[Esip-dds] DDS update

[Anne Wilson]

Hi DDSers,

A quick update -

Carol and I have been working the invitations to serve on the panel. 
With travel restrictions, it's a challenge!  But the panel is shaping 
up.  We have two accepted invitations to serve:

Dan Baker, Director LASP, Chair of Heliophysics Decadal Survey
Stan Ahalt, Director, RENCI

We have invited and expect to hear soon from Todd Vision, Director of 
Informatics and Associate Director, National Evolutionary Synthesis 
Center (NESCent), Professor of Biology, UNC.

We have also invited Michael Tiemann, Vice President of Open Source 
Affairs at Red Hat Inc., but are getting less response.   These latter 
two are local to Chapel Hill, fwiw.

So, we may have an opportunity to invite one or two others, depending on 
the outcomes of these last two.

As a reminder, we'll have our monthly telecon next week on Thursday the 
20th, (and *not* the 4th Thursday of the month, as usually scheduled). 
That will be our last telecon before the meeting.  I'll send a reminder 
about the telecon next week before the meeting.

"And that's the way it is."

Cheers,

Anne