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UpperOntologySummit - Organizing Committee Conference Call 2006-01-26

Call Details

  • Date: Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006
  • Start Time: 12:30 PM PST / 3:30 PM EST / 20:30 UTC (World Clock)
  • Expected Call Duration: 1.5 hour
  • Dial-in Number: 1-641-696-6600 (Iowa)
  • Participant Access Code: "686564#"

Attendees

  • Expecting:

Agenda (items to be discussed) Ideas

  • ...(please add suggested items here)...
  • who will be the co-organizers (co-sponsors)
  • PPY: short, medium and long term objectives
  • PPY: our approach: "confined and focused" vs. "broad and inclusive"
  • PPY: how do we involve all these different people?
  • Pat & Peter: funding and fundraising
  • PPY: getting buy-ins from the global standards community

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

  • who will be the co-organizers (co-sponsors)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • call adjourned 2:05 pm PST / 5:05 pm EST

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