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#Jump on IRC.

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

• 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

 * 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

• Mission Statement and Workgroups

 * Rework workgroups to try to capture energy
 * Mission statement needs some thinking
 * Members encouraged to bring thoughts up to mailing list

• Geodata Repository Index

 * Make GeoNetwork Install Priority
 * Lorenzo volunteered to be point person to follow GN activity

• Telascience activity

 * [1]
 * [2]
 * [3]

• Geodata Project Incubation for projects that mix software and data

 * 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