Ontology Summit 2008 Conference Call - Thu 2008-04-24

This is a final Ontology Summit 2008 workshop preparation and sync-up (among all organizers and participants.)

Conference Call Details

Date: Thursday, April 24, 2008
Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 17:30 UTC
- ref: World Clock
Expected Call Duration: 1.0~1.5 hours
Dial-in Number:
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Attendees

Attended:
- Peter P. Yim
- Michael Grüninger
- Fabian Neuhaus
- Michelle Raymond
- Mike Dean
- Evan Wallace (will miss middle portion of call due to a meeting conflict)
- Ken Baclawski
- Bruce Bargmeyer
- Mark Musen
- Ravi Sharma
- Frank Olken
- Mala Mehrotra
- Elisa Kendall
- Frank Alvidrez

Expecting:

... (please insert your name above or RSVP by e-mailing <peter.yim@cim3.com> offline)

Regrets:

Agenda Ideas

(please insert your ideas below)

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Resources

Agenda & Proceedings

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda

Michelle Raymond took the chair and welcomed everyone.

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes

Peter P. Yim volunteered

3) Roll-call of participants

see above

4) Announcement:

Summit face-to-face related announcements:
- as of last Monday, there are about 70 people registered for on-site; and 11 for remote participation (as of this morning)
- we'll be in Building 101 (Administration Building) using the NIST "employee lounge"
  - set aside half-an-hour to get pass the gate check, badging and getting to the building
- there will be "guest wireless access" which are not within the NIST firewalls

other announcements:
- we will not be "hosting" coffee and refreshments, participants can buy their coffee etc. from the cafeteria, which is right across from the room

5) Q&A, discussion & final sync-up:

Agenda related:
- see upddated agenda: OntologySummit2008/FaceToFaceAgenda
- review "remarks from the chair(s)" and coordinate flow of the entire 2-days
- Peter: all chairs requested to add, under their session: (a) how the session time is to be utilized, (b) provide an abstract of the session, and (c) make all needed resources (slides, references, etc.) clickable there.
- Peter: please send me all presentation slides by Fri 2008.04.25 9:00pm PDT (as I will be traveling very early Saturday morning, and have no assurance on my ability to access the Internet.) Past that, please email to Michelle Raymond, with a copy to Peter P. Yim
  - raw slides parked at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologySummit2008/2008-04-2829_F2F-workshop/wip/

Logistics related:
- Fabian explained the process about getting registered at the gate and then parking
- Fabian will help put up a map to NIST, and a campus map (indicated where our meeting would be)
- registered on-site people should have received a confirmation email from conf-at-nist.gov ... there is a number to call, if there are questions: (+1) 301.975.2776
- those staying at the hotel should make arrangements for the hotel to shuttle them to the NIST campus
- there is a shuttle between the Shady Grove Metro station and the Gaithersburg NIST campus (leaving at 15-min & 45-min. points at each hour) - please refer to details at the NIST-directions
- Ken just put up a page to help coordinate car-pooling - see: OntologySummit2008/Carpool
  - Ravi offered to provide rides (he'll be at German town)

Content-related:

Michelle: ref. agenda discussion

Demo-related

Ken: expecting 6~7 demos

Communique-related

Mark: have two of the four inputs, awaiting the other two

Others:

6) Next meeting date and adjourn

see you all at the Ontology Summit 2008 face-to-face workshop - 2008.04.28~29 NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.

this call session adjourned 11:57 am PDT

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