Attendees:
John Towns, Amitava (Amit) Majumdar, Chuck Pavlovski, Dina Meek, Lavanya Podila, Cindy Wong, Sharon Geva, Puri Bangalore, Kim Mann Bruch, Shannon Bradley
Parking Lot
Decisions made during the meeting:
Use Decision Macro
Agenda/Notes
Updates from NSF (5 mins)
Interested in how each of us are doing in our coordination duties
As people are updating - indicate how we are doing as we interact across teams
What have we heard from stakeholders? (5 mins)
John - NAIRR interactions
Chuck - EAB last monday
Shannon - working with Science Gateways proposal for NSF 24-109 Dear Colleague Letter: NAIRR Pilot Expansion: Researcher Training, Community Outreach, and Classroom Education - which will end up mentioning ACCESS
Follow up Questions on Task
- ATT-133Getting issue details... STATUS
did one of these not long after ACCESS started - in early 2022
Sharon would like a link to that webinar
Zoom.gov on a government page
to raise awareness
Area updates (10+ mins)
ACO
wrapping up Quarterly report this week
Working to get action items in front of EC better; will be adding to EC Action Items list and they will get reviewed regularly in EC meetings.
being more deliberate on reviewing milestones and to do items weekly
What ones are making their way into the general milestones or into the risk register - some could be program wide and is everything floating up to be evaluated?
should there be a discussion of what to make visible in the general risk register or the general milestones
Chuck is working with Standing Committees and Working Groups
Risks: John will be having a discussion about risks at a program level
it is currently no one’s responsibility to manage those
Action items and To Dos - we are going through and pulling things out of older documentation to make sure things are not going between the cracks
Evaluation
will see work in Quarterly Report
preparing questions for next year’s survey for early next spring
will be meeting on Wednesday
How will interaction go with RAC?
Laura had invited RAC members to engage - and we are not sure who has responded
Amit will talk to Dave to check on update/follow up during the Wednesday meeting
Cindy has gotten RAC topic suggestions - it does include metrics again as topics for next meeting
Communications
Ticketing - there are ongoing discussions about the “doorways” to the ticketing system. These entryways are by design.
We are reviewing to make sure our doorway look and language align
SC preparation
is there a list of ACCESS adjacent activities? yes it is being gathered
including booth activities
Project Office
auditing meeting notes, quarterly meeting notes, etc. to make sure all follow up items are / were captured and are being followed up on
working on automation for reminders in the Jira task tracking system
quarterly report sections and collation as a whole
reviewing metrics and KPIs to continue to update how we report, evaluate, and track them - looking for ways to improve processes
so far it does not impact PEP
will not be changing the PEP until we are looking at program wide goals and metrics
SC preparation
Collaboration with other teams - sent quarterly meeting surveys to the agenda planning group and plan December meeting
Will send survey notes to EC
Met with Support and Operations to discuss storing their documentation on the wiki - and working on permissions settings
EAB
Nominations Open and Live: https://access-ci.org/its-time-to-nominate/ (closes Nov 27)
EAB nominations will also be promoted in the newsletters going out this and next week)
Current group ends Dec 31, 2024 - new group begins in 2025
Sharon - when EAB report comes out - Sharon will be looking to see if people misunderstood “ownership” of things regarding ticketing - this may need to be mentioned and discussed again
Next Meeting: 4th November 2024