UpperOntologySummit - Organizing Committee Conference Call 2006-01-19     (1)

Call Details     (1A)

• Date: Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006     (1A1)
• Start Time: 12:30 PM PST / 3:30 PM EST / 20:30 UTC (World Clock)     (1A2)
• Expected Call Duration: 1.5 hour     (1A3)
• Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)     (1A4)
• Participant Access Code: "686564#"     (1A5)

Attendees     (1B)

• Attended:     (1B1)
  • Peter P. Yim     (1B1A)
  • Steve Ray     (1B1B)
  • Dagobert Soergel     (1B1C)
  • Leo Obrst (will chair this call)     (1B1D)
  • Brand Niemann     (1B1E)
  • Pat Cassidy     (1B1F)

• Expecting:     (1B2)

• Regrets:     (1B3)
  • Kurt Conrad     (1B3A)

Agenda (items to be discussed) Ideas     (1C)

• ...(please add suggested items here)...     (1C1)
• who will be the co-organizers (co-sponsors)     (1C2)
• how many people will be presenting (must-haves vs. good-to-have; ... constraints)     (1C3)
• PPY: short, medium and long term objectives     (1C4)
• PPY: our approach: "confined and focused" vs. "broad and inclusive"     (1C5)
• PPY: how do we involve all these different people?     (1C6)
• Pat & Peter: funding and fundraising     (1C7)
• Leo: date / how many days/sessions of the UOS event; can it be moved to 2006.03.14 or 15?     (1C8)

Agenda & Proceedings     (1E)

• Leo Obrst took the chair and welcomed everyone.     (1E2)

• Peter P. Yim volunteered to take minutes     (1E4)

• write-up of the event ("one paragraph" summary)     (1E9)

• engaging the panelists - sending them the invitations and follow-up phone conversation     (1E10)
  • Steve to send letter     (1E10A)
    • ask panelists to respond to Steve and one of us will follow-up     (1E10A1)
    • the follow-up phone call from Pat will be made after they confirm     (1E10A2)

• locking-in the date and number of sessions (ref. Leo's thread: http://interop.cim3.net/forum/uos-org/2006-01/msg00011.html)     (1E12)
  • Tue 2006.01.14 pm & Wed 2006.01.15 whole day, with the 'main' panel on 2006.01.15 pm. -- this is confirmed and adopted     (1E12A)
    • Dagobert cannot be availabel 3/14     (1E12A1)
  • also mentioned the Interoperability week plenary on 3/14 morning that everyone is invited to     (1E12B)
  • The official (announced) UOS Panel Meeting is 3/15pm; the other two workshop sessions (3/14pm & 3/15am) will be characterized as "planning and preparatory meeting"     (1E12C)
  • panelists & key particpants will be invited the 3/14 pm meeting - Leo Obrst will chair this meeting     (1E12D)
  • panelists, key particpants, co-organizers and sponsors will be invited to the 3/15am meeting and that meeting will focus on users and funding - Brand Niemann will chair this meeting     (1E12E)
    • the meetings will be open to all, as observers (which the chair will announced) so that we can focus on the goals     (1E12E1)
• Naming the meetings:     (1E13)
  • 3/14pm - Upper Ontology Summit Joint Communique Preparation Meeting - for the UO custodians to come up with an commitment to work together to develop a common subset UO     (1E13A)
  • 3/15am - UO Application Dialog - a dialog to explore potential exploitation of UO by business, government and other stakeholders     (1E13B)
  • 3/15pm - Upper Ontology Summit     (1E13C)
  • Chairs to writeup a brief description     (1E13D)
  • Dagobert: remember to plan on remote access, recording, note taker     (1E13E)

• candidate particpants (various groups)     (1E14)
  • see additions & work-in-progress under: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit#nidIO7     (1E14A)
• who will be the co-organizers (co-sponsors)     (1E15)

• 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     (1E17)

• Pat to send all panelists' e-mail address to the [uos-org] list for Steve (note missing ones)     (1E19)
• Steve will tweak the invitation letter and send them out to all panelists     (1E20)

• next call will be on Thu 2006.01.19 starting at 12:30 pm PST / 3:30pm EST (shortly after the Ontolog session, which should end around 11:45pm PST / 2:45pm EST)     (1E22)

• call adjourned 1:57 pm PST / 4:57 pm EST     (1E23)