Present
Anita de Waard, Bob Hanish, and Ed Seidel
Meeting Facilitators: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfield and John Towns
Working Agenda & Notes
Introductions
- Introduced all members of the steering committee
Internal selection of Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary roles for the SC
- Deferred until the next meeting
- There is no defined procedure for how this is done; will need to be determined by the group
- Ed Seidel will continue to serve as the interim steering committee until the election has been done
Discussion
- Review and ratification of current Draft Charter for the NDS Consortium (current version attached)
- Deferred until next meeting
- There are parts of the charter that need to be discussed now that an operating steering committee has been elected
- Consortium should continue to move forward
- The steering committee will advise the NDS on selection of the NDS Director
- Draft charter should be posted to the NDS website (include version and date on the document) Action > John
- Vision should be added to the website
- Meetings
- Meeting frequency and schedule need to be established
- Bob: suggests that at the start-up, the steering committee actively engages with the management team
- Bob: suggests the steering committee be involved in the NDS meeting planning
- Make announcements earlier
- John suggested having NDS meetings 3 times per year
- Joel: schedule should be driven by functional needs
- Misc
- Request from the steering committee to identify someone who will serve as a liaison between RDA and NDS
- There will need to be consideration given to becoming members of other organizations
- The steering committee is for the NDS Consortium and not the NDS
- Joel: one of the tasks for the steering committee is to establish a membership committee to define Consortium membership criteria