Meeting-20080916

TSC - Technical Steering Committee

Saturday, September 13, 2008 9:00 AM (US Pacific Time)
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Attendance

Expected

• CTO: John Quinn
• Domain Experts: Jim Case (primary), Austin Kreisler (alternate)
• Foundation & Technology: Ioana Singureanu (primary), Woody Beeler (alternate)
• Structure & Semantic Design: Calvin Beebe (primary), Gregg Seppala (alternate)
• Technical & Support Services: Ken McCaslin (primary), Helen Stevens Love (alternate)
• Affiliate: Frank Oemig,
• ARB Chair: Charlie Mead
• HQ: Karen Van Hentenryck

invited

• Charles Jaffe (CEO); Ed Hammond (HL7 Chair); Chuck Meyer (HL7 Vice Chair); Ed Tripp (newly elected TSC member to take office Jan. 2009); Ravi Natarajan (newly elected TSC member to take office Jan. 2009)

Agenda

1. (5 min) Meeting Admin
   1. Roll Call - The following individuals were present:Charlie McCay, Frank Oemig, Ed Tripp, Austin Kreisler, Jim Case, Ken McCaslin, John Quinn, Charlie Mead, Ed Hammond, Ed Hammond, Calvin Beebe, Helen STevens Love.
2. Projects
   • Incomplete lists - McCay noted that there are projects going on that aren't listed in the project list. This point arose at the steering division meetings on Monday evening. This is a positive effective of having the projects visible. TSC has a project for the roll out of the enterprise architecture
   • Business case - McCay noted that many projects don't have a business case. We likely need to begin providing this for projects
3. Enterprise architecture
   • resourcing management of change - architectual vs governance architecture. Charlie feels this is likely a two day a week project. Probably not a volunteer effort but it may be there we need to find someone to pay for this. McCay suggested that John Quinn report this as a risk when he reports on this projects. Love suggested maybe three days a week with the TSC analyst with additional resourcing from volunteers or other. Need project charter which lists project leader and the skills required.
4. IP issues - on vocabualry (will be taken off line)
   • ISO/CEN/HL7 sharing documents. This process is being worked out (table of all ISO/CEN doc and identify WGs they are relevant to). The process needs to fasted. But making this information available allows people to see what these other groups are working on and allows opportunity for comments.
5. Project Templates - This is being approved via eVote. There has been one vote and one comment. A vote was taken at the TSC lunch and the motion passed unanimously
6. Calvin's question - There was a question about informative documnets waiting 6 months before going to normative ballot. The understanding was that this was taken out. Van Hentenryck will check on this an email the TSC.
7. Value proposition for HL7 engagement - Need elevator pitch for engaging in HL7, not becoming member of HL7. this is also different from business case for projects. Hammond noted that he feels there may be multiple propositions as there are multiple audiences.
8. Future agenda item - business/clinical track - Work Groups could identify quarters where they are having a business vs clinical discussion. The Work Groups already publish agendas so participants need to pay attention to those. On the other hand, we want to attract more more than gear heads. SUGGESTION FOR FIRST TIME ATTENDEES - let them know that the agendas are published in advance. Ed Tripp noted that RCRIM has three tracks going on simultaneously to resolve some of these issues. Increasingly getting people trying to implement rather than develop standards. We may need to look at RCRIM being a best practice. May be useful to put a code on the agenda to differentiate business from technical discussions. Business, technical and ballot reconciliation. McCaslin suggested putting icons on the agenda templates collected from the co-chairs. McCaslin is providing the first-time attendee sessions and he can easily incorporate this.

Meeting adjourned at 1:35 pm.