[DDI-CDG] Telephone conference and IASSIST

[Wendy Thomas]

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On Wed, 4 May 2005, Oliver Watteler wrote:

> Dear all!
>
> I just wanted to get out three questions to you before I'm off for a
> long week-end (public holiday in Germany tomorrow):
> a) If it's o.k. with you I would like to organize a telephone conference
> on May 17th to discuss open questions and prepare our Working Group
> Meeting at IASSIST.

Not sure if I can do this one but don't have an alternative thats better

> b) What do you think about the schedule that Mary has send around? Do
> you think it's feasible or do we need more time? I personally think we
> should spend less time for presentations and outlines (e.g. on Sunday
> morning) than for actual work.

Basically the working groups have a total of 6.5 hours. I am assuming that
the Sunday reports may not take 2 hours and the working groups will start
early. However, it will be Usabilities one chance to let people know what
they're up to. The only working groups actually meeting are:

Aggregate Data, Geography, Time
Instrument documentation
Comarative Data

Usability, SDG, and Complex file people will be distributing themselves.
Its important that we present clearly what will be covered and what we
hope to accomplish at the working group meeting.

Thats the only section that seems like it could possibly be reduced, but
with 5 groups it would be difficult to schedule less time.


> c) We should be thinking about at least three things which should be
> done before Edinburgh:
> 1. set up an agenda,
> 2. prepare the list of scenarios for the Structural Reform Group, and
> 3. come up with a list of topics which have to be included in DDI 3 in
> order to document what we want.
>

Yes...can't think of anything to add.

> The list under 3 should be a short topic list, which can be filled with
> the details we are currently working on and which serves as a guideline
> for discussion. This is in my eyes important, because there will
> obviously be some experts present in Scotland, who do not participate in
> any Working Group and who might need those topics in advance to see
> which ground we are covering. I wouldn't like to get into details again,
> that we have already dicarded as not important for the development of
> version 3.
>
> Greetings from Cologne,
> yours Oliver.
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