Monday Update

Weekly Update email/blog

Monday Update: Visioneers Call Today | CollabArea Updates - Geospatial, Semantic Web, Partnership | News from Federation Partner

I know that no one is thinking about July this morning, but the ESIP Visioneers are meeting today at 2 PM EST. The goal of the Visioneers is to make the ESIP meetings the best, most productive, most memorable meetings on the planet. We will be discussing the theme of the July 17-20, 2012 meeting in Madison, WI and beyond. Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada): 1-877-668-4493 Access code:928 802 435 

 
News from Federation collaboration areas from the last week: 
Geospatial Cluster had their first call last week with a presentation from James Gallagher on the release of OPeNDaP's Hyrax 1.8 server.
* Semantic Web has a proposed ToolMatch collaboration to match data collections with tools at:  http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/ToolMatch.  Feel free to add to or question what is there.

* The Partnership Committee met with the new members last week giving an abbreviated ESIP 101

Monday Updates: Geospatial Cluster Call today | Meeting Survey reminder | Data Journalism award

Quick email because I'm in transit back from the Data Management Workshop at AMS (Thanks to Bob Cook and Ruth Duerr for a great session!): 

* If you still need to fill out the Winter Meeting Survey, now is your last chance.
* The ESIP Geospatial cluster has their first meeting today, 2 EST
* Visioneers will meet to begin Summer 2012 planning, next Monday, 2 EST
* See the telecon calendar for all details. 
 

ESIP Updates: ESIP Assembly News | AGU Medal Nominations | EGU Abstract Submission

Very successful meeting last week! Thanks to all who participated. We have 7 new member organizations, a newly elected ESIP leadership and the ESIP assembly adopted guidelines for Data Citation and Data Sharing Principles. They also created a new Data Stewardship committee, now chaired by Curt Tilmes. 

A few meeting wrap-up links posted to the wiki: 

Monday Update: AGU | Winter Meeting | Award Nominations

I hope for those of you that celebrate Thanksgiving, you had a nice holiday weekend. As things quieted down last week, it gave me a chance to reflect on how thankful I am for the vibrant participation in the ESIP Federation. We couldn't do this without all of you :)  

Monday Update: Winter Meeting 2012 | New ESIP Awards | Around the Federation

The ESIP 2012 Winter Meeting planning is almost finished. The draft agenda is available on the wiki now. Thanks to all of the groups that worked with us to get the program together earlier. There are still a few spaces for breakout sessions, if you have last minute ideas. Meeting registration will go live tomorrow morning, however you can book your hotel rooms now.

In preparation for the Winter Meeting Business Meeting, ESIP Voting Reps, heads up on a vote that will be sent out in the next day or so on minor changes being proposed to the ESIP constitution and bylaws. 
New ESIP Awards: 
As part of Federation goals to better recognizing the tremendous effort our members put forth to forward the overall work this community does, the Partnership Committee has created two new awards: 
  1. President's Award - This award is proposed to honor an individual who has made the most significant contribution to the Federation in the previous year. This award will be given annually at the ESIP Winter Meeting. The awardee receives a plaque.
     
  2. ESIP of the Year - This award is to honor an ESIP partner organization that best exemplifies the Spirit of ESIP in one or more areas. This award will be given annually at the Winter Meeting. The member organization will receive a plaque.
We will be awarding these along with the Martha Maiden Award at the Winter Meeting. Nominations are due Dec. 1.

Monday Updates: Ignite @ AGU | ESIP Winter Meeting Sessions | Drush Maintainer on Drupal Cluster Call Wed

October is flying by! Here is the weekly update of what's going on around ESIP. 

  • ESIP is hosting an Ignite event at AGU, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 6-8pm, similar to the Summer Meeting Ignite (20 slides, 5 mins, auto advance - go!). Stay tuned for details will follow this week.
     
  • Final week to submit ESIPFed Winter Meeting session abstracts. The theme of the meeting is "Connections Through Collaboration: Engaging Community Throughout the Data Life Cycle", so sessions that are connected to other groups you work with outside ESIP are welcome. Deadline for submission is Oct. 21. Winter Meeting registration will open next Monday. 

Monday Update: Submit Meeting Session Ideas | Discovery EarthCube White Paper | ESIP Blog | Maiden Award Nomination Reminder

Happy Columbus Day! 

  • 11 more days to submit ESIPFed Winter Meeting session abstracts. The theme of the meeting is "Connections Through Collaboration: Engaging Community Throughout the Data Life Cycle", so sessions that are connected to other groups you work with outside ESIP are welcome. Deadline for submission is Oct. 21.
     
  • The Discovery cluster wrote a white paper on the ESIP wiki for EarthCube titled: "A Light-Weight Approach to Data Discovery". If you support the ideas described in the paper, sign on the wiki page. 
     
  • On the ESIPFed Blog last week:
  •  Martha Maiden Award Nomination Reminder - We are accepting nominations for the Martha Maiden Award.  This award honors individuals who have demonstrated leadership, dedication and a collaborative spirit in advancing the field of Earth Science information. (Details).
     
  • Telecons this week:
    • Discovery - Tues 
    • Preservation & Stewardship - Wed
    • Air Quality, Data Management Short Course and Energy/Climate - Thurs

Monday Updates on Tuesday: Winter Meeting Session Submission - due Oct. 21 | News around the Federation

Apologies for the delayed Monday Update. The big news in this update is to submit sessions for the ESIP Winter Meeting. Submissions are due Oct. 21, in order to set the agenda and allow time for meeting participants to make travel arrangements.There are two types of sessions breakouts and workshops. 

2011-09-26: Winter Meeting Theme/Abstracts| Nominations Open for Martha Maiden Award | Notes from the Federation

A lot packed into this week's update: 

  • Winter Meeting - Theme and details on session abstract submission
  • Call for Nominations for the 2012 Martha Maiden Award  
  • News from Around the Federation -  (Student DataViz Challenge; Call for Nominations for ASPRS Outstanding Technical Achievement Award)
Two quick housekeeping notes: (1) Links to all list-servs and workspace are located on the Collaboration Area page of the website. (2) For telecon information visit the website telecon page or subscribe to the Google Calendar (call-in details are listed here too). 
 
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