Users Committee Meeting Agenda
20 June 1997
Boulder, Colorado

Friday, 20 June 1997

8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast

Welcome
Set next meeting date
Review Action Items from March 13-14, 1997 Meeting

8:30-10:15 Workshop Planning

-Visit assigned rooms and computer set up at Foothills Lab
-Review list of group leader assignments and group participant assignments
-Review timing and group room changes
-Review speaker topics and speaker presentation materials on web
-Review lab session materials on web
-Discuss requirements for note taking and web page development during all sessions
-Review meal arrangements and evening activities
-Coordinate transportation needs
-Review times that various speakers will be in attendance
-Review responsibilities of group spokespeople (Usercomm members)
-Review responsibility for AMS article writing
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10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-11:30 Workshop Planning

11:30-1:00 Lunch

1:00--3:15 Workshop Planning

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3:15-3:45 - Director's Report - (Fulker will not be present) Yoksas will cover the platform independence discussion that led to two resolutions* by the Unidata Policy Committee

3:45-4:15 - Discussion

- resolutions* and planning

• Resolution 1:
  In view of Policy Committee Resolutions 97.1 and 97.2, the Users Committee Resolution to the UPC from its March 1997 meeting, and the UPC conclusion that developing an effective plan responding to the Policy Committee resolution 97.1 is not feasible, the Policy Committee endorses the principles expressed in Dave Fulker's presentation, "Toward Java and Platform Independence," namely:

  The Unidata Program's long-term goal is platform independence
  Target architecture is the Java virtual machine
  The language of choice for new implementation is Java
  

  The Unidata Program Center's roles are three:

  • Providing data management software
  • Entraining outside developers of user-level applications
  • Providing software development infrastructure.

• Resolution 2:
  The Policy Committee requests the UPC develop a transition plan from OS/2 and UNIX to a system involving a Java-based client-server implementation. The transition should include the following steps:
  • Development of a Java-based "image viewer" client that would serve as the GUI;
  • Adaptation of OS/2 and UNIX applications to function as servers to the image-viewer client.

  Java Development Meeting

  Unidata's Path to Platform Independence by Dave Fulker

4:15-4:45 PolComm Report - Ramamurthy

4:45-5:00 - 4km GOES 8/9 data to Unidata sites

emails

Impacts of Goes imagery resolution increase on IDD/LDM

Unidata Status Reports

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