2025-01-27 NSF - OpenCI Meeting Agenda & Summary

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Agenda/Notes

1. Updates from NSF (5 mins)

   1. Awaiting guidance on how a number of Executive Orders will be implemented by NSF.

   2. They are mostly on hold - (not proceeding until guidance) - no awards

   3. All IPAs will be in office as of Feb 27 - Puri will have to be in office
      

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

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3. NSF Meeting Tasks To Do

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4. Area updates (10+ mins)

   1. ACO (John)

      1. Quarterly Report submitted Saturday morning

      2. Digging out from being off-line last week

      3. We are the only team that has not sent in blackout dates

   2. Evaluation (Amit)

      1. Staff Survey out and closes Friday, Jan. 31 (open for 3 weeks)

      2. Community survey out as of today, closes Friday, Feb. 21 (4 weeks)

      3. RP survey in-progress

   3. Communications (Dina, Kim)

      1. Newsletters

         1. Inside ACCESS goes out this Thursday

         2. ACCESS Advance goes out next Thursday

      2. Web

         1. User Testing by Persona underway this and next week

   4. Project Office (Lavanya, Shannon)

      1. Working on new processes - on-boarding for ACO first draft complete, tracking ACCESS wide Metrics

      2. When should we discuss the parking lot: hold a workshop looking at integrating quantum computing into regular computing environments

   5. EAB (Chuck, Cindy)

      1. EC slide deck in progress for the orientation (Cindy assembling)

      2. Orientation scheduled this Friday at Noon EST


Next Meeting: 3rd Feb 2025