Action Items and Status Report - Pacific Islands Water Science Center
November 2-4, 2010

AI Identifier

Person(s) Assigned / Description of Action Item / Status of AI/Comment

Person(s) Assigned: Terri Moore

Issue: C&A

Description of Action Item: Terri to send Paul Exter recent request that was denied

Status:

12/15/10 --

Person(s) Assigned: Paul Exter

Issue: WRD network issues

Description of Action Item: How will the retirement of Bob Wakelee affect WRD network issues? Who will replace Bob and get the knowledge to continue working with WRD?

Status:

11/2/10 -- Paul Exter will follow up with Tim Lee

12/15/10 --

Person(s) Assigned: Ellen

Issue: Network Issues

Description of Action Item: Webinar to invite others to discuss network issues. Are there tools available to help diagnose and monitor traffic and issues?

Status:

12/15/10 – ITAC to stay involved with this process to ensure WSCs are getting what they need. Terri will continue to pursue this. May be testing with equipment from a different vendor.

Person(s) Assigned: Paul Exter

Issue: NatWeb

Description of Action Item: How will the NatWeb budget be affected by SharePoint?

Status:

12/15/10 --

Person(s) Assigned: Paul Exter

Issue: Hawaii TIC compliance

Description of Action Item: How to get Hawaii TIC compliance as it relates to PI WSC locations.

Status:

12/15/10 --

Person(s) Assigned: Burl Goree and Gary Fisher

Issue: Mobile Computing - FCIS

Description of Action Item: ITAC to review FCIS project plan and provide feedback.

Status:

12/15/10 - Bob S. forwarded the draft Field Computing Workplan to ITAC for review.

12/15/10 -- Bob will follow-up with Burl.

Person(s) Assigned: Burl Goree

Issue: Mobile Computing - SWAMI

Description of Action Item: Burl to look into historical measurement into SWAMI and report back to Bob Swanson; check with Dave on bug tracking

Status:

12/15/10 --

Person(s) Assigned: Gene Summerhill

Issue: Funding

Description of Action Item: Should we look to OGW, OSW, etc to help fund the effort? Concern over continued funding support for this effort. Team to look at different upcoming budget scenarios.

Status:

12/15/10 --

Person(s) Assigned: Gary

Issue: Flagging initial measurements as provisional

Description of Action Item: Take issue to SWUG and work with Burl

Status:

12/15/10 --

Person(s) Assigned: Dave Mueller

Issue: Integrated PDF Presentations

Description of Action Item: Add to list of webinars.

Status:

12/15/10 --

Person(s) Assigned: Sandy Williamson

Issue: Stream View

Description of Action Item: Sandy will contact the contractor to determine if they are still committed to the project.

Status:

12/15/10 – Still in negotiations with contractor. Bob, Katherine, and Sandy will pursue this further.

Person(s) Assigned: Ramona Traynor

Issue: ForeSee Feedback Tool

Description of Action Item: Collect data on WaterWatch and WaterAlert usage before and after new release.

Status:

12/15/10 – Ramona recently presented to the USGS Web Re-engineering group. Emphasis was to get the ForeSee survey on more pages. Email will go out to indicate we should have the survey on our pages, here is how to do it. Ramona drafting email.

Person(s) Assigned: Dave Mueller

Issue: WRD Data Archiving Policy

Description of Action Item: Need to lock down previous years files. Dave will talk with Ken Skipper about archiving electronic documents and contact different water offices to see how each currently archives their data.

Status:

12/15/10 – Dave sent Ken information before Thanksgiving. Dave and Ken will be in contact soon – first of the year. In Progress.

Person(s) Assigned: Ramona Traynor and Boyce Blanks

Issue: SharePoint Tracking

Description of Action Item: Ramona and Boyce will review ITAC Web information versus ITAC SharePoint page and convert from Web to SharePoint.

Status:

12/15/10 --

Person(s) Assigned: Terri Moore

Issue: SharePoint utilization

Description of Action Item: Terri to contact Dave Pratt about having a 1-hour session at the next ITAC meeting to show how the CA WSC is using SharePoint.

Status:

12/15/10 – In progress.

Person(s) Assigned: Shawn Noble

Issue: WAN Optimization - Riverbed technology pilot site

Description of Action Item: Shawn to try and get a better cost estimate for unit cost per piece, annual maintenance costs and life cycle replacement.

Status:

12/15/10 --

Person(s) Assigned:

Issue: Time-Series Committee

Description of Action Item: Start looking at the funding model and options. Talk with NAWQA BIO group about financial planning.

Status:

12/15/10 --

Person(s) Assigned: Katherine Lins

Issue: ArcGIS version 10 - overlap, alignment with Enterprise ArcGIS server initiative

Description of Action Item: ITAC to submit questions to her before meeting with GIS staff to clarify whether we should continue the effort or let the Enterprise folks handle this.

Status:

12/15/10 --

Person(s) Assigned: ITAC

Issue: GIS Science Support Issues

Description of Action Item: Push message using Dave McCulloch's white paper. ITAC to include anecdotal experiences in trying to use GIS without adequate support that Dave can add to his document.

Status:

12/15/10 --

Person(s) Assigned: ITAC

Issue: Webinars

Description of Action Item: Add ArcMap tool NWISWeb, Mobile Computing, Network issues, GIS Support from OWI.

Status:

12/15/10 -- COMPLETED

Person(s) Assigned: Gene Summerhill

Issue: oneINTERIOR Marketplace

Description of Action Item: Gene will check into the oneINTERIOR Marketplace discount program. Is it appropriate for Federal Employees to accept these discounts?

Status:

12/15/10 -- COMPLETED. Gene confirmed with Karen Baker that this site is official.

Person(s) Assigned: ITAC

Issue: Member issues and charter amendment

Description of Action Item: Membership should be a 3-year term with option to extend one year.

Status:

11/4/10 -- COMPLETED. Group voted unanimously to the new terms (one year option and 3 meetings a year)

Person(s) Assigned: ITAC

Issue: Membership

Description of Action Item: Addition of Gene Summerhill as an Ad Hoc member

Status:

11/4/10 -- COMPLETED. Gene will be added as an Ad Hoc member to the group and will attend meetings based on agenda.