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RAMPS: Stephen Deems (v), Dave Hart
MATCH: Shelley Knuth (v),
Alana RomanellaCONECT:
Tim Boerner(v),Leslie FroeschlMMS:
Tom Furlani (v), Joe WhiteOpenCI: John Towns (v), Shawn Strande, Lavanya Podila, Lisa Kaczmarczyk, Shannon Bradley
NSF: Tom Gulbransen, Sharon Geva
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No Working Group Updates
Approval of summaries from prior EC meetings John Towns (5 mins)
Program Milestone CheckJohn Towns (10 mins)
Action item for the awardees to update their program milestones
Reminder:Do not edit "Dashboard" tab, please edit "ACCESS program milestones" tab as needed
Propose dividing milestones in sheet in a different manner?
EC sponsor will keep the items updated
Personas Shelley Knuth (10 mins)
I think we are going about the idea of personas all wrong, and would like to share some thoughts on why and how perhaps we could do it better. Also following up on Support leading a personas working group and soliciting people to join.
we should have home page - and have a certain persona you have identified yourself as being - click thru roadmap - --- implementation of this will be difficult from a user perspective
Grad Student + PI - atmospheric science + engineering --- can happen
all roads lead to the same destination - everyone needs an allocation
need to determine how to talk to general public and let this determine what we put on the website
Talk to the communities we are welcoming in to determine what will help us understand them better
then design front page from that information
Personas should all be coordinated under what Shelley is doing
request from web site to see which personas we are going to do
John will check with Dina - not sure where requests are coming from
single label for individual won’t work - it is much more nuanced
we need to have a change in how we are representing ourselves to the community
need 1 or 2 people from each track to participate in SC
Tom - maybe abandon what kind of person you are completely - and figure out what we need to ask to get to an allocation req, a help req, or a roadmap - since people end up at the same subset of targets - is a functional thing not a functionality
Should Persona help navigate the website - or should it be bigger that the web site? Shelley believes it will end up being bigger
Problem: what we are providing to existing communities is what we need AND if broadening participation is our goal - we should be providing what they need to bring them into the fold
who do we want to be for which set of people?
We need to have an interface
someone new to needing research infrastructure
someone who has been doing this for a while - fast path to get there
EC to consider shifting the in-person meetings from June & December to September & March John Towns (10 mins)
The key points being:
Both June and December already tend to be difficult/busy times for travel for people, so adding an in-person meeting is more challenging then than (some) other times;
Many of us will already see each other in July (PEARC) and November (SC), so we see value in spreading out the in-person interactions across the year.
If we make this change, we may need to consider moving the December in-person meeting to March due to funding and the project anniversary date. I’m not convinced skipping December is a good idea at this stage.
Determine next ACCESS in-person meeting location (5 mins)
This will be a combined ACCESS In-person meeting + EAB meeting
Tentative Dates :4th December – 8th December (Tentative)
4th and 5th December (ACCESS Quarterly Meeting)
6th and 7th December (EAB Meeting)
Location - someplace warm?
Program-wide Responses to Cognizant Program Officer Observations - Observation #1 John Towns (10 mins)
Only remaining item not resolved
Difference of opinion on how to approach the response, including:
focus on raising visibility to researchers and RPs not involved with ACCESS
need to focus on what we do since that seems to bee poorly understood
EAB meeting - during Virtual Meeting in Sept - last two hours of second day? - need to decide
Informational Items (10 mins)
Allocations Stephen Deems
Resource Filters are now live on the Allocations site.
Still working to update resources in CiDeR with appropriate tags.
New website testing is underway!
MATCH Shelley Knuth
CONECT Tim Boerner
CONECT team is in a planning retreat this week in world-famous Rosemont, IL so doesn’t have representation on today’s call. We will check notes after the meeting!
MMS Tom Furlani
OpenCI John Towns
EAB members generally agree to name/elect a Chair and Co-Chair.
NOAA request for ACCESS presentation at September meeting. ACO can field this, but should we collectively route these to CB&E? https://www.noaa.gov/ai/events/5th-noaa-ai-workshop-2023
Progress being made on Program-wide Goals; update coming in the next day or two.
Misc Topics: Tom Gulbransen rotating EC moderation?
Reference: EC Backlog & Action Items or Executive Council Backlog Overview
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