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