OntologySummit2008: Organizing Committee Conference Call - Thursday 25-Feb-2008

• This is the 2nd conference call of the Ontology Summit 2008 organizing committee. The session is expected to be a ~1 Hour conference call.

• URL for this page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2008_02_25

Conference Call Details

• Date: Thursday, February 25, 2008
• Start Time: 12:30pm PST / 3:30pm EST / 20:30 GMT/UTC
  • ref: World Clock
• 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"

• RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated. (Regrets only)

Attendees

• Attended:
  • Steve Ray
  • Peter P. Yim
  • Michelle Raymond

• Expecting:
  • Mark Musen

• Regrets:
  • Leo Obrst
  • Barry Smith

Agenda Ideas

• status on the Thu 2008.02.28 joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Session
• reveiw status of "Advisory Committee" nominations and invitations
• status review online discourse
• status review on the F2F-workshop planning and preparation
• proposing candidates for co-editors of the Communique draft

... (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

• Peter P. Yim volunteered to take minutes of the meeting

• review and adopt agenda

2. Roll Call:

• see above

3. Status / Discussion of developing issues:

• Outstanding Issue Update: (from last call)
  • submit last year's communique to Applied Ontologies Journal [attn: Steve]

• Discussions:

• status on the Thu 2008.02.28 joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Session - ConferenceCall_2008_02_28

• reveiw status of "Advisory Committee" nominations and invitations
  • http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2008-02/msg00090.html#nid04

• 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

• status review on the F2F-workshop planning and preparation
  • Steve: url for the NIST Interoperability Week will be available real soon,
    • and with that to the registration pages for each workshop, including ours.
  • Susan Turnbull will be hosting an Expedition Workshop on the third day of Interoperability Week (i.e. Apr-30) too; we'll try to invite our community to join her on that session as well.
  • Steve: there will be no "plenary session" this year for Interoperability Week
  • Steve: will get the NIST public affairs people to continue to help us with getting

• proposing candidates for co-editors of the Communique draft
  • Michelle: suggest we have an outline for the communique
  • communique should be short ... almost like a press release, and a message from this team to the rest of the world.

5. New Issues:

6. Any Other Business:

7. Action items:

8. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:

• next Organizing Committee conference call - Mon 2008.03.03 - 1Hr. starting 12:30pm PST / 3:30pm EST
  • see details (closer to the time) at: OntologySummit2008/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2008_02_25/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2008_03_03

• Call adjourned at: 1:38 pm PST

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2008.02.25-1:38 pm PST

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