujardiere)

12:00: Lunch in cafeteria

1:00 Unidata and Climate Data Services* (Tab 28)

What is needed, what is missing, how can Unidata facilitate,
and related items, such as Unidata's contribution to facilitating
IPCC AR5 Data Services

1:45 COSMIC Discussion

• Presentation by Chris Rocken, COSMIC
• Discussion of the survey
• Unidata's role in COSMIC data distribution and analysis/visualization of the data

2:45 Break

3:00 Where should Unidata be in 2013?*

4:30 Developing metrics to measure progress on the Strategic Plan's goals* (Tab 29, 30)

5:15 Adjourn for dinner at Q's

Address: Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St, Boulder, Colorado 80302, 303 442 4880

Tuesday, October 30

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 NSF Facilities Users Workshop: How can Unidata Help with cyberinfrastructure for the field project community?* (Ramamurthy, Wakimoto)

10:00 Break

10:15 Next Steps in Proposal Development (Ramamurthy) (Tab 31)

11:30 Wrap up

12:00 Adjourn

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

*Indicates discussion feeds proposal development