09/02/18 TC

Attendees: Rich Ullman, Yonsook Enloe, Peter Leonard, Ananth Rao, Glenn Cunningham, Daniel Jacob, John Scialdone, Allan Doyle, Helen Conover, Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Ed Armstrong, Siri Jodha Khalsa, Gao Chen

Next SPG telecon : Wed March 25, 2009 at 3pm ET

Action Items:

• March 25 – SPG Staff will produce a template for a letter of acknowledgment from Martha/Frank to RFC author after the endorsement of the RFC.
• Feb 26 – Ananth to repopulate the spg-announce email list
• Feb 28 – Rich to send the newsletter to the spg-announce email list and also to the User Services organizations at the DAACs.

Notes/Discussion:

• Rich discussed a potential letter of acknowledgment that Martha could send to the RFC author after the endorsement of the RFC as a standard or tech note. Rich could provide a sample letter to Martha about a month after sending her the SWAL and endorsement letter. She could send the letter as is or revise it. SPG Staff will produce a template for this letter.
• Ed Armstrong noted that Brian Wilson’s web casting presentation that he made at the Jan ESIP Fed meeting will be on the SPG website tomorrow.
• Glenn Cunningham discussed the latest draft of the SPG newsletter. Rich will send the newsletter to Frank and Martha. Rich will also send it to the spg-announce email list as soon as it’s been repopulated.
• The next telecon is scheduled for Wed March 25 at 3pm ET.
• July SPG meeting planning – the SPG meeting will be either July 7 or 8 in Santa Barbara. Carol Meyer will confirm. (*Since the SPG telecon, Carol has confirmed that the SPG meeting is scheduled for July 7.) Allan will start pinging some potential speakers about giving web services talks. Allan will also take a look at the cloud computing topic.
• Outreach discussion – all SPG members are encouraged to take copies of the 1 page SPG flyer and the latest copy of the newsletter, which are both available on the SPG website, and bring them to appropriate meetings where the outreach materials could potentially encourage RFC submissions.
• SERF RFC update – Allan noted that the TWG has received 1 review response so far. John Scialdone will try to encourage people to send reviews.
• Tech Notes TWG – Ananth – TWG will meet tomorrow and consolidate the initial review comments and send to Chris Lynnes.
• Future RFCs –
  • ICARTT – Gao Chen has a few questions for Daniel. This is a good time for Gao to document the ICARTT standard and he will start.
  • Time Enabled WMS/KML – Allan says that Karl thinks he will have something in a month or so.
  • NetCDF4 – Ed Hartnett is putting this documentation together and using the HDF5 RFC as a template. He hopes to have something together in a month.
  • NetCDF API RFC – Russ is non-committal about this.
  • DAP2 to HDF5 mapping – Allan has heard back from Kent Yang (HDF Group). Kent is the final stage of drafting the tech note. Maybe next month?
  • CF – Daniel heard from Balaji, the CF RFC author. He is not very far in the draft. Not sure when he will complete this.
• GEOSS Best practices wiki – Ruth Duerr would like the SPG to submit all approved RFCs to the GEOSS best practices wiki. SPG should encourage the submission but shouldn’t submit on behalf of the author. SPG should notify Ruth each time an RFC Tech Note is approved. Then she can contact the RFC author and encourage submission.
• Siri Jodha gave an update on the GEOSS SIF. Work being done on regional SIF team guidelines.