Concept Award PI Meeting Outcomes: Virtual Presentation to the EarthCube Community

1. Earthcube Governance FrameworK: A Proposal to the Community Concept Award PI Meeting Outcomes: Virtual Presentation to the EarthCube Community September 13, 2012

2. Governance Framework • Implementation of Roadmap • Foundation for EarthCube entity(ies) to govern (i.e., manage and organize) EarthCube • Foundational governance functions • Non-prescriptive guiding principles • General long-term recommendations • DID NOT recommend specific governance model(s) • Intention is that the interim prototype governing body will determine most effective governance model(s)

3. Initial Governance Functions for the Governing Body(ies) • Identify and Implement Vision, Mission, and Goals • Engage and Coordinate Across Community • Management: Create and Implement By-Laws and Charter • Develop and Maintain Viable Architecture and Concept of Operations that Enable Realization of Goals and Objectives of EarthCube Vision

4. EarthCube Governance Guiding Principles • Serve advancement of interdisciplinary science through collaboration among community members and with other CI initiatives • Rely on open, transparent processes; vet and inform decisions through active community engagement • Encourage environmentally sustainable processes and practices • Support development that draws from best practices based on interoperability and reuse of resources • Strive for free and open sharing of data, information, software and services • Evolvewith changing technologies, practices and user needs while remaining robust

5. EarthCube Governance Recommendations • Interim prototype governance body to write and implement EarthCube charter • Umbrella entity to coordinate governance functions across EarthCube • Focus on the development, operation and maintenance of EarthCube-wide services and services that enable existing cyberinfrastructure components to interoperate effectively within EarthCube • Adopt and maintain an effective enterprise-level architecture, manage risk • Discover and encourage cross-domain science priorities • Function as a community service provider, NOTacompetitor to infrastructure

6. Community Building and engagement Program 6-month plan to vet governance framework and engage Geoscience and IT (external to current EarthCube) communities • Gather feedback via EarthCube Stakeholder Alignment Survey • Create EarthCube explanatory materials • Publish articles, including scholarly journals • Reach out via social media, in-person and virtual meetings • Gather EarthCube website requirements • Incorporate feedback into updated Governance Framework - early 2013

7. Governance Framework Governance Framework (PDF) • http://earthcube.ning.com/group/governance/forum/topics/earthcube-governance-framework-a-proposal-to-the-community?xg_source=activity Governance Framework (Google Doc) • Comment on the draft at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UjOwPYBnI4uihlZsh57X1DK6MAknPa_wmlQK3UXMf5I/edit

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9. Emerging Governance Concept: 3 Tiers of Governance Enterprise-level services Locally optimized community community Locally operated & maintained community

10. Emerging Governance Concept: CA PI Architecture

11. Emerging Governance Concept: Cross-Domain Interoperability

12. governance Framework Contributors EarthCube Governance Ad-hoc Steering Committee • M. Lee Allison, Chair, Arizona Geological Survey • Tim Ahern, IRIS • David Arctur, UT Austin • Jim Bowring, College of Charleston • Gary Crane, SURA • Cecelia DeLuca, NOAA • Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University • Carroll Hood, Raytheon • Hannes Leetaru, Illinois Geological Survey • Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University • Chris MacDermaid, Colorado State University/CIRA • George Percivall, OGC • Mohan Ramamurthy, Unidata • Erin Robinson, ESIP • Ilya Zaslavsky, SDSC Arizona Geological Survey Staff • Genevieve Pearthree • Kim Patten Additional EarthCube Contributors • EarthCube Brokering Concept Team: Jay Pearlman • EarthCube Stakeholder Survey: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld

13. Our definition of governance Governance refers to the processes, structure and organizational elements that determine, within an organization or system of organizations, how power is exercised, how stakeholders have their say, how decisions are made, and how decision makers are held accountable.

14. Process Implement Steps 1 & 2 of the Governance Roadmap • August 31, 2012: Determine appropriate governance framework to meet community needs and NSF goals for successful cyberinfrastructure • Governance Framework just released Sept. 4, 2012 • Posted to EarthCube Governance Group Ning Site • Up to Beginning of 2013: Engage Earth, Information, and Computer scientists for input on the governance framework

15. Target Communities • Atmospheric Scientists • Geoscientists • Ocean Scientists • Computer Scientists and Software Developers • Information and Communication Technologists • Information Scientists • Business and Industry • Government Agencies • International Community

16. Questions to the Audience • What functions do you feel EC governance should carry out? NO – we have these • What requirements do you have for the EarthCube website? Do this later – this is not the right meeting -