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State of the Future Index - Software Tool/System Development Project Page (02)

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Most Critical Task(s) At Hand: (04)

Get funded (088)

prepare and submit grant proposal to (US) NSF (0123)
send grant proposal to KFAS for a Kuwait SOFI project (0116)
invite a European Node to champion the EC grant proposal for European SOFI work (0117)
invite the Beijing Node to obtain grant for China SOFI work (0118)
invite Latin America Node(s) to champion SOFI work for Latin American countries (0119)

Review prototype and make second iteration on system design (071)
resume regular work pace (099)
start work on a SOFI ontology (0100)

What's New: (07)

Aug-2007: putting together a team to work on submitting grant proposal(s) to NSF for funding SOFI System R&D work (0122)
Jan-2007: a project plan and a submission of the SOFI system project for Kuwait - dubbed SOFI(2) - was put together and submitted (0120)
2003-07-19: As part of the Millennium Project panel presenting on "Futures Research Around the World," PeterYim made a presentation of the project at the World Future Society's Annual Conference - [WorldFuture-2003] - in San Francisco, California, USA. [... presentation] (0109)
2003-09-18: Publication of "[Futures Research Metholodology v2.0]" by JerryGlenn and TedGordon is officially released, on CD-ROM media. Among the content, Chapter 22 featured TedGordon's "State of the Future (SOFI) Method", and on Chapter 23 "Full Scale Implementation of SOFI", co-authored by PeterYim, JonathanCheyer and TedGordon. (0111)
2003-07-17: PeterYim made a presentation, titled "The Big Picture" about the project to the [MP-Planning Committee Meeting in San Francisco], California, USA. [... presentation] (0110)
2003-06-12: BoNewman joins the team. He'll be embarking on a Knowledge Flow Analysis with the purpose to study/refine the next-stage system architecture and identify critical ontological issues along with KurtConrad and LisaColvin. (0107)
2003-05-29: The SOFI and CIM3-CWE development team members in the San Francisco Bay Area met at Doug Engelbart's home in Atherton California. [details] (0101)
2003-05-05: LisaColvin and KurtConrad joins the team, and participated at today's regular team conference call. They will both be involved in developing our SOFI ontology. (0103)
2003-02-13: PeterYim presented the project, its status, and demonstrated the prototype software to the MP-Planning Committee in Washington D.C. [... presentation] (073)
2003-01-23: DarrenHaas joins team in U/I and web design work (072)
2002-12-29: HalHildebrand takes leave from SOFI work [...details] (060)
2002-12-23: AdamCheyer posted a prototype of the interactive visual basic client front-end [... more] (058)
2002-12-19: JohnBear and EricGarlick joined the development team (059)
2002-12-18: High Level [System Architecture] Diagram (v1.0) posted (055)
Key decisions on [Open Data] and [Open Source License] made at the 2002-12-17 SOFI Advisory Committee conference call. (05)

Key Date(s) to Note: (010)

SOFI Advisory Committee conference call for Sep. 2003 to be on Wed 2003-09-17 13:30 EDT (0112)
Early October 2003 - JerryGlenn's trip to Kuwait (0113)
2nd Wednesday of each month - regular SOFI Advisory Committee conference call (0114)

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Project Mission (092)

To build on the previous research of the Millennium Project, including the spreadsheet model, algorithm and collection of data, and progressively develop it into an Internet based futures study and analysis tool supported over an open knowledge system. (093)

Project Work-in-Progress (014)

Project Document: http://mp.cim3.net/file/project/mp-sofi-sd/home.html (015)
Software-in-progress: http://mp.cim3.net:2180/sofi/ (077)

userID="guest"; password="guest"; (078)
needs client software -- email [Peter Yim] if you need that. (079)

Discussion Forum (016)

Business & Management Discussion: http://mp.cim3.net/forum/mp-sofi-sd (017)

High Level Technical Discussion: http://mp.cim3.net/forum/mp-sofi-dev (018)

Low Level Technical & Implementation Discussion: http://mp.cim3.net/forum/mp-sofi-imp (065)

Project Plan (019)

[Project Tasklist and Gantt Chart] (020)

The Team (021)

SOFI Advisory Committee (022)

TedGordon (chair) (023)
JerryGlenn (024)
JackGottsman (025)
PeterYim (mp-sofi-sd Project Director) (026)

Architecture Advisory Panel (027)

Members of the Phase-1 Developent Team (032)

AdamCheyer (Oct.2002~May.2003) (050)
DarrenHaas (064)
EricGarlick (Developer) (051)
JohnBear (052)
JonathanCheyer (Tech Lead) (033)
MaryKeitelman (Oct.2002~Jan.2003) (034)
PeterYim (Project Director) (035)
LisaColvin (0104)
KurtConrad (0105)
BoNewman (0108)

System Architecture & Design Reference (036)

SofiSystemArchitecture (037)

SofiSystemArchitectureBrainstorm (041)

SofiSystemDesign (038)

UserRole (062)

[Users and UseCaseScenarios] (040)

OntologySofi (039)

SofiSystemGlossary (067)

Data and Content (083)

Numeric Content and SofiData (084)
Text-based Content (085)

TipOfDay (086)

Documentation (089)

Public accessible [MP-SOFI-SD Project Document] package (090)
Team-only access to [Futures Research Methodology version 2.0] ([ISBN: 0-9722051-1-X]; published July 2003; see[release message].) (091)

in particular, note [Chapter 22 - SOFI Methodology] and [Chapter 23 - SOFI System] (0115)

Meetings (042)

2007-12-12 SOFI NSF proposal team weekly conference call - SofiMeetingCall_2007_12_12 (0136)
2007-12-05 SOFI NSF proposal team weekly conference call - SofiMeetingCall_2007_12_05 (0135)
2007-11-28 SOFI NSF proposal team weekly conference call - SofiMeetingCall_2007_11_28 (0131)
2007-11-21 SOFI NSF proposal team weekly conference call - SofiMeetingCall_2007_11_21 (0132)
2007-11-14 SOFI NSF proposal team weekly conference call - SofiMeetingCall_2007_11_14 (0133)
2007-11-07 SOFI NSF proposal team weekly conference call - SofiMeetingCall_2007_11_07 (0134)
2007-10-31 SOFI NSF proposal team weekly conference call - SofiMeetingCall_2007_10_31 (0129)
2007-10-24 SOFI NSF proposal team weekly conference call - SofiMeetingCall_2007_10_24 (0130)
2007-10-17 SOFI NSF proposal team weekly conference call - SofiMeetingCall_2007_10_17 (0128)
2007-10-10 draft review session 3 of 3 - convening new team to put together proposals to NSF - SofiMeetingCall_2007_10_10 (0128)
2007-10-03 draft review session 2 of 3 - convening new team to put together proposals to NSF - SofiMeetingCall_2007_10_03 (0124)
2007-09-26 draft review session 1 of 3 - convening new team to put together proposals to NSF - SofiMeetingCall_2007_09_26 (0125)
2007-09-19 proposal content session 2 of 2 - converging on what goes into the proposals for NSF - SofiMeetingCall_2007_09_19 (0126)
2007-09-12 proposal content session 1 of 2 - converging on what goes into the proposals for NSF - SofiMeetingCall_2007_09_12 (0127)
2007-09-05 strategy session 2 of 2 - convening new team to put together proposal(s) to NSF - SofiMeetingCall_2007_09_05 (0124)
2007-08-26 strategy session 1 of 2 - convening new team to put together proposal(s) to NSF - SofiMeetingCall_2007_08_29 (0125)
2007-08-15: conference call to discuss new possibilities on SOFI (and possibly other collaborations), specifically ref. opportunities with NSF and NASA-Ontolog - SofiMeetingCall_20070815 (0121)
The development team member in the San Francisco Bay Area met at Doug Engelbart's home Thu 2003-05-29 6:30~9:30pm - See: [preparation and proceedings] (0102)
The project and a demo of the software implementation to-date was presented to the Millennium Project Planning Committee in Washington DC on Feb.13 & 14, 2003 by PeterYim and the rest of the SOFI Advisory Committee. The presentation can be found at http://mp.cim3.net/file/project/mp-sofi-sd/presentation/mp-sofi-sd-P1.htm (080)
Team conference call 2003-02-11 evening to sync up for the 2003-02-13 presentation and demo to the MP-Planning Committee (076)
Development team met at Adam Cheyer's home in Oakland, CA on 2003-01-26 (for the Super Bowl Game) and [defined a good chunk of the screen flows] for the Phase-1 product. (069)
Development Team met at Doug Engelbart's home in Atherton on 2003-01-13 while Jerry Glenn was in town in the SF Bay Area. (087)
Development Team status report meeting and Holiday Season party at Doug's -- 2002-12-18 (see [pictures]) (053)
Development Team Meeting - 2002-11-25 - Max's Opera Cafe (Burlingame, CA) (043)
[MP-SOFI-DEV_Meeting_2002-11-18] at Doug's (Atherton, CA) (044)
MP-SODI-SD Project Kick-off Meeting and Architectural Design Workshop -- 2002-11-08 -- SRI (Menlo Park, CA) (045)

SOFI Advisory Committee - Monthly Meeting / Conference Call (046)

2002-10-22 & 23 conference calls (047)
2002-11-26 conference call (048)
[SOFI_Advisory_Committee_2002-12-17_Conference_Call] (049)
2003-04-16 conference call. (see [notes]) (097)

Some of us on the Team, a picture from the meeting at Doug Engelbart's home on 18-Dec-2002: (094)

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In the picture above (from left to right, clockwise round the table) are: DougEngelbart, AdamCheyer, JackPark, DavidLeibs, JohnBear, MaryKeitelman, JackGottsman, (ArnoldYim and LydiaLeibs observing from behind), PeterYim and JonathanCheyer. (096)