Agenda

• Provide a broad update/status of recommendations for Ideas4OGC as input to the summary for the Board of Directors meeting

Attendance

• Stan Tillman
• Geoff Zeiss
• Jack Pellicci
• George Percivall
• Chris Little
• Chris Body
• Dave Danko
• Paula McLeod
• Mark Reichardt

Minutes

• TopicUpdateVisionandMission - one additional revision which will be made available by Mark R.
• Under TopicIntegrateVision, Jeff DLB’s new development process concept has been moved to the Quality and Quantity sub-group under TopicNewDevApproach to ensure it is captured, as per previous agreement
• For TopicImprove Communications, the recommendation to create a “concise overview” has been captured in the Quality and Quantity topic
• Need for documentation consistency and leadership via a “Tsar” highlighted as important
• Recommendations roll up approach connects strategic goals from 2005 to recommendations from the ideas leadership group, as well as identifies actions already underway as per the Business Plan
• Created themes (example below) to classify recommendations
  • Housekeeping/ lifecycle management includes Human Resources (Doc), tools for Identified different groups with similar comments (etc)
• Items in Green came from the Ideas leadership team
• Full document is available on the portal here: https://portal.opengeospatial.org/?m=projects&a=view&project_id=439&tab=2
• There may be a need for a different type of standard (similar to the ISO PAS standard), that may not be covered in the recommendations in the document and require discussion – place mark.
• Document for BoD shows progress to date – will be presented as unfinished
• Chris Holmes papers up on the portal, representing his views on problems – recommended reading (complimentary to ideas approach). Files are here:
• https://portal.opengeospatial.org/?m=projects&a=view&project_id=439&tab=2
• General questions (thought provoker) to the group – given the intensity if the process (number of meetings etc), how does the group see the next phase unfolding? Potential priorities mentioned ; self-assessment, Overall Architecture guidance
• General consensus that the rolled up presentation for the BoD is ready to go and to connect the contents (and other actions underway not mentioned) to the Business Planning process.
• Comment on implementation of recommendations (topicNewDev approach referenced) – will be difficult an complicated, some may require prototyping to fully understand impacts on the OGC processes
• TC meeting – will go through recommendations in detail, identify key next steps and initial review of resource requirements