Geodata Committee 16th Meeting

Meeting Details
Chair: David Bitner '''Voice: Conference Call IRC backup: #osgeo channel on irc.freenode.org (or via Web based IRC client) Date: 2008-March-26 (at least in the Americas and Europe) Time: 1500 GMT / 1100 East Coast (fixed time)

Agenda

 * Governance -- Add Vice Chairs? (Bitner)
 * Vector Data Status (Martin Spott)
 * GeoJSON Format Update (Chris Schmidt)
 * Raster Data Status (Chris Schmidt)
 * Metadata Update (Jo Walsh)
 * TelaScience Systems Update (Norman Vine, John Graham)
 * GeoNetwork Install (Lorenzo Becchi)
 * OSGB Study Response (Schuyler)
 * Mission Statement Work (Bitner)
 * 2008 Work Plan (Bitner)

Logs
IRC Logs although talk was primarily on the phone

Attendees

 * David Bitner
 * Kevin Ward
 * Ned Horning
 * Shawn Baldwin
 * Chris Schmidt
 * John Graham
 * Norman Vine
 * Dave Smith
 * Markus Neteler

Minutes

 * Governance
 * Idea to have Vice-Chairs for following categories
 * Raster Data Repository
 * Vector Data Repository
 * Metadata Standards / Tools (including GeoNetwork Install)
 * Systems (Coordinate with SAC / Telascience)
 * GeoData Licensing
 * Vice-Chair would just be responsible for keeping track of what is going on in their respective areas
 * Would be responsible to report at each meeting
 * Idea generally accepted, will send out a call for volunteers
 * Vector Data Status Report
 * has links to getCapabilities documents available
 * Martin Spott relayed after the meeting that he's been keeping the wiki up to date
 * Raster Data Status Report
 * We have a lot of relationships built to start ingesting near real-time Modis data as well as to acquire large amounts of data from USGS, NOAA, and NASA
 * Will plan a meeting in the near future to strategize the plans
 * TelaScience Systems Update
 * Discussion on where we have space, what work is being done on each machine
 * Mission Statement
 * Bitner will take another stab at pulling together the comments received in December