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• Debrief on EC meeting John Towns

  1. Action items for the ACO

     1. Letters of collaboration

     2. Marker plan similar to XSEDE

• EAB Updates Shawn Strande

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• Evaluation Update Lizanne DeStefano (Unlicensed)

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• Communications UpdateDina Meek

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• Community Engagement UpdateJay Alameda

  • Update to ACCESS New User Guide (working draft at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XTsOJUZk-lY-5sGTke1L5vS_joKlEckQSE1WenyQa1w/edit )

    • Initial web presence uncovers authentication complexity (as well as non-uniformity of interfaces).

    • Good goal would be “authentication to one ACCESS site (seamlessly) authenticates to other ACCESS sites”

    • ACCESS sites use CIlogon https://www.cilogon.org/home which supports openID connect (https://www.cilogon.org/oidc ) which appears to be what is needed to get the cross-domain authentication to work (https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/175712/how-to-implement-cross-domain-auto-login-sso-without-browser-redirects-for-unlo )

    • If this seems to be a good goal (to implement cross-domain authentication), what should we be doing to help us achieve this goal?

  • Evaluation (measuring community building and engagement effectiveness):

    • Community Survey - re-engineering survey seems to make sense, especially given the diverse nature of the community - this is our one chance to make a quality connection to the various facets of the community:

      • Communities and Incentives (Background)

        • Overarching: can broadly think about communities being either consumers or providers of services and resources

        • Allocations

          • Providers:

            • Resource providers providing allocable resources and providing proposal review capacity for lower-tier awards

            • Community of reviewers for largest-tier allocations

            • Potential Incentives for Providers: Coordinated access to broad community of researchers who could benefit from your resource

          • Consumers:

            • Research community needing access to resources to support their research

            • Potential Incentives for Consumers: access to resources to be able to conduct research and education.

        • Support

          • Providers:

            • CI providers contributing to CSSN (proscribed by solicitation: Cybertraining CIP (now SCIPE CIP), others need to be incentivized to participate: others could include things like CSSI awardees, novel resource providers (that are not already integrating with ACCESS as a term of their cooperative agreement), campuses, ….

            • Campus champions

            • Match participants

            • Potential Incentives for Providers: community grant pilot, supporting conference participation through substantial contributions to the CSSN

          • Consumers:

            • Research community needing access to resources to support their research

            • Potential Incentives for Consumers: access to support to be able to conduct research and education, both self-serve access to CSSN and documentation, as well as higher level of Match support (Match Plus and Match Premier)

        • Operations

          • Providers

            • Not sure we’ve discussed this yet

          • Consumers

            • Resource providers, including novel resource providers and CC* regional computing awardees

            • Interns: students wanting to learn how to be CI professionals

            • Potential Incentives for Consumers: 

              •  Coordinated access to broad community of researchers who could benefit from your resource

        • Measurement and Metrics:

          • Providers

            • Resource providers

            • Potential incentives for providers: 

              • Provide visibility into impact of your resource for the research community

          • Consumers

            • Funding agencies

            • Resource providers

            • Potential Incentive for consumers: Access to uniform information about resource usage along many dimensions

            • Limited information for users, including job data -

    • Data Sources: what can we use to understand the community:

      • What data are we collecting today? Where is the data located?

        • XDMOD, portal databases, …

      • What enhancements to the data do we need?

      • What do we need in order to conduct studies on the data? (eg, any IRB approvals needed?)

    • Challenges and opportunities:

      • How do we reach people outside of the 50,000 we already know about, for example:

        • Resource providers that would not normally think of coming to something like access to be integrated, allocated, measured, etc

        • cyberinfrastructure providers such as software projects

        • researchers and educators that simply do not have a national, open cyberinfrastructure organization in their view as something that could help with their research and education efforts.

      • We may need to think strategically about recruiting opportunities, for example:

        • Identify key program (such as CSSI or CyberTraining) PI meetings that we could ask for an invitation, and opportunity to present and more importantly discuss opportunities for projects to have a quality relationship with ACCESS.
          

• Project Office & Tools Update Ron Payne

  • Risk register is ready for use. ACO will

• Misc items

Next Meeting: 21 December 2022?

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