Attending: Kelly Chatain, Wendy Thomas, Achim Wackerow, Jared Lyle, Steve McEachern
- Project Management Update: Project manager to focus on DDI Moving Forward, with other tasks taking secondary priority. To include related action items coming out of Dagstuhl, with care taken to keep focus constrained.
- Review prototype Gantt chart
- Task plan and organization - Add more to the gantt-style to make sure we have all overlapping tasks and working groups, with deadlines - Kelly will work on this with Wendy. (research gantt-for JIRA or other solutions)
- Assignment of resources - Need to think of who we need in terms of validation, documentation, use case development, examples. Send validation doc to group for review
- Chur meeting was cancelled due to low confirmation number. Do we need another face-to-face meeting? - Kelly to contact BLS (Dan Gillman_ for possible three-day meeting before NADDI)
- If yes, who should be there for which topics? GESIS Cologne might be a possibility for a meeting.
- Organization of new AG Group
- Roles: Scientific Board Chair to chair the group, Minutes to be taken by the Project Manager, Consult with PM and Wendy to set agenda, etc.
- Meeting times: Keep as is, meeting every other week. Next meeting on January 17th.
- Name (the intention is to have something more than an advisory group):
DDI 4 Prototype Release PMG (Project Management Group) We should communicate this name change. (see below)
- Communication for prototype
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WvAX7d1LcPGQfrlELCw7oHjp1MWUVglllA1QfwqTtBM/edit: To include the renamed Project Management Group. Send to DDI-SRG (PMG:, etc.), post on website, DDI-Users
- https://www.ddialliance.org/sites/default/files/20171130_Executive_Board_minutes.pdf
- Jared will send out Monday, Dec. 18th, to users and website
- RDF Consultant contract is finalized. Eric is ready to start working. Jared to schedule a call with Eric to discuss general process, the Dagstuhl RDF document, expected work, and the setup of RDF work group (see Dagstuhl week one report). With Kelly.
- Potentials for RDF group: Darren, Deirdre, Oliver (TC), Dan Smith (TC), Guillaume