2023-12-18 NSF - OpenCI Meeting Agenda & Summary

Agenda/Notes

1. Updates from NSF (5 minutes)
   

2. What have we heard from stakeholders? (5 minutes)

   1. ACCESS annual report, Katie's concept of the ecosystem is to develop it more, as we go through this year and put the annual report together. Let's look at the ecosystem.

   2. We are not good at identifying people who have expertise and will be able to support CI.

   3. Let's revisit this topic before the next annual report. This is targeted towards the communications team
      

3. NeurIPS Discussion (30 minutes)

   1. Good experience at NeurIPS conference, about 20,000 attendees, very technical and detailed

   2. John attended sessions on AI and applied sciences

   3. ACCESS should have some presence there next year, unsure about the booth

   4. Many of the booths on the exhibition floor were companies

   5. It was exciting to watch the AI centric CI research

   6. Find the students and what they are doing. That can be an audience.

   7. How much computational resources played into the conference? Did you get a sense of where this community lies in terms of computational resources? Many people had their own GPUs at home, die hard researchers.

   8. TomG asked JD if he had seen anything at the Community level? A lot of it was on an individual level.

   9. The extend to which RP's are involved in the review process, we should be cautious.

   10. The NAIRR pilot is supposed to indicate logistically how it can work. It is not indictive of what it might become. It's the first time that so many agencies are working together. How do you track these resources, end goal is to get funding.

   11. From this pilot, if we can get some democratization done, that's great.

   12. No issues with the NeurIPS supplement.
       

4. Other Stakeholder Updates

   1. John attended the Support team meeting, one of the things that came up was, we should start planning for PEARC 24 and SC 24

      John briefed the team about the upcoming CTAP and NAIRR

      Tom requested EAB notes from the ACCESS Quarterly Meeting.

      The RP forum bylaws will be discussed during the first EC meeting in the new year
      
      

5. Area updates (10+ minutes)

   1. ACO;

   2. Evaluation;

   3. Communications;

      1. SC23 Booth Tenders' Feedback

      2. Do Tom and Sharon want us to ship Highlights books to them? To which addresses?

   4. Community Engagement;

   5. Project Office;

   6. EAB;

6. Misc: