[GO-ESSP] GO-ESSP Action Plans

[Steve Hankin]

Bryan, Jeremy,

Thanks muchisimo for finding the energy to send out this summary of 
action plan commitments.  It's almost more valuable arriving a bit late 
-- at about the right time to see if the activities in question were 
successfully initiated or not.  Rocky posed the question of how we 
should turn this document into a reporting mechanism.  One partial 
answer is that in preparation for the next meeting we will all provide 
written responses and then look over our collective successes at the 
next meeting.  As to mid-term (between-meeting) reporting, the level of 
detail required is so high that I cannot imagine it being handled well 
by email.  It seems a good candidate to be put on a Wiki and 
collectively edited detail by detail on the parts we each "own".   Kyle 
-- does the PCMDI site include a Wiki?  Other volunteers?

Regarding the "CF Action Plan" that you sent around on 9/26 -- here is 
an interim report on the topic of "*how best to handle in situ 
observations*", that has my name on it.  Some interesting things are 
happening.

    Mike Johnson, the NOAA program manager in charge of NOAA's climate
    observing system effort, ponied up some funds for a contract to
    write up the DAPPER (OPeNDAP) protocol as a formal specification. 
    Joe Sirott issued a draft of that specification on Oct. 3
    (http://www.epic.noaa.gov/epic/software/dapper/dapperdocs/conventions/). 
    Email discussion has been vigorous -- very encouraging to see.  Joe
    expressed a preference to manage changes on this document informally
    at least for the next few months, during which modifications may be
    relatively rapid.  Thereafter I hope we can migrate the document to
    the CF site at PCMDI and see if we can move towards an orderly issue
    tracking in the evolution of the standard.  The current draft does
    not handle point data (scattered) nor track data.  Nor was it
    intended to.  The pressing need to support these data types,
    however, has been voiced already in the dialog.  Hopefully those
    needs will be addressed as DAPPER evolves.

    - Steve

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Bryan Lawrence wrote:
> Hi Folks
>
> At the June meeting we identified some key actions for the GO-ESSP
> community over the current year. Attached are the notes from that
> discussion outlining what we agreed are significant things to be working
> on. I'm sorry they're so late.
>
> I'd be glad of corrections and comments. I plan to hassle the named
> folks around the end of the year to see how we're going ... 
>
> (I'll try and address the GO-ESSP wiki issues shortly too, we're aware
> that the old wiki is locked).
>
>
> Cheers
> Bryan
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