# BMI Council meeting 2025-06 **URL:** \ **Category:** BMI\ **Tags:** event\ **Created:** [May 29, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.csdms.io/t/bmi-council-meeting-2025-06/146 "2025-05-29T16:38:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mdpiper](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/forum.csdms.io/mdpiper/32/1_2.png) [@mdpiper](https://forum.csdms.io/u/mdpiper)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.csdms.io/t/bmi-council-meeting-2025-06/146/1 "2025-05-29T16:38:35Z")
The [BMI Council](https://bmi.csdms.io/en/stable/council.html) is a group of volunteers from the community who help [guide the development](https://bmi.csdms.io/en/stable/governance.html) of the [Basic Model Interface](https://bmi.csdms.io) (BMI). The Council meets regularly through the year. The next meeting is Monday, June 2, 9 am MDT over Zoom. The agenda: - welcome new Council member @BSchilperoort - parallel BMI - extension framework for BMI If you’re interested in learning about, and helping to shape, the future of BMI, please consider joining us for the meeting. Message me here or email me and I’ll send you the meeting link. ---
**Author:** ![samharrison7](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/forum.csdms.io/samharrison7/32/9_2.png) [@samharrison7](https://forum.csdms.io/u/samharrison7)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.csdms.io/t/bmi-council-meeting-2025-06/146/2 "2025-05-29T17:20:34Z")
I would loved to have joined for the meeting, but unfortunately I’m at an all day workshop in Brussels and I suspect we’ll go on past 9am MDT! I’d be interested to hear back afterwards though if there are notes or a recording 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mdpiper](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/forum.csdms.io/mdpiper/32/1_2.png) [@mdpiper](https://forum.csdms.io/u/mdpiper)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.csdms.io/t/bmi-council-meeting-2025-06/146/3 "2025-05-29T17:41:58Z")
Yes, we’ll post meeting notes here! @PhilMiller did a really nice job last time (thank you, Phil!). ---
**Author:** ![dorchard](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/forum.csdms.io/dorchard/32/8_2.png) [@dorchard](https://forum.csdms.io/u/dorchard)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2025, 11:28am UTC](https://forum.csdms.io/t/bmi-council-meeting-2025-06/146/4 "2025-05-30T11:28:50Z")
I’d love to join and am free. ---
**Author:** ![mdpiper](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/forum.csdms.io/mdpiper/32/1_2.png) [@mdpiper](https://forum.csdms.io/u/mdpiper)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2025, 2:13am UTC](https://forum.csdms.io/t/bmi-council-meeting-2025-06/146/5 "2025-05-31T02:13:06Z")
A bit tangential, but a nice [blog post](https://www.anildash.com/2025/05/20/mcp-web20-20/) by Anil Dash on standards and interoperability (in the internets). ---
**Author:** ![PhilMiller](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/forum.csdms.io/philmiller/32/40_2.png) [@PhilMiller](https://forum.csdms.io/u/PhilMiller)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.csdms.io/t/bmi-council-meeting-2025-06/146/6 "2025-06-02T15:03:48Z")
[https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3615318.3615319](https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3615318.3615319) Is a great reference on the benefits of ABI compatibility, and the effort involved in attaining it. ---
**Author:** ![mdpiper](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/forum.csdms.io/mdpiper/32/1_2.png) [@mdpiper](https://forum.csdms.io/u/mdpiper)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.csdms.io/t/bmi-council-meeting-2025-06/146/7 "2025-06-02T18:11:18Z")
# Meeting notes 12 participants. @gregtucker reminded us of the [BMI governance document](https://bmi.csdms.io/en/stable/governance.html), emphasizing how we can move forward with [consensus](https://bmi.csdms.io/en/stable/governance.html#consensus-based-decision-making-by-the-community). Scott Peckham presented his work on the concept of variable roles in BMI. This addition to BMI was proposed to address how models in the NOAA NextGen framework could be serialized and checkpointed. Scott’s presentation spawned a lively discussion on what would constitute an extension to BMI. (See the working document in [this post](https://forum.csdms.io/t/bmi-version-3-roadmap/105/9).) @gregtucker brought the discussion back to what should be in [BMI v3.0](https://forum.csdms.io/t/bmi-version-3-roadmap/105/1). It was nicely summarized by @Nels: > Getting mechanics for supporting generic extensions first would allow some significant compatibility and room to explore To this end, @Nels and @PhilMiller volunteered to start scoping out a technical specification for BMI extensions. They’ll present their work at the next meeting. The next BMI Council meeting will be in August.