UpperOntologySummit - Organizing Committee Conference Call 2006-01-26

Agenda & Proceedings

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda

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

responses from panelists to our invitation
- got responses from: Aldo, Matthew, Barry, Guarino, ... (Adam)
  - Pat: talked to Matthew, he need permission, he'll get back to Pat
  - Pat: have not been able to reach Aldo yet
  - Leo: Guarino is still awaiting our response for travel funding

7) Status review and ongoing discussions

candidate particpants (various groups)
- see additions & work-in-progress under: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit#nidIO7

Funding requirements, sources and approach
- candidate Mark Greaves of Vulcan - Leo Obrst to approach him
  - Brand: Mark is also coming to the 4th Semantic Technology for eGov Conference at Mitre (Feb. 9~10, 2006)
- candidate Christy Welty of IBM - Leo Obrst to approach him
- candidate George Strawn of NSF - Brand / Peter to approach him to get NSF to be a co-organizer/sponsor, to pay for the travel and possibly have the speakers do a session at NSF too
- Brand Niemann: consider a joint proposal to NSF for funding the UO common subset, and possibly get EU funding too (cast this as a joint US-EU effort)
  - Brand / Leo: the approach could be:
    - (i) ask people we are inviting if they are willing to do a joint proposal for a program
    - (ii) go to George Strawn to ask if they are willing to support the idea
    - (iii) arrange a presentation of that joint proposal to NSF (say, on morning of Mar. 14, 2006)
- Brand Niemann: candidate Tony Stanco - Brand to approach him about connecting to angel funders

discussion space for prep work
- setting up a mailing list with org-committee, panelists & key participants as subscriber - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2005_12_08#nidIHW
- updating / posting work to the wiki

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
- who will champion this?

8) New Issues

Peter brought up the potential of doing a joint phone session with UN/CEFACT (who is having their meeting in Vancouver that very same week) during late 3/15 morning of the UO Applications Dialog session
- Pat feels that we should keep focus on potential "immediate users" (which Brand has a few in the eGov constituency). Therefore, we'll just pass on the above idea for now.

will talk about when we will be inviting the key participants (outside of the panelists) next week

9) Action Items

Leo and Brand - one paragraph write-ups for each of the prep sessions, (see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2006_01_19#nidJEJ)
- Leo: 3/14pm - Upper Ontology Summit Joint Communique Preparation Meeting, and
- Brand: 3/15am - UO Application Dialog
Pat to call all the panelists (even if they have not responded)
- if panelists are willing to do te joint proposal, Pat will add language to the "one paragraph summary" on UOS
Brand to approach NSF / George Strawn in parallel
Leo to approach Mark Greaves and Chris Welty ref. involvement, sponsorship and potentially funding for travel money
Peter to start a mailing list for prep work by the panelists / key participants

10) Next meeting date and adjournment

next call will be on Thu 2006.02.02 starting at 12:30 pm PST / 3:30pm EST (right after the Ontolog Nicola Guarino speaker session, which should end at 12:25pm PST / 3:25pm EST)

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minutes captured in real time on this wiki by Peter P. Yim / 2006.01.26-2:12pm PST