ASC Meeting January 25, 2005

Partipants: David Lassner (chair), George Thoma, Bill Decker, Homer Neal, Laurie Burns, Cheryl Munn-Fremon, Terri Saarinen - scribe

Updates from Internet2 (Cheryl): On Monday, January 31, NPPAC will get a high level update on the ASC action agenda.

Update/Discussion of Ongoing ASC Agenda for Action
Future agendas will be structured around the action items underway.

Campus Expectations Task Force Bill Decker has agreed to chair and convene this group. Potential members are being identified.

Real Time Communications Architecture and Advisory Group Tyler Johnson has agreed to chair. Jonathan Tyman is the flywheel and Ben Chinowsky will scribe for the group. TO DO: David, Tyler Johnson and Jonathan Tyman are talking this week to review draft charter and determine membership.

Lecture Object Intent is to have survey out soon based on draft questions circulated in December. The results will be shared at Spring Member meeting. TO DO: Cheryl will get web survey up. TO DO: David will send draft out one more time to give ASC additional opportunity for comment.

Application Awards David has been working with Greg Wood and Kathleen McMonigal on an applications award program. Idea is to have award, like the Land Speed Record, to recognize teaching, learning, research, collaboration applications that have "transformed" or made a difference in the practice of learning, teaching, research. Three criteria will be considered are: impact on change to users, creativity of application, and potential impact on the future.

Teaching & Learning Working Group Two co-chairs have been named, Marty Seigel and Jennifer MacDougall. Ann Doyle is flywheel and Susan Topol is scribe.

Outreach to Research Community Bill Decker continues to take the lead on this with Laurie Burns and the discipline program managers providing some staffing resources.

Application Dissemination Strategy is the idea of getting applications into production. Real Time Communications, Lecture Objects and the awards program should be seen as part of this effort. ASC is curious if there are other ideas for how to accomplish moving applications to production. ASC will keep talking about this, but not an agenda for action item.

Application Database Important that database be both useful and usable; simple but with utility. Database should be a very user-focused tool that could show what a list of tools, software and projects. Maybe this is more an "opportunity" database or an "impact" database than an "applications" database. Need to balance database between useable and useful and tedious, hard to maintain, and incomplete.
TO DO: George Brett to have discussion with Discipline Program Area Managers to see what's out there. How do we get those with specific interests aware of what else is going on?

Other Items
  Internet2 Discipline Program Managers Internet2 Discipline Program managers will be invited to participate on monthly calls of the ASC.

  ASC Openings (David) Internet2 has sent out call for Board and Council nominations. There are between 3 and 5 openings for the ASC. Nomination form is on the Internet2 web site.

  Sessions at Next Member Meeting (All) - ASC face-to-face half day meeting, RTC (Tyler) BoF, Teaching & Learning BoF, Lecture Objects (share survey results, next steps), session for application awards program introduction.

Next/Future Meetings (David)
  Nov/Dec Change November/December 2005 call will be held on Wednesday, December 7 from 1:00 - 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time.

  Face-to-Face at Spring Member Meeting After some discussion, it was determined that Monday afternoon (May 2) would be preferred for a half-day face to face ASC meeting. Tentative plan is to begin at 11:30 with buffet lunch and conclude by 4:30 pm.