Sept 2024 ACCESS Quarterly Meeting

Day 1: Wednesday, Sept 25

Zoom Coordinates: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/89296504559?pwd=aaXafn8JaX4ZJFeBxS8bOaduzSBpau.1&from=addon

Times (ET)

Duration

Session

Session Goals

Session Type

Plenary/Parallel

Session Lead(s)

Note Taker

7:30 am - 8:00 am

30 mins

Breakfast

Social Networking

8:00 am - 8:15 am

15 mins

Welcome and Review Agenda
Introduction of Lisa and her purpose (2 mins)
NSF Update (5 mins)

Share Information

Plenary

John Towns

None

Meeting Notes

8:15 am - 8:45 am

30 mins

Icebreaker Trivia

Start the meeting off on a fun, lighthearted note

Social Networking

Plenary

PSC Staff Trivia Expert

None

Meeting Notes

8:45 am - 9:00 am

15 mins

Break

Social Networking

9:00 am - 10:00 am

60 mins

What's Everyone Developing Pt. III

Allocations (Nathan Tolbert)

Support (Andrew Pasquale)
-Open OnDemand (David Hudak)

Operations (JP Navarro)

Metrics for Cloudbank, Path, and Academic HPC (Ryan Rathsam)

An update from each ACCESS team on the developments (software, web, etc.) that are being worked on within the next 3-6 months to identify further areas for collaboration.

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Plenary

JP Navarro

Holly Klinesmith

Meeting Notes

Slides

10:00 am - 10:45 am

45 mins

Student practical experiences in ACCESS

Share practical experiences (i.e. student projects) of students working for or within ACCESS program areas

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Parallel A

Winona Snapp-Childs

Metrics (Gregory Dean)

Joe White

Meeting Notes

10:45 am - 11:30 am

45 mins

Evaluation SC: Program-Wide Metrics Update

Discuss proposed updates to ACCESS-wide metrics

Collect Input

Parallel A

Dave Hart and TBD

Cindy Wong

Meeting Notes

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

30 mins

Report on the changes of ACCESS user diversity

Share reporting on various diversity measures of the people using ACCESS resources for research and how they have changed over time since XSEDE. This includes scientific study areas, geographic location, and institution classification.

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Parallel A

Aaron Weeden

Joe White

Meeting Notes

10:00 am - 12:00 PM

120 mins

Building Modern User Interfaces with JavaScript Components
Registation Form

Component-based JavaScript frameworks like React and Preact, followed hands-on exercises on render loop, JSX, and hooks. Basic familiarity with JavaScript syntax is helpful, but any level of programming experience welcome.

Workshop/Training

Parallel B

Zoom Invite: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83019470183?pwd=NcBzQNw0a7fNbntgCCebzyFV28VLOu.1&from=addon

Matt Yoder & Rebecca Eveland

None

Meeting Notes

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

60 mins

Lunch

Social Networking

1:00 pm - 1:45 pm

45 mins

Democratization Plan Review

The DEI (Democratization) WG will present an overview of their plan, address questions, and receive feedback.

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Plenary

Agbeli Ameko

DEI WG Member

Meeting Notes

1:45 pm - 2:15 pm

30 mins

Infrastructure Integration Badges

Introduce ACCESS projects to the badging work in the Infrastructure Porfolio Expansion SC and Operational Support teams

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Plenary

JP Navarro and Joe White

TBD

Meeting Notes

2:15 pm - 2:30 pm

15 mins

Break

Social Networking

2:30 pm - 3:15 pm

45 mins

How can we better collaborate?

We've run across a few instances where multiple teams are doing similar things. How can we better collaborate to be better for ACCESS as a whole?

Collect Input

Plenary

Shelley Knuth

TBD

Meeting Notes

3:15 pm - 4:00 pm

45 mins

Researcher-facing cybersecurity best practice documentation collaboration

Let's avoid duplicated effort and inconsistencies in researcher-facing documentation for cybersecurity best practices. I'd like to establish a cross-award team to coordinate, publish and update such documentation on a regular basis, with roles, responsibilities, and procedures clearly defined.

Make a Decision

Plenary

Derek Simmel

TBD - Holly?

Meeting Notes

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm

45 mins

Recap from the Resource Provider Workshop held earlier in September

Report out, and what did we learn? What will we do moving forward to improve relations with RPs

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Plenary

Shelley or Alana

TBD

Meeting Notes

4:45 pm - 5:00 pm

15 mins

Closing remarks + Adjourn

John Towns

Meeting Notes

Day 2: Thursday, Sept. 26

Zoom Coordinates: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/89296504559?pwd=aaXafn8JaX4ZJFeBxS8bOaduzSBpau.1&from=addon

Times (ET)

Duration

Session

Session Goals

Session Type

Plenary/Parallel

Session Lead

Note Taker

7:30 am - 8:00 am

30 mins

Breakfast

Social Networking

8:00 am - 8:30 am

30 mins

Welcome, day 1 recap, and Review Agenda

Share Information

John Towns

Meeting Notes

8:30 am - 9:15 am

45 mins

Introducing Persona-based Web Landing Pages

ASSUMING these will be ready to unveil, walk through the new pages so all are familiar and can help point people to as needed

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Plenary

Dina Meek

TBD - member of the Web Presence Standing Committee

Meeting Notes

9:15 am - 10:15 am

60 mins

Resource Catalog Update

Updates on the progress that's been made since the initial session in June. A preview of v.1.

Collect Input

Plenary

Matt Yoder

Deems

Meeting Notes

10:15 am - 10:30 am

15 mins

Break

Social Networking

10:30 am - 11:00 am

30 mins

Innovative Pilots

Collect Input

Plenary

Stephen Deems

TBD

Meeting Notes

11:00 am - 11:30 am

30 mins

NAIRR Working Groups - Connection Point

Is there anything the existing working groups want to discuss with regard to pain points, things that are going well, etc. It could be good for the working groups to come prepared with things to discuss from our teams/working groups

Brainstorming

Plenary

NAIRR WG Leads - who would this be

TBD

Meeting Notes

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

30 mins

OPEN (brainstorm, small group discussions and/or any topics from the past 1.5 days that require deeper discussion?)

Brainstorming

Plenary

needs a lead

TBD

Meeting Notes

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

30 mins

(Closing remarks and Meeting Adjourns) Boxed Lunches

Meeting Notes