OntologySummit2008: Organizing Committee Conference Call - Thursday 07-Apr-2008

• This is the 8th conference call of the Ontology Summit 2008 organizing committee. The session is expected to be a ~1 Hour conference call.

• URL for this page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2008_04_07

Conference Call Details

• Date: Thursday, April 7, 2008
• Start Time: 12:30am PDT / 3:30pm EDT / 19:30 UTC
  • ref: World Clock
• Expected Call Duration: ~ 1.0 Hour
• Dial-in Number:
  • from US: +1-605-475-8590 (South Dakota, USA)
    • Conference ID: "5823120#"
  • Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120

• 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"

• RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated. (Regrets only)

Attendees

• Attended:
  • Steve Ray
  • Peter P. Yim
  • Barry Smith
  • Leo Obrst

• Expecting:
  • Michelle Raymond
  • Mark Musen

• Regrets:

Agenda Ideas

• postmortem on the 2/28, 3/27 & 4/3 OOR-Panel sessions and review preparation status for the upcoming one on 4/10
• status review and action plans for the online discourse
• status review on the F2F-workshop planning and preparation - review agenda
• draft communique preparation status
• status review on how we are getting the word out

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

Agenda & Proceedings

1. Meeting called to order:

• Steve Ray took the chair and welcomed everyone

• Peter P. Yim volunteered to take minutes of the meeting

• review and adopt agenda

• note that we have a hard stop at 1:30pm PDT / 4:30pm EDT as the Content Committee will be having their weekly call then. Which mean we have to finish this call in 1 hour or less.

2. Roll Call:

• see above

3. Status / Discussion of developing issues:

• Outstanding Issue Update: (from last call)
  • submit last year's communique to Applied Ontologies Journal [attn: Steve] - Steve contacted Michael Grüninger who will be working on it
  • Leo and Steve will try to provide input by last Tue, suggest we give Michael a go ahead even if there is no input.

• Discussions:

• postmortem on the 2/28, 3/27 & 4/3 OOR-Panel sessions and review preparation status for the 2 upcoming one on 4/10
  • see: ConferenceCall_2008_02_28 .. ConferenceCall_2008_03_27 .. ConferenceCall_2008_04_03
    • unfortunately, the voice and shared-screen quality on the 4/3 session were less than ideal, but the great content and collaborative spirit more than made up for it. The recording (after post-processing) is quite intelligible.
  • coming session - see: ConferenceCall_2008_04_10

• status review of the online discourse
  • refer to content committee call proceedings
  • Barry: for [quality-and-gatekeeping] comments are reaching an asymptote; and most are in favor of fairly strict syntactic gatekeeping.

• status review on the F2F-workshop planning and preparation
  • status of the F2F agenda - see: OntologySummit2008/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2008_04_07/FaceToFaceAgenda
  • Mark: we should have demos; if not at the sessions, maybe in the evenings, during the Tuesdays breaks, during lunch, etc.
    • Steve: doing it at the hotel would be more straight-forward (cost about same at hotel or at NIST in the evening), NIST will cover cost of hotel room, but if we need refreshments, we will have to find an outside sponsor.
    • Steve will ping Frank Olken on (i) having Frank also champion the demos, as part of the [state-of-art] thread, and (ii) suggest he adds a co-champion
    • demo: venue, time, constraints - firewall, etc.
    • bulletin board
    • BOF gatherings
    • we will pursue the possibility of having a demo segment, but will only decide to go ahead if we can do a proper job with it.
      • to be decided at the next meeting

• Registration deadlines!
  • Steve: hotel (reduced rate rooms) cut-off Sun 2008.04.13; NIST pre-registration closes on Mon 2008.04.21
    • Steve will make a post to [ontolog-invitation]

• the OntologySummit2008_Communique
  • Leo Obrst and Mark Musen were elected as our co-editors for the Communique and we'll look to them to get an outline and a draft out some time soon
  • please do draft work at: OntologySummit2008_Communique/Draft
  • Leo & Mark's communication to the content champions is out - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2008-04/msg00018.html

• status review on how we are getting the word out
  • Steve: see - http://interop.cim3.net/forum//ontology-summit-org/2008-04/msg00001.html
    • Peter: posted to our wiki, see also - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008#nid1DLP
    • Peter: we need to get the word out more ...
      • Steve will append the hotel and registration deadlines to the earlier announcement
      • Leo will then forward that (Steve compound message) to various relevant lists

5. New Issues:

6. Any Other Business:

7. Action items:

8. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:

• next Organizing Committee conference call - Mon 2008.04.14 - 1Hr. starting 12:30pm PDT / 3:30pm EDT
  • see details (closer to the time) at: OntologySummit2008/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2008_04_07/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2008_04_14

• Call adjourned at: 1:17 pm PDT

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2008.04.07-1:18pm PDT

All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.