[Board] FYI:Report about AGU meeting + question

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Peter,

Thank you for taking the time yesterday to attend the OSGeo Board 
meeting, and providing this detailed report from the kickoff meeting. 
OSGeo is very lucky to have you at that table of 70, flying the OSGeo 
flag yet again.  I feel the same as Dirk that this relationship with the 
AGU is very important for OSGeo and its vibrant geoscience community. 
Your reference of OSGeo in the "Public Geodata Repository" for research 
data is also very timely, as the OSGeo Board was yesterday discussing 
the importance of promoting open geodata to our mission.

I agree that this topic "FAIR" will be a great reason to start a closer 
relationship and work together on a formal MOU agreement.  Please keep 
up the great work of keeping the OSGeo Board updated with this discussion.

Peter what do you think of starting to record these AGU meeting reports 
& updates on the OSGeo wiki?  I think that would help us when it comes 
time to work on the MOU agreement together.

Re: Question

Thanks for pointing to the Board and Officers page, which definitely 
needs some love.  In the old days this would have fallen to the 
shoulders of someone editing the website, but today this really is the 
responsibility of the OSGeo Secretary, keeping records of all officers 
and also making sure any public pages are accurate (and informing others 
if need be).  We are in the process of updating the executive board 
(president/vp) and other positions, so we will tackle these important 
officer records shortly.

-jeff




On 2017-11-22 8:19 AM, "Peter Löwe" wrote:
> Dear Board,
> 
> #1: FYI:
> Here's a short summary regarding last weeks meeting for the Enabling FAIR project (financed through the Amrican Geoscience Union).
> 
> For the kick-off meeting in Alexandria, VA, AGU invited 7o persons as stakeholders/representatives from these (overlapping) fields, including, but not limited to AGU-members:
> - US-funding agencies,
> - publishers/editors (including Science, Nature, Copernicus, etc.),
> - data repository manager (-> PANGAEA, NASA, etc.)
> - data community (RDA, FORCE11, etc.)
> - data/publishing infrastructure
> - journal workflow vendors
> - librarians
> - researcher/scientists (covering both early career and end-of career).
> 
> I guess I was invited for being part of the data community -- librarian -- data infrastructure/repository triangle [waving the OSGeo-flag during the meeting, of course].
> 
> The project goal us to establish a "global multi-stakeholder coalition of multi-stakeholder coalitions" to compile and summarize the current state of the art regarding the FAIR (Findable|Accessible|Interoperable|Reproducible) principles for scientific data. It is noteworthy that in this paradigm,*** software is considered a subset of data *** ! AGU is handling the project management. Based on the compilated materials and best practices about FAIR, pilot applications/workflows/etc. will be created, to be used/tested within the AGU Earth and Space Science Division (ESSI). In a follow up step (after the projects lifespan), those pilots which worked well, shall be extended and applied outside of AGU (driven by global communities like RDA or FORCE11 [and possibly OSGeo]).
> 
> IMHO, OSGeo qualifies both as a multi-stakeholder coalition and a research data repository (of repositories?): OSGeo is already being listed in the re3data-repository-of-research-data-repositories: https://www.re3data.org/search?query=OSGeo
> 
> The topic/buzzword "FAIR" will most likely be relevant for the next steps towards a MOU with AGU. As a first step, points of contact at AGU could be identified duing the meeting. I will keep the board updated as the dialogue evolves.
> 
> #2: Question
> The current list of board and officers (http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html) lists Vice Presidents for five of the existing OSGeo committees. What about the other committees, including the Open Geoscience Committee ?
> 
> best,
> peter
>