2024-03-04 CF Governance Panel meeting

Attending

• Karl, Jonathan, Bryan, Fanny, Ethan

Agenda

• Schedule next meeting
• Update on 2024 CF Workshop
• Working with OGC through OGC netCDF SWG
• Agreed (in email) to invite Guilherme Castelão to join CF info-mgmt team
• Meeting of CF info-mgmt team planned for 11 March at 15:00 UTC
• Update on AGU “open science prize” nomination
• AOB

Discussion

Schedule next meeting

• DECISION: 10 June 2024 at 15:00 UTC
  • Back-up date: 11 June 2024 at 15:00 UTC

Update on 2024 CF Workshop planning

• Dates set: 17-20 Sept 2024;
• In-person at SMHI, Norrköping, Sweden (remote participation available)
• Organizing committee now at seven members
• Committee working on
  • How to advertise, especially for first two days focus on high-level planning
  • How/where to publish proceedings/article

Working with OGC through OGC netCDF SWG

• Meeting was on 28 Feb 2024
• GeoZarr and connection to CF - OGC GeoZarr and netCDF SWGs will coordinate
• Unicode in netCDF object names, possible expertise on Unicode
• Update existing OGC documents related to netCDF and CF
  • Current documents based on CF 1.6
• Need to find co-chair for OGC netCDF SWG. Ideas?

Agreed (in email) to invite Guilherme Castelão to join CF info-mgmt team

• [As of April, Gui has accepted invitation.]

Meeting of CF info-mgmt team planned for 11 March at 15:00 UTC

• Discuss implementation of using/testing GitHub Discussion forums for CF

Update on AGU “open science prize” nomination

• AGU has limit of 50 on team size
• Consider requesting larger size in 2nd round or process

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