ONTOLOG Community & Project Planning Worskhop 2005

• Session Date: Thu 2005.03.03
• Facilitator: Kurt Conrad
• First session page: ConferenceCall_2005_03_03

Resources

• Last Year's Planning Workshop Results - see: OntologPlanning_2004

Participant Input

• review / update Community Charter (--PeterYim / 2005.02.28)
  • Ref: proposed updated charter - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2005-02/msg00020.html

• adopt a definition for Formal & Informal Ontologies
  • Ref: thread initiated by Duane Nickull, and responses from Peter P. Yim & Leo Obrst - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2005-03/msg00005.html

Session Agenda & Proceeding

• Work Session 2005.04.14 - Kurt Conrad, Bob Smith & Peter P. Yim
  • Kurt: our problem is that community members engage at levels they choose, planning has nothing to do with traction
  • Peter: we've got CoP activities (casual) and Project Activities (disciplined); if the latter is funded, then we can better reinforce the discipline
  • Kurt-Bob-Peter: 6 buckets
    • CoP activities
    • experimental/evangelistic projects
    • discplined projects
    • project infrastructure
    • CoP infrastructure
    • Other
  • Kurt's table: Issue or Activities - Source - Buckets(6) - Priority - Dependencies - Resources - Level of Interest
    • Priority & Level of Interest: 1 ~ 5, 5 being high
    • Resources: in terms of getting enough resources to pull the activity off
  • Action Items
    • Have an ontology of project planning. Who we are, opportunities, constraints   
    • Sustainability of CoP, as a whole   
    • Continue technology transfer, help people "sell" ontology approach   
    • extend SUMO (from Adam's: Do real work that gets used by somebody, especially UBL focus, concrete results   )
      • continue from here - more 'real work' going on yet
    • develop a robust semantic policy decision making framework
    • validating planning team's ranking through a survey
  • Next work Session 2005.05.05 right after the regular call - Kurt Conrad, Bob Smith, Peter P. Yim & Leo Obrst

• Work Session 2005.06.09 - Kurt Conrad, Bob Smith & Peter P. Yim
  • Current Priorities
    • Meeting time
      • NIST: Monday, Wednesday, Friday
      • Conflicts w/ W3C Semantic Web Best Practices meeting
      • What are the competing organizations and their meeting times?
      • Drives importance of an updated membership survey. Who would join us if we changed our time? Who would drop out if we change the time? Iterate 3-4x.
      • Not an actionable issue, at this time.
    • Metrics (how many show depending on agenda)
    • Governance
      • Annual budget target for sustained operations (financial and non-financial resources)
      • Assigned roles and responsibilities
      • Structures to support "commercial" activities and committments
    • Team Roster
      • Current XML-based roster is too labor intensive to continue
      • Need alternative approach
  • Resourcing considerations
    • Colab engages individuals as part of job duties (Federal or contractor)
    • Ontolog primarily resourced by non-funded labor (tend to see participation drop off as commercial activities increase)
  • Meeting schedule
    • Alternative weeks vs non-event days: Try every two weeks until a better option presents itself