Geodata Committee Fifteenth Meeting

Time and Date
Postponed! until Thursday, 25th October 2007 at 1700UTC / 1800 UK / 1900 EU / 1300 East Coast / 1000 West Coast

(fixed time around the world)

Communication will use the Conference Call facilities also the IRC channel #osgeo see Getting Started.

Agenda

 * New Geodata Committee chair / governance structure.
 * Revisit optimal meeting day of week / time
 * Mission Statement -- Does it need work?
 * Geodata Repository index - what is to be done?
 * Updates on latest installations on the telascience.org systems
 * Discussion of "OSGeo Data Projects"
 * Please add more

Minutes
IRC Log

Attendees

 * Jo Walsh
 * David Bitner
 * Chris Schmidt
 * Dave Patton
 * Lorenzo Becchi
 * Norman Vine
 * Martin Spott

Summary
* we should try to have monthly scheduled meeting * Bitner will try to find some web 2.0 scheduler and post to the mailing list to find a new time * Rework workgroups to try to capture energy * Mission statement needs some thinking * Members encouraged to bring thoughts up to mailing list * Make GeoNetwork Install Priority * Lorenzo volunteered to be point person to follow GN activity * * * * Leave incubation to the incubation committee * Geodata Committee can help to find hosting for data sets and can support making data available through appropriate standards
 * Jo stepped down as chair of the committee. David Bitner steps in as chair.
 * Many thanks to Jo for getting this committee off the ground.
 * Meeting times
 * Mission Statement and Workgroups
 * Geodata Repository Index
 * Telascience activity
 * Geodata Project Incubation for projects that mix software and data