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OntologySummit2008: Organizing Committee Conference Call - Thursday 17-Mar-2008

  • This is the 5th conference call of the Ontology Summit 2008 organizing committee. The session is expected to be a ~1 Hour conference call.

Conference Call Details

  • Date: Thursday, March 17, 2008
  • Start Time: 12:30am PDT / 3:30pm EDT / 19:30 UTC
  • Expected Call Duration: ~ 1.0 Hour
  • Dial-in Number:
    • from US: +1-605-475-8590 (South Dakota, USA)
      • Conference ID: "5823120#"
    • Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120
  • Shared-screen support (VNC session), if applicable, will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/
    • view-only password: "ontolog"

Attendees

  • Regrets:

Agenda Ideas

  • review status of "Advisory Committee" nominations and invitations
  • status review and action plans for the online discourse
  • status review on the F2F-workshop planning and preparation - review agenda
  • preparation status for the 3 upcoming panel sessions - 3/27, 4/3 & 4/10
  • status review on how we are getting the word out
  • draft communique preparation status
... (please post your agenda ideas here; identify yourself for follow-up purposes)

Agenda & Proceedings

1. Meeting called to order:

  • Steve Ray took the chair and welcomed everyone
  • review and adopt agenda
  • note that we have a hard stop at 1:30pm PDT / 4:30pm EDT as the Content Committee will be having their weekly call then. Which mean we have to finish this call in 1 hour or less.

2. Roll Call:

3. Status / Discussion of developing issues:

  • Outstanding Issue Update: (from last call)
    • submit last year's communique to Applied Ontologies Journal [attn: Steve] - Steve contacted Michael Grüninger who will be working on it
      • question for Mark: when is the next AOJ issue out; do you have a deadline for the submission (to make it into the next issue)?
      • Steve will continue to communicate with Michael to get this out ASAP.
      • Michael mentioned that he is planning to have it ready by end of this week. (--ppy: from a conversation during the content committee meeting.)
  • Discussions:
  • reveiw status of "Advisory Committee" nominations and invitations
    • see latest update -
    • Status: http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2008-03/msg00042.html
    • list of confirmed Advisory Committee members - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008#nid199T
      • all invitations out, except for (f.2) & (f.3);
      • accepted - 34 (to be updated)
      • declined - 3 (to be updated)
    • Barry still working with contact in Japan, Steve's Korean invitation confirmed
    • we are now in a position take out the " ... developing" from the list of Advisors.
    • discussion: an 'event' for the Advisory Committee
      • Barry: we should create a "publicity oriented - announcement e-mail" of the Summit F2F, and ask all advisors to help circulate this to "their friends"
      • Barry: any chance of webcasting the F2F workshop? - Steve will find out
      • extend invitations to the overseas advisors to come join us at the F2F workshop
      • Barry will take care of this "interaction with Advisors"
  • status review online discourse
    • we need to step up the level of activities here
    • move the summary pages up ... under the Ontology Summit 2008: "What's New"
    • Michelle to prompt the champions to put out strawman positions and get the various main topic threads going
    • Content Committee will start doing weekly calls starting today, on Mondays, right after this organizing committee call
  • status review on how we are getting the word out
    • Steve: will get the NIST public affairs office to continue to help us with getting the word out
      • Steve: will update everyone at the next call

5. New Issues:

6. Any Other Business:

7. Action items:

8. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:

  • Call adjourned at: 1:32 pm PDT

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2008.03.17-1:32pm PDT

All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.



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