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Agenda for Strategic Planning Meeting

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The Strategic Planning Meeting will take place October 23-24, 2006. It is one day devoted to strategic planning, and a second day to discuss the implementation approaches.

Possible Additions:

further improvements to mission, Terms of Reference, proposal policy...
development of SWOT analysis
development a strategic plan
ORION proposal discussion

Proposed Agenda: Day 1--Strategic Planning

0800: Continental Breakfast Available

Casual start to the day here, nothing exciting will happen before 8:40.

0830: Graybeal, Watson, Bogden: Welcome, Introductions

Logistics, Questions, and Bonhomie

0845: Graybeal/Bermudez: Agenda, Context and Ground Rules for Meeting

Definition of terms:

Short-term: During the next 3 years, particularly the first part of that period
Medium-term: Starting about 2 years from now, extending somewhat past the end of the existing NSF contract
Long-term: After the end of the existing MMI award, to an arbitrary future point (10 years from now, say)

Warmup

0900: Comments Concerning MMI (Stephanie Watson)

Each participant is encouraged to offer a one minute statement about their desires and vision for MMI.

0930: Setting the Context (John Graybeal)

Do we want MMI's mission to continue for the long term?

If so, what funding model(s) do we prefer?

Product: Prioritized list of long-term outcomes.

1015: BREAK

Topic I: What is MMI?

1030: MMI Breadth of Focus 1: Operational Services (Andy Maffei)

MMI provides one operational service, its web site, which does not cause major problems if it is not available.

Should MMI take on more demanding service provider roles that would require services to be available with minimal down time or failures?

Examples:

registries/catalogs for web services, vocabularies and maps, standards, or metadata
web services to perform semantic translations for applications

Product: Guidelines for deciding whether to provide an operational capability.

1115: TechTalk: Presenting Points of View with Plone (WHOI / Bermudez?)

1130: MMI Breadth of Focus 2: To Opine, or not to Opine (Matt Howard)

MMI provides many references, but relatively little context or guidance about those references. What should the MMI policy be for:

presenting an MMI or community opinion?
presenting "expert" opinions?
presenting individual's opinions?

How do these policies relate to the general MMI activity of consulting in the development of standards and technologies? (Too rigorous an application of the policies to our 'internal' developments would make progress difficult.)

How should MMI control its branding and logo to ensure that they reflect these policies?

Product: Recommended policies on each of the above (whether MMI should do them, and any policies it should follow if so), and commentary on whether the policies apply to MMI's contribution to individual techical activities (e.g., OOSTethys).

1230: LUNCH

1345: MMI Breadth of Focus 3: Environmental Metadata R Us? (Stephen Miller)

Product: Recommended strategy for, or against, addressing non-marine environmental science metadata issues in MMI's vision, goals, and web site.

1415: MMI Breadth of Focus 4: Constraints and Priorities (Philip Bogden?)

Are there other constraints that people see on what MMI should try to do?

Are there clear priorities that people see in MMI's tasks and activities?

Product: List of overriding constraints and priorities. (Not a list of our priorities, but identifying any tasks that are strategically of utmost importance.)