[Esip-cf] CF Cluster business

[Raskin, Rob (388M)]

The ESIP CF Cluster is now officially starting!

1. We need to identify a telecon date/time, and I suggest we start next week. Please email me (not the entire list) which of the following times will work for you:
1st Tuesday 11am ET
1st Tuesday 12noon ET
1st Wednesday 11am ET
1st Wednesday 12noon ET
1st Thursday 11am ET
1st Thursday 12noon ET

2. The cf-satellite email list (sponsored by Unidata) suddenly became very active (over 50 posts since our Santa Fe meeting). You can view the posts at: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/archives/cf-satellite
or join the list at: http://mailman.unidata.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-satellite

3. Given the heavy traffic on the Unidata cf-satellite list (where specific CF extensions are discussed), the ESIP-CF list can focus instead on:
- Strategic planning - what areas should CF expand into (data quality, swath geometry, etc.)?
- Providing CF tutorials at meetings
- Developing use cases and interoperability demonstrations to support greater usage of the standards
- anything else of interest

4. The ESIP Cluster wiki site is: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/CF . Please feel free to add content to it.

5. A reminder...  extensions to the CF standards happen entirely through proposals submitted from the community.

-Rob

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Rob Raskin
Group Supervisor, Science Data Engineering and Archiving
Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA 91109
(818) 354-4228