June 16, 2005 Meeting Minutes
GIScience Commons SWAT
Action items/meeting minutes from June 16
Location: Seaton 164H
In attendance: Eric Bernard, Rick Chubb, Dave Debusman, Karen Garrett, Rebecca Gould, Shawn Hutchinson, Ron Jones, Curtis Kastner, and Dave Steward
Review of action items from June 2
- Introduced new members including: Karen, Ron and Curtis
- Discussed additional members ? Eric talked to Dean Law who will either serve as an ex-officio member or appoint another individual to serve.
Action item: Rebecca will phone Brad DeGrott, Denis Mederios, Brian Niehoff, Todd Donavan and Dale Blasi and ask if they would like to participate. (Note: Dale Blasi?s name was clarified in the minutes). The SWAT indicated that they would trade-off attendance during this busy summer season. - The SWAT website is: http://swat.gis.ksu.edu/
Action item: Rebecca will send the Campus Learning Spaces article as a PDF to Rick for placing on the website. - Discussed circulation of the proposal. Eric, Rick, John, and Shawn will serve as the lead authors on the GIS proposal. During all stages of development, they will share the GIS proposal electronically with the SWAT. When the proposal is closer to final draft form it will be shared with the GIS Steering Committee.
- The tour of the Fort Riley Conference Center is June 20. We will leave from the Hale Library parking lot at 8 am. During the tour if we are allowed to take pictures, these will be posted on the GIS website.
The SWAT then brainstormed the uses, expectations and wish list for the GIS Commons. Eric proposed the following mission statement: The GIS Commons will be a state-of-the-art learning environment for geographic information science. He also indicated that the core components of GIS include: the science of GIS, GPS, remote sensing, thematic imaging and telemetry. A PowerPoint presentation has been developed for another meeting that further explains GIS. This will be posted to the website.
Rebecca requested that we add research to the mission statement, i.e. ?state-of-the-art learning and research environment??.
USES OF THE GIS COMMONS
Conferencing facility for multidisciplinary teams including faculty and students on/off campus. This facility should be a model for interdisciplinary work.
Lab environment for 10-20 workstations
Offices for Rick Chubb, visiting faculty
EXPECTATIONS FOR THE GIS COMMONS
Conferencing facility including on/off campus connectivity
Back up power for the facility
PC environment with dual boot Linux/Windows machines
Potential as an Emergency Response Center ? ability to respond to a variety of emergencies i.e. weather, biohazards, etc.
Mobile, flexible space and furnishings
University-wide facility
Secure
WISH LIST FOR THE GIS COMMONS
Emergency power
Central HVAC
Window treatment that filters UV (Action item: Dave will ask Chevron about UV issues)
Wired and wireless capabilities (file size might inhibit the ability to transmit via wireless)
FURTHER DISCUSSION ABOUT SPACE
Dave requested that we divide the space into stationary components and flexible elements
Stationary
Two offices ? Rick Chubb and post-doctoral faculty/visiting scientist
Utility closet ? wiring, GPS equipment storage
Kitchenette ? sink, refrigerator, coffee maker, and microwave
Flexible
10-20 workstations
Other discussion included the development of online modules that could be incorporated into numerous courses around campus.
Agenda items for June 23
- Tour of existing GISSAL
- Review of June 16 action items
Eric will find a room to meet
Rick will see if other universities (Penn State, Utah State, UC Santa Barbara, and University Nevada Las Vegas) have pictures of their GIS space that we could link from on our website.
Dave will ask check on the estimate for treated windows and internal blinds - Continued discussion of brainstorming for space