OntologySummit2008: Organizing Committee Conference Call - Thursday 25-Feb-2008     (1)

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

• URL for this page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2008_02_25     (1B)

Conference Call Details     (1C)

• Date: Thursday, February 25, 2008     (1C1)
• Start Time: 12:30pm PST / 3:30pm EST / 20:30 GMT/UTC     (1C2)
  • ref: World Clock     (1C2A)
• Expected Call Duration: ~ 1.0 Hour     (1C3)
• Dial-in Number:     (1C4)
  • from US: +1-605-475-8590 (South Dakota, USA)     (1C4A)
    • Conference ID: "5823120#"     (1C4A1)
  • Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120     (1C4B)

• Shared-screen support (VNC session), if applicable, will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/     (1C5)
  • view-only password: "ontolog"     (1C5A)

• RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated. (Regrets only)     (1C6)

Attendees     (1D)

• Attended:     (1D1)
  • Steve Ray     (1D1A)
  • Peter P. Yim     (1D1B)
  • Michelle Raymond     (1D1C)

• Expecting:     (1D2)
  • Mark Musen     (1D2A)

• Regrets:     (1D3)
  • Leo Obrst     (1D3A)
  • Barry Smith     (1D3B)

Agenda Ideas     (1E)

• status on the Thu 2008.02.28 joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Session     (1E1)
• reveiw status of "Advisory Committee" nominations and invitations     (1E2)
• status review online discourse     (1E3)
• status review on the F2F-workshop planning and preparation     (1E4)
• proposing candidates for co-editors of the Communique draft     (1E5)

... (please post your agenda ideas here; identify yourself for follow-up purposes)     (1E6)

Agenda & Proceedings     (1G)

• Steve Ray took the chair and welcomed everyone     (1G2)

• Peter P. Yim volunteered to take minutes of the meeting     (1G3)

• review and adopt agenda     (1G4)

• see above     (1G6)

• Outstanding Issue Update: (from last call)     (1G8)
  • submit last year's communique to Applied Ontologies Journal [attn: Steve]     (1G8A)

• Discussions:     (1G9)

• status on the Thu 2008.02.28 joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Session - ConferenceCall_2008_02_28     (1G10)

• reveiw status of "Advisory Committee" nominations and invitations     (1G11)
  • http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2008-02/msg00090.html#nid04     (1G11A)

• status review online discourse     (1G12)
  • we need to step up the level of activities here     (1G12A)
  • move the summary pages up ... under the Ontology Summit 2008: "What's New"     (1G12B)
  • Michelle to prompt the champions to put out strawman positions and get the various main topic threads going     (1G12C)

• status review on the F2F-workshop planning and preparation     (1G13)
  • Steve: url for the NIST Interoperability Week will be available real soon,     (1G13A)
    • and with that to the registration pages for each workshop, including ours.     (1G13A1)
  • 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.     (1G13B)
  • Steve: there will be no "plenary session" this year for Interoperability Week     (1G13C)
  • Steve: will get the NIST public affairs people to continue to help us with getting     (1G13D)

• proposing candidates for co-editors of the Communique draft     (1G14)
  • Michelle: suggest we have an outline for the communique     (1G14A)
  • communique should be short ... almost like a press release, and a message from this team to the rest of the world.     (1G14B)

• next Organizing Committee conference call - Mon 2008.03.03 - 1Hr. starting 12:30pm PST / 3:30pm EST     (1G19)
  • see details (closer to the time) at: OntologySummit2008/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2008_02_25/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2008_03_03     (1G19A)

• Call adjourned at: 1:38 pm PST     (1G20)