Agenda

Unidata Policy Committee

4-5 October 2001
UPC Conference Room, Boulder, Colorado

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Administrative Matters (Merrill)

• Adopt agenda
• Welcome new members
• Approve summary of February 2001 meeting
• Review status of action items from last meeting
• Set next meeting dates.

9:00 Status Reports

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

10:00 Break

10:15 Committee Reports

• Users Committee/Users Committee Survey (Clark)

11:00 Agency Reports

• UCAR Board of Trustees (Thomson)
• NSF (Jacobs)

12:00 Lunch

1:15 Strategic Planning (Fulker)

• Revised Mission Statement Discussion
• Goals and Objectives Review

2:00

Strategy One: Community Building

2:45 Break

3:00

Strategy Two: Providing Better Tools for Data Use and Management

3:45

Strategy Three: Fostering and Creation of Easily Accessible Data Collections (Access Methodologies)

4:30

Strategy Four: Accessing New Data Types and Sources

5:15 Break

6:30 Working Dinner

Friday, 5 February 2001

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:15 Review Thursday's Discussions

8:45

• Unaddressed Concerns
• Relative Priorities
• Adoption of Strategic Plan

10:00 Break

• Next Steps: including the Unidata 5-year Proposal process

11:30 Wrap-up

12:00 END