Unidata Policy Committee Agenda

15-16 October 1998
NSF Headquarters, Room 730, Arlington, Virginia

Thursday, 15 October

2:30 pm Afternoon Snack

3:00 pm Administrative Matters (Chair, Merrill)

Agenda and Summary Reviews

• Approve agenda
• Approve summary of 18-19 May 1998 meeting
• Review status of action items from last meeting
• Select/verify next meeting dates

3:30 Status Reports

• UPC Report (Fulker)
• Budget Report (Graham)

5:00 Committee Reports

• User's Committee Report (Moody)

5:30 Agency Reports

• NOAA Report (Glackin) - Introduction
• NASA Report (Serafino) - Introduction

6:00 Catered Dinner

7:00 Agency Reports (continued)

• NSF Report (Jacobs) - Including discussion of KDI ("The Good, the Bad, the Ugly")

8:00 Adjourn for the night.

Friday 16 October

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Unidata's Response to NSF (Fulker)

Including discussions of Unidata's budget breakdowns

10:00 - 10:15 Break

10:15 - 10:45 Platform Support Issues (Fulker, Moody)

Users Committee Resolution 1:
The Unidata Users Committee endorses the following changes in Unidata's platform support:
A. Immediately sunset support for ULTRIX and SunOS 4.x.
B. Add support for Red Hat Linux and Solaris for Intel (x86).
C. Sunset support for OS/2 on July 31, 1999.

10:45 - 12:00 Access to Retrospective Data (Fulker, Moody)

Users Committee Resolution 2:
In agreement with the recommendation by the NSF review panel, the Users Committee recommends that the Unidata Policy Committee explore Unidata collaboration with other agencies and organizations (e.g., NCAR SCD) to facilitate access to archived meteorological data sets in a format compatible with Unidata-supported software.

12:00 - 1:30 Luncheon Break

1:30 Implications of GEMPAK's Uncertain Future (Fulker)

2:30 Unidata's Membership Policy (Fulker)

3:00 - 3:15 Break

3:15 - 4:15 Communications Structures (Bates, Domenico)

Including discussion on Unidata to community and intracommunity communications.

4:15 Unfinished Business

5:00 END

 

Prepared by J. Hansen

Questions or comments can be sent to <jhansen@unidata.ucar.edu>.