04/07/21 TC

SPG Telecon Notes for July 21, 2004 2pm ET telecon

Attendees:

Rich Ullman, Yonsook Enloe, Jingli Yang, Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Chris Lenhardt, Helen Conover, Siri Jodha S. Khalsa, John Evans, Glenn Cunningham, Gi Kong Kim, Allan Doyle, Ananth Rao, Michelle Anthony, Keith Stark, Larry Sugarbaker

Next SPG ALL telecon : Wed Sept 15 at 2pm ET (no August SPG Telecon)

New TWG004 telecon : Wed Aug 25 at 2pm EDT

New Action Items:

• For the DAP 2 spec edits, Allan will provide more details of what is needed in the two sections. Purpose/Motivation and description of Implementations. After Allan writes the guidelines for these two sections, Helen and Jingli will review the sections.
• Allan Doyle – will communicate with DAP2 author and ask him to rewrite the Purpose/Motivation and description of Implementations, giving him the written guidelines.
• Helen Conover – synch RFC003, RFC002, and “How to Submit..” guide with recent changes in Purpose/Motivation and description of Implementation changes and any other relevant recent changes
• All – anyone who wants to be on the new TWG to evaluate the RFC-004 – the DAP 2 spec, please contact Rich Ullman

Decisions:

• Proposed Standards Submitters will not be required to do an analysis, comparing their proposed standard with other existing standards, nor be required to do a literature search of other existing standards.
• DAP 2 Spec has passed Initial Review (with some recommended edits) and will be moved to a newly chartered TWG for consideration for approval.
• TWG chartered for evaluation of the DAP 2 spec. Initial members are : Chair-Rich Ullman, Gi-Kong Kim, John Evans, Helen Conover, Jingli Yang, Yonsook Enloe

Notes/Discussion:

• Ming gave a recap of the ESDWG Planning meeting. The chairs and co-chairs of all 4 working groups meet with Kathy and exchange information once a month, the first Tuesday of each month. * Tech Infusion – they have a concept to create a movie – how tech infusion can benefit stakeholders and ESE community. Hope to see this movie at the Oct face to face meeting. Categorizing technologies needed for 2010.
  • Reuse team – published IGARS paper. Summary of online survey responses are online. Had a face to face team meeting last week.
  • SPG – DAP 2 submitted as a proposed standard and in technical review. How to Submit Guide is complete.
  • Metrics – Looking at combining ESIP Fed metrics and REASON metrics.
  • Overall – Kathy wants to encourage participation in the WG. Kathy wants to identify people who are actively participating and who are not.
• New SPG member – Michelle Anthony
• Ananth gave an update of the recent plone/spg website changes. Have a new search button - to search other ESDWG websites. Gateway between the website and the mailing list.
• Helen gave an update of the recent changes she made to the RFC 003 and the “How to Submit an RFC” guide. These will also need to be updated with the better description of what is needed for “purpose/motivation” and “Implementations” sections. She will also take a look at the RFC 002 (the Process RFC) to see if any changes need to be made. Since RFC 002 is in final form.
• Jingli is talking to Larry’s scientist to identify potential community and potential leaders to adopt the FGDC Vegetation Index standard.
• Issue: SPG should adopt or just endorse the FGDC Vegetation Index standard? Is an evaluation needed by the SPG for this standard if FGDC already went through an evaluation? Maybe the RFC for this should just expand on the “Motivation” section?
• August Federation meeting – who is going? Rich will be giving a talk during the plenary. Helen will probably go. Either Denny Grossman or Larry Sugarbaker from Naturserve will attend. Chris Lenhardt will attend. Yonsook will attend.