Summary of VOEvent session

[Rob Seaman]

>> Hey Rick - are you going to be at SPIE?
>
> Wasn't planning on it, but give me a good reason....

Conference AS107, Observatory Operations III, has a time domain focus  
this time around.  We'll be chatting up both the VOEvent side and the  
robotic telescope side, but especially engaging the large aperture  
human-mediated observatories in a colloquy over time domain /  
transient response / target-of-opportunity topics for just about the  
first time.  (As well as the usual range of topics in the dozen other  
conferences, "software and cyberinfrastructure", etc.)

Call for papers at http://spie.org/x13662.xml, abstracts due 14  
December 2009.

> There was mucho confusion/arguments about just what Utypes are,  
> aren't and should be.  Everything I heard made it sound as if they  
> are just specialized vocabularies and Norman pointed out that a  
> vocabulary namespace would enable everyone to agree on and have  
> documentation for a common set more easily than creating things  
> separately and then trying to match between attempts afterwards.

A radical idea...

Rob