<html><body style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div>hello everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>there have not been any more subscription requests for the past few days now, so i think the initial core group members have registered. thank you again for your interest.<br></div><div><br></div><div>due to the end of year holidays, along with commitments to meetings and projects, i propose we begin our main discussions in late January or early February 2020. <br></div><div><br></div><div>before that time, i will work to prepare some drafts of the initial work tasks/process flow documentation that was originally discussed prior to the official start of this group.</div><div><br></div><div>roughly this work consists of:</div><br>
1) description of how the committee should draft terminology entries; idea to base this on some simple and clear predefined practices<br> <br>2) refine the flow of how the committee works with a terminology entry; (from discovery, discussion, agreement, and publishing to <a href="http://osgeo.geolexica.org">osgeo.geolexica.org</a>)<br><br><div>
3) learn who our users are/will be and if we are meeting their needs</div><div><br></div><div>to enable collaboration with the members of this group, the plan is to work on these documents online, using google docs/sheets. <br></div><div>once some finalized materials are ready these could be shifted to our Lexicon wiki page or retained on google. <br></div><div><br></div><div>since the list is visible to non-members through the archive, the shared links will be set for RO with the ability to comment. <br></div><div>if anyone wants to do more than comment, you can contact me off-list and i will give you access to the documents.</div><div><br></div><div>some of you have provided links in your introduction messages. i will assume those links are public and can be shared in any documents. <br></div><div><br></div><div>once the drafts are ready for comment, i will send around the links. <br></div><div><br></div><div>thank you for your patience. talk with you again soon.<br></div><div><br></div><div>reese<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> <br></div></body></html>