UpperOntologySummit - Organizing Committee Conference Call 2006-01-19

Call Details

• Date: Thursday, Jan. 19, 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: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)
• Participant Access Code: "686564#"

Attendees

• Attended:
  • Peter P. Yim
  • Steve Ray
  • Dagobert Soergel
  • Leo Obrst (will chair this call)
  • Brand Niemann
  • Pat Cassidy

• Expecting:

• Regrets:
  • Kurt Conrad

Agenda (items to be discussed) Ideas

• ...(please add suggested items here)...
• who will be the co-organizers (co-sponsors)
• how many people will be presenting (must-haves vs. good-to-have; ... constraints)
• 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
• Leo: date / how many days/sessions of the UOS event; can it be moved to 2006.03.14 or 15?

Agenda & Proceedings

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda

• Leo Obrst took the chair and welcomed everyone.

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes

• Peter P. Yim volunteered 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

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

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

7) Status review and ongoing discussions

• locking-in the date and number of sessions (ref. Leo's thread: http://interop.cim3.net/forum/uos-org/2006-01/msg00011.html)
  • 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
    • Dagobert cannot be availabel 3/14
  • also mentioned the Interoperability week plenary on 3/14 morning that everyone is invited to
  • 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"
  • panelists & key particpants will be invited the 3/14 pm meeting - Leo Obrst will chair this meeting
  • 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
    • the meetings will be open to all, as observers (which the chair will announced) so that we can focus on the goals
• Naming the meetings:
  • 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
  • 3/15am - UO Application Dialog - a dialog to explore potential exploitation of UO by business, government and other stakeholders
  • 3/15pm - Upper Ontology Summit
  • Chairs to writeup a brief description
  • Dagobert: remember to plan on remote access, recording, note taker

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

8) New Issues

• 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

9) Action Items

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

10) Next meeting date and adjournment

• 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)

• call adjourned 1:57 pm PST / 4:57 pm EST

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minutes captured in real time on this wiki by Peter P. Yim / 2006.01.19-2:00pm PST