The purpose of the meeting was to form the working group from members representing NASA REASoN CAN awardees and other interested ESE activities. The following areas were discussed:

  • Plenary (see "context" ppt)
  • Introduction of participants (all added to SPG mailing list)
  • Introduction to & Overview : ESE Standards Process (see "process" ppt)
  • Goals of SPG (see "RFCs" ppt)
  • Potential areas to standardize (see "areas" ppt)
    • Identify likely standards that have an impact and can likely be quickly approved.
    • Identification of communities who will use the ESE Standards Process to promote their community standards for wider use.
  • Identification of SPG priorities (see "minutes" doc and "report" doc)
    • adopt the first three RFCS
    • Interaction with reuse, technology and metrics w/g
    • other priorities
  • SPG work process
  • Elect Co-chair (Ming Tsou, San Diego State University)
  • Report out from SPG to SEEDS Plenary (see "report" doc)