OntologySummit2008: Organizing Committee Conference Call - Monday 12-May-2008     (1)

• This is the 11th conference call of the OntologySummit2008 organizing committee. To be held Monday, May 12, 2008, start time: 12:30am PDT / 3:30pm EDT. 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_05_12     (1B)

Conference Call Details     (1C)

• Date: Monday, May 12, 2008     (1C1)
• Start Time: 12:30am PDT / 3:30pm EDT / 19:30 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)

Attendees:     (1D)

• Attended:     (1D1)
  • PeterYim     (1D1A)
  • BarrySmith     (1D1B)
  • SteveRay     (1D1C)

• Expecting:     (1D2)
  • MarkMusen     (1D2A)

• Regrets:     (1D3)
  • LeoObrst     (1D3A)
  • MichelleRaymond     (1D3B)

Agenda Ideas     (1E)

• Postmortem of the entire OntologySummit2008 proceedings     (1E1)
• do a postmortem on the summit F2F workshop,     (1E2)
• talk about the communique, the (clean-up) update and possibly brainstorm on next year's process improvement, and     (1E3)
• touch on the message we will be sending to the Advisors, ref. getting their endorsements (opt-out?) to the communique too.     (1E4)
• MichelleRaymond: moving forward     (1E5)
• submission of a writeup on OntologySummit2008 & OntologySummit2008_Communique to the "Applied" Ontology Journal     (1E6)
• any other business ... this should be the last meeting of the     (1E7)

... (please post your agenda ideas here; identify yourself for follow-up purposes)     (1E8)

Agenda & Proceedings     (1G)

• SteveRay took the chair and welcomed everyone     (1G2)

• PeterYim volunteered to take minutes of the meeting     (1G3)

• review and adopt agenda     (1G4)

• see above     (1G6)

• Discussions:     (1G8)

• Postmortem of the entire OntologySummit2008 proceedings     (1G9)
  • Barry: great success this year - especially when so many important people were involved     (1G9A)
  • Steve: expliciting assigning champions was an improvement - we should do this again     (1G9B)
    • we did get quality input through the online discourse - the email traffic was great     (1G9B1)
  • Peter: we did not do a survey this year, but did do 4 virtual panels -- they were both good     (1G9C)
  • Steve: people still about the F2F being NOT a regular conference, but rather the culmination of 3 months' activities     (1G9D)
    • corrective action - send a clarification again, as a F2F registration response     (1G9D1)

• do a postmortem on the summit F2F workshop     (1G10)
  • see what the OOR said - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_05_09#nid1H7W     (1G10A)

• do a postmortem on the OntologySummit2008_Communique     (1G11)
  • talk about the (clean-up) update of the communique and possibly brainstorm on next year's process improvement     (1G11A)

• Outstanding:     (1G12)
  • Posting pictures - Peter     (1G12A)
  • Audio recording - Steve     (1G12B)
  • touch on the message we will be sending to the Advisors, ref. getting their endorsements (opt-out?) to the communique too     (1G12C)
  • submission of a writeup on OntologySummit2008 & OntologySummit2008_Communique to the "Applied" Ontology Journal     (1G12D)

• Moving forward     (1G13)

• Any other business ...     (1G14)

• Topic for next year's summit theme     (1G16)
  • Barry: devote that to "The Uses of Ontologies"     (1G16A)
    • what do users need     (1G16A1)
    • training - improve the way we train ontologists, and how we can train more ontologists     (1G16A2)
      • training (NCOR just finished one and will be doing something again in the Summer of 2009)     (1G16A2A)
      • Philosophers are actually good candidates     (1G16A2B)

• This should be the last of the OntologySummit2008 organizing committee meetings. We take the opportunity to thank all organizing committee members for their devotion and contribution to this year's Ontology Summit, and look forward to working together again in the future, in whatever capacity, as well to Ontology Summit 2009.     (1G20)

• Call adjourned at: _____ pm PDT     (1G21)

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notes taken by: [[PeterYim]] / 2008.05.12-_____pm PDT
All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.