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UpperOntologySummit - Organizing Committee Conference Call 2006-01-19

Call Details

  • Date: Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006
  • Start Time: 12:30 PM PST / 3:30 PM EST / 20:30 UTC (World Clock)
  • Expected Call Duration: 1.5 hour
  • Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)
  • Participant Access Code: "686564#"

Attendees

  • Expecting:

Agenda (items to be discussed) Ideas

  • ...(please add suggested items here)...
  • who will be the co-organizers (co-sponsors)
  • how many people will be presenting (must-haves vs. good-to-have; ... constraints)
  • PPY: short, medium and long term objectives
  • PPY: our approach: "confined and focused" vs. "broad and inclusive"
  • PPY: how do we involve all these different people?
  • Pat & Peter: funding and fundraising
  • Leo: date / how many days/sessions of the UOS event; can it be moved to 2006.03.14 or 15?

Agenda & Proceedings

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda

  • Leo Obrst took the chair and welcomed everyone.

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes

3) Roll-call of participants - see above

4) Urgent matters to be attended to

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

6) Follow-up from previous meetings

  • write-up of the event ("one paragraph" summary)
  • engaging the panelists - sending them the invitations and follow-up phone conversation
    • Steve to send letter
      • ask panelists to respond to Steve and one of us will follow-up
      • the follow-up phone call from Pat will be made after they confirm

7) Status review and ongoing discussions

  • locking-in the date and number of sessions (ref. Leo's thread: http://interop.cim3.net/forum/uos-org/2006-01/msg00011.html)
    • Tue 2006.01.14 pm & Wed 2006.01.15 whole day, with the 'main' panel on 2006.01.15 pm. -- this is confirmed and adopted
      • Dagobert cannot be availabel 3/14
    • also mentioned the Interoperability week plenary on 3/14 morning that everyone is invited to
    • The official (announced) UOS Panel Meeting is 3/15pm; the other two workshop sessions (3/14pm & 3/15am) will be characterized as "planning and preparatory meeting"
    • panelists & key particpants will be invited the 3/14 pm meeting - Leo Obrst will chair this meeting
    • panelists, key particpants, co-organizers and sponsors will be invited to the 3/15am meeting and that meeting will focus on users and funding - Brand Niemann will chair this meeting
      • the meetings will be open to all, as observers (which the chair will announced) so that we can focus on the goals
  • Naming the meetings:
    • 3/14pm - Upper Ontology Summit Joint Communique Preparation Meeting - for the UO custodians to come up with an commitment to work together to develop a common subset UO
    • 3/15am - UO Application Dialog - a dialog to explore potential exploitation of UO by business, government and other stakeholders
    • 3/15pm - Upper Ontology Summit
    • Chairs to writeup a brief description
    • Dagobert: remember to plan on remote access, recording, note taker

8) New Issues

  • Brand Niemann suggests we have a report as a deliverable from this meeting to be (among others) presented to FOIS Conference in Baltimore, MD Nov. 2006, also 5th International Semantic Web conference

9) Action Items

  • Pat to send all panelists' e-mail address to the [uos-org] list for Steve (note missing ones)
  • Steve will tweak the invitation letter and send them out to all panelists

10) Next meeting date and adjournment

  • next call will be on Thu 2006.01.19 starting at 12:30 pm PST / 3:30pm EST (shortly after the Ontolog session, which should end around 11:45pm PST / 2:45pm EST)
  • call adjourned 1:57 pm PST / 4:57 pm EST

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minutes captured in real time on this wiki by Peter P. Yim / 2006.01.19-2:00pm PST