Unidata Users Committee

Proposed Agenda - 9-10 November 2000

Thursday, 9 November

8:00-8:30 - Administrative Matters

• Continental Breakfast
• New Members
  • Rich Clark, Chair, Millersville University
  • Bill Fingerhut, Lyndon State College
  • Arlene Laing, University of South Florida
  • Tony Rockwood, Metropolitan State College
• Select next meeting date
• Review of Action Items from June 16, 2000 meeting
• Charlie Murphy, PolComm representative report

8:30-9:30 - Director's Report - Dave Fulker, Ben Domenico

• Visions of the Future - Fulker
  • Fulker Sabbatical
• THematic Realtime Environmental Data Distribution Servers (THREDDS) - Domenico

9:30-10:00 - WSR-88D Discussion - Miller, et al.

• Response to Actions 1-3
  • floater for NIDS products? (per PolComm) - Charlie Murphy

10:00-10:15 - Break

10:15-10:45 - Difax Issue/Action - discussion

• Action taken - Weber

10:45-11:45 - Miscellaneous and wrap up discussion of morning issues

• Collecting statistics from all Unidata sites (per PolComm)
• THREDDS, future directions
• Participation Policy
• WSR-88D Level II data
• NOAAPort distribution of Level III (NIDS-type) products
• Survey discussion, including UCAR survey

• demos
• collaboration
• UMADA
• use cases
• discussion

3:00 - Break

3:15-4:00 - MetApps - cont

4:00-5:00 - Workshop BAMS article coordination - Yarger, Rockwood, et al.

• Scribe Notes
• Shaping the Future Workshop

5:00 - Adjourn

5:45 - Dinner

Friday, 10 November 2000

8:00-8:15 - Continental Breakfast, Discussion

8:30-10:00 - Unidata Status Reports

• Case Studies - Weber
  • SuomiNet
• DODS - Davis
• External Liaison - Miller
• GEMPAK - Chiswell
• LDM- Rew, Wilson
• IDD - Kambic, Weber
• McIDAS - Yoksas
• Java Development - MetApps - Murray

10:00 - Break

10:15 - Noon - Future Directions Discussion