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ITAC Teleconference - January 11, 2008-- 11:00 am -- 1:00 pm ET
Below is the "connect" information for the ITAC teleconference/WebEx session. Please forward it to anyone else who should be invited to participate in the meeting:
WebEx Connect Information:
Webex - usgs.webex.com
Conference: ITAC Conference Call
Host: Kym Burns - 703-648-5609
Date: Friday, January 11, 2008
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Dial In Numbers: 1-866-792-0015
Passcode: 5795983#
ITAC email: GS-W
ITAC
The following members attended today's cyber conference call:
| Roll Call |
TITLE AND lOCATION |
| Katherine Lins |
Chief, Office of Water Information -- Reston, VA |
| Athena Clark, Chair |
Science Center Director -- Montgomery, AL |
| David Boldt |
Acting Chief, WICAS -- Reston, VA |
| Donna Schiffer |
Deputy Science Center Director -- Sacramento, CA |
| Kym Burns |
Executive Secretary -- Reston, VA |
| Sandy Williamson |
WRD Technical Offices -- Tacoma, WA |
| Jim Steverson |
National Water Quality Laboratory -- Denver, CO |
| Jess Griffin |
System Administrator -- Oklahoma City, OK |
| Susan Trapanese |
Chief, NWIS -- Reston, VA |
| Dave Berger |
Studies Section Chief -- Carson City, NV |
| Brian Reece |
Data Base Administrator -- Austin, TX |
Shaun Wicklein
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Data Chief Representative -- Richmond, Virginia |
- Action Items
- Lotus Quickplace Comments
Welcome to 2008
- Introductions of all ITAC members and New members
- Kym will send out Action Items prior to conference calls so that Action Item updates can be expedited.
Conference Call Day and Time
- It was discussed to change the day of the week.
- Wednesday will be the selected day.
- The time will remain the same 11 – 1pm. 2nd Wednesday of the month
2008 Goals:
Building LA Agenda
- Topics or Possible Topics
- Burl – invite back for an update on mobile computing
- Paul Exter – sent Athena a list of Items he would like to address
- LA is in the Central Region, and so was TX. Athena has contacted Cheryl Morris.
- Follow up with Ron Lofton for the Geospatial program
- Invite Scott to present on GMIS and myUSGS (Donna has sent an email to Sky to request information from TX meeting, she will forward to Scott)
- Invite ICOM Chair for an update by phone
- Presentation on emergency response/technology items (Katrina)– What did the USGS to respond? It could also be included in the Science Center presentation – Athena will talk to Charlie about this presentation. Donna will get the name of the person that gave a talk in MD about emergency response.
- Sandy – text messaging and Pin to Pin communication on blackberry’s in emergency situations when land lines and cell voice is jammed.
- Redesign of the USGS Web presence (western region is piloting this) – this falls under Karen Klima. There may be more information on redesigning Water's pages as well. We can hold off on adding it as an agenda item for now.
- Bulletin Board for Google Maps. Sandy will try to get the administrator (Judy Ferrier) to present.
- Futures Service Center Team – Wade Hood and/or Paul Exter to give updates. Athena will contact.
- Brian - Web-based digital archiving of operational data
- Discussion of future locations for ITAC face to face meetings.
- Howard - update on webpages.
- Jess/Brian – update on compiling of the existing IIS and ArcIMS servers
- Katherine would like a brief out on the SA training.
- Tuesday – Travel Day
- Wednesday – Town Hall
- Thursday – ITAC Meeting and Field Trip
- Friday – Morning Session and Safe Trip Home
Everyone – send a note out asking their constituents for input to the topics to be discussed.
LA Hotel and Information Update
- Jim will send Kym hotel suggestions.
- Kym will send out information the week of January 10th.
Action Items (01.11.2008 Action Items in the ITAC team room)
Miscellaneous
- Sandy requested that the ITAC members check out the Google Maps Bulletin Board at the bottom of the webinar invitation.
- Jess, has worked with Debra Spar to make sure Gloria gets a non-monetary award. Jess will draft an email.
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