Agenda

Unidata Policy Committee

Monday, 20 May 2002

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Administrative Matters (Merrill)

• Adopt agenda
• Approve summary of February 2002 meeting
• Review status of action items from last meeting:
  • 1.A presentation by Unidata and DLESE policy committee representatives to the National Science
    Foundation detailing plans for coordinating their respective efforts to support their communities. Margaret Leinen, Mike Mayhew, Cliff Jacobs, Bernard Grant and others to be the target audience.
  • .Reflecting concern that only 28% of the Users Committee survey respondents knew of the MetApps effort at the UPC, an article for the current BAMS series should be submitted.
  • Martha Maiden (NASA rep) working together with Ben Domenico will initiate discussions on how we can more effectively represent our two communities
  • A discussion of the WRF model's transition to operational mode will be an agenda item at the
    mid-March Users Committee meeting.
  • The Program Center will have a working draft of the 2008 proposal for the next Policy Committee
    meeting.
• Set next meeting dates. Next meeting scheduled for:
  • 14-15 October 2002, Arlington, Virginia
  • Set winter 2003 meeting date (10-11 February 2003?)
• Status of Unidata Director Search (Fellows)

9:00 Director's Report

• Director's Report (Domenico)
• UPC Budget Report (Graham)

10:00 Break

10:15 Committee Reports

• Users Committee (Clark)
• MetApps (Murphy)
• T3F, THREDDS Technical Task Force (Edmon)

11:15 Agency Reports

• NSF (Jacobs)
• NCDC (Leduc)

12:00 Lunch

1:00 5-year Funding Proposal

Issues to discuss:

• Is the overall structure right?
• Discussion of Main Components
• Do we need additional sections from the Strategic Plan
• Users Survey and its relevance to the proposal (Clark)
• Value/importance of a UCAR-wide commitment to coordination in key strategic areas (see the coordination matrix)
• Relationship to other proposals
  • LEAD
  • KEG
  • DLESE data access
  • Unidata Equipment Awards
  • THREDDS and possible follow on

3:00 Break

3:15 5-year Funding Proposal (continued)

• Getting input from the general community
  • How to go about it?
  • How to document it?

4:00 UCAR/NCAR Coordinated Planning

• How it relates to the proposal
• Unidata is not alone in these endeavors

5:00 Break

6:30 Working Dinner

Tuesday, 21 May 2002

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Digital Library Collaborations

DLESE (Marlino)

NSDL (Fulker)

Issues:

• Relationship among NSDL, DLESE, THREDDS/Unidata?
• Can we devise a coordinated strategy that all can endorse?
• Should we?

10:00 Break

10:15 Followup Discussion on the Proposal

11:15 Discussion of UCAR/NCAR Involvement

Issues:

• What's the most productive mechanism for obtaining UCAR/NCAR participation?
• How about rotating attendances from UCAR?NCAR reps with specific, high-priority strategic coordination areas (see the coordination matrix) up for discussion?
• Which coordination area/group (or groups) should we target for the next meeting?

11:30 Wrap-up

12:00 END