GOMINFOEX Participant in the Stockholm Challenge

 

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GOMINFOEX Action Committee Meeting

Dates:
December 14th: 1:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. - preparatory discussions and work
December 15th: 9:15 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. - central discussion session

 

Location: Casco Bay Lines Ferry Terminal  (http://www.cascobaylines.com/HTML/fr_park.htm) Portland, Maine

Suggested Accommodations: (http://www.innbythebay.com/)

Agenda Items:

Thursday - Afternoon:

1.       Issues around the People Finder / contacts database (http://www.gulfofmaine.org/cdb/index.html) . Exactly what is going to be maintained there, and how what is there may be accessed. Use of other contacts sources.

2.       Future of Participants Map (http://www.spatial.maine.edu/~schroedr/gom/participants.html) and relation to e-Atlas "projects mapping" component (http://www.islandinstitute.org/eatlas.html).

3.       Revision of current input page to the Participants Map; and general discussion of how to increasing involvement in the process.

4.       Overall revisiting of relationships between projects and GOMINFOEX (http://www.gominfoex.org).

5.       Rethinking geographic extent of the region, and its description - for myself, would like extent to include Halifax. Narragansett to Sable/Scotian Shelf?

6.       Schools-based participation in GOMINFOEX

7.       Future of the Participants map.

8.       Discussion on GeoData Alliance Principles (http://www.geoall.net/6p-principles.htm)

9.       Other.

 

Friday - All Day:

1.       Develop and agree on an appropriate GOMINFOEX structure

 

Purpose:
The Out of the Fog 2 Workshop (http://www.gulfofmaine.org/gominfoex/ootf2_agenda.html) agreed that additional work is required to formalise GOMINFOEX so that it might more clearly identify tasks and gain better access to financial resources - without reducing the existing collaboration, co-operation and synergies that have been characteristic of the initiative to date.

 

Following a brief review of our present status on Thursday afternoon, participants will consider appropriate organisational structures on Friday. An initial document will be generated for circulation at the beginning of the meeting to start the discussions. It is hoped that a document can be generated on Friday that might be acceptable for circulation to all interested parties. If successful, this document will be of use in future efforts of priority setting, planning and actions of indiiduals and of the group as a whole.

 

Preparatory Work:

1)   A one-page discussion document will be circulated.

2)   All GOMINFOEX participants should review the GeoData Alliance principles http://www.geoall.net/6p-principles.htm. Anyone with objections to accepting these for GOMINFOEX should write to the GOMINFOEX "Info-Nag" (boudreaupr@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca) by December 8th. If there are no serious objections, these principles may be approved and accepted for GOMINFOEX.

All participants are encouraged to provide input into the discussions and consensus document as they become available.