OntologySummit Theme: Community Brainstorm Session - Thu 2015-11-12

Session Chair: MichaelGruninger (IAOA; U of Toronto)

Topic: Brainstorm Session on the OntologySummit2016 Theme: Community Input & Planning II

Conference Call Details

Date: Thursday, 12-Nov-2015
Start Time: 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST / 6:30pm CET / 5:30pm GMT / 1730 UTC
- ref: World Clock
Expected Call Duration: ~1.5 hours

In-session chat-room url: http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/summit_20151112
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Brainstorm Session on the OntologySummit2016 Theme: Community Input & Planning

Session Format: this is a virtual session conducted over an augmented conference call

- Objective: Identify a short list of themes from which the Ontology Summit 2016 Organizing Committee will make the final selection.

2. Open discussion: explore the theme(s) and topics that the community would want to see covered in OntologySummit2016 - ALL (60 min.) ...

3 Identifying volunteers/champions and invite them to join us in the organizing committee

4. Next Steps (10 min.)
- Creation of Organizing Committee
- Schedule the Pre-Launch session (early December?) at which we discuss the structure of Ontology Summit 2015