[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2008-10-02

• There being no scheduled special event for today, this is expected to be a regular operations planning and review meeting for active members of the Ontolog community, if members of the community has items they put on the agenda. ... The meeting is open to all who are interested, RSVP (offline to peter.yim@cim3.com) appreciated.

• the meeting is subject to cancellation, one hour before start time, if we do not reach a minimum of 3 expected attendees, or if it is deemed that we don't have issues interesting enough to warrant taking up people's time for the call.

Conference Call Details

• Date: Thursday, Oct. 2, 2007
• Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 6:30pm BST / 7:30pm CEST / 17:30 UTC
  • ref: World Clock
• Expected Call Duration: ~1.0 hours
• Dial-in Number:
  • Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120
  • When calling in from a phone, use Conference ID: "5823120#"
  • from a US telephone (US): +1-605-475-8590 (South Dakota, USA)
  • from Europe, call:
    • Austria 0820-4000-1574
    • Belgium 070-35-9989
    • France 0826-100-277
    • Germany 01805-00-7649
    • Ireland 0818-270-034
    • Italy 0848-390-175
    • Netherlands 0870-001-932
    • Spain 0902-886-051
    • Switzerland 0848-560-195
    • UK 0870-738-0763
  • callers from other countries please dial into either one of the US or European numbers

• RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated.

• Shared-screen support (VNC session), if applicable, will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/
  • view-only password: "ontolog"

• This session, like all other Ontolog events, is open to the public. Information relating to this session is shared on this wiki page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_10_02

Attendees

• Attended:

• Expecting:
  • Peter P. Yim
  • Mike Bennett
  • Kurt Conrad

... (please insert your name above or RSVP by e-mailing <peter.yim@cim3.com> offline)

• Regrets:
  • Leo Obrst
  • Rex Brooks
  • Sebastian Schaffert
  • Doug Holmes

Agenda Ideas

(please insert your ideas below)

• ...

Agenda & Proceedings

Session was cancelled as we did not have the right people online to allow some coordination among the mini-series programs. ... Mike, Peter and Kurt did have a useful conversation, while they were online, though. =ppy/2008.10.02-10:54am PDT

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda

• ______ took the chair and welcomed everyone.

• ______ volunteered to take minutes

• review and adopt agenda

2) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

3) Roll-call of participants

• see above

• Welcome to new Ontolog community members

4) Urgent matter that needs immediate attention (before proceedings with the regular agenda)

5) Scheduled meetings & events review/preview:

• Postmortem of recent events
  • 25-Sep-2008 "Emerging Ontology Showcase" kick-off session - ConferenceCall_2008_09_25
    • impression:
    • what worked well:
    • what needs improvement:
    • what would we do differently in the future:
    • other comments:

• Scheduled Ontolog Events - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidW
  • 2008_10_16 - Thursday: "Emerging Ontology Showcase" panel session-2 - Co-chair: Ken Baclawski / Mike Bennett - Panelist: SvenVanPoucke (Wound Ontology) & Martin Hepp (Good Relations Ontology) - ConferenceCall_2008_10_16   
  • 2008_10_23 - Thursday: SemanticWiki mini-series Launch Event: "A Survey of the Landscape and State-of-Art in Semantic Wiki" - Co-chair: Sebastian Schaffert & Max Voelkel - ConferenceCall_2008_10_23    - need to discuss
  • ... items to be inserted yet!
  • 2009_01_15 - Thursday: OntologySummit2009 Launch Event - ConferenceCall_2009_01_15   

• Other upcoming events of interest - see: RelevantEventsOfInterest2008

6) Follow-ups from previous calls

7) Current Project Status Report & Discussion

• Ontolog Invited Speaker series

• EmergingOntologyShowcase mini-series

• SemanticWiki mini-series

• (planned) joint OOR-Ontolog panel series

• Ontology Summit 2009

• other thoughts from our recent event planning sessions
  • ref. http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_09_04#nid1LH1

8) Sponsorship and funding.

9) Any other business.

10) Next meeting date and adjourn

• Our next meeting/call will be the Thu 2008.10.09. Details will be at ConferenceCall_2008_10_09 (closer to the time) ... talk to you then!

• this call session adjourned _____ am PDT

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minutes captured in real time on this wiki by ______ / 2008.10.02-_____ am PDT

Attendees are requested to review the notes above, help clean it up, and make amendments and edits to better

reflect the proceedings of the session as they see fit (particularly where they are personally involved). =ppy