2023-04-03 NSF - OpenCI Meeting Agenda & Summary

Attendees:

Present: ~~Lizanne DeStefano~~, John Towns, Dina Meek, Tom Gulbransen, Lavanya Podila, Jay Alameda, Cynthia Dillon, Shawn Strande, Cindy Wong, Ron Payne

Agenda/Notes

New inputs or feedback from community, teams, or NSF John Towns (5 mins)
NSF Annual Review Meeting Draft Agenda John Towns (5 mins)
Time (EDT) Topic
10:00-10:10am NSF-OAC/Project Welcome & Introductions
10:10-10:40am Session 1: OpenCI/ACO Project Opening Remarks (30 mins) (Towns)
10:40-11:20am Session 2: Program Governance & Advisory Support (40 mins) (Towns/Strande)
11:20-11:30am Break (10 mins)
11:30am-12:15pm Session 3: Communication & Outreach (45 mins); (Meek)
12:15-1:00pm Session 4: Community Building & Engagement (45 mins) (Alameda)
1:00-2:00pm Break for lunch (60 mins)
2:00-2:45pm Session 5: Evaluation (45 mins) (DeStefano)
2:45-3:15pm Session 6: Project Finances (30 mins) (Payne)
3:15-3:30pm Break (15 mins)
3:30-4:00pm Q&A session (30 mins)
4:00pm Wrap-up and close
Evaluations Update Lizanne DeStefano (Unlicensed) (10 mins)
1. Foci/scope of the week -
2. Open or Emerging Risks/Issues
3. Successes or achievements
Communications Update Dina Meek (10 mins)
1. Foci/scope of the week
  1. Website – Finalizing Resource Provider page to present to RP Forum next week
  2. Events/PEARC – Presenting Comms plan to the Communications team for feedback
  3. Newsletters – The ACCESS Advance comes out this week
2. Open or Emerging Risks/Issues – Review process for training videos (John to bring to the EC)
3. Successes or achievements
Community Engagement Update Jay Alameda (10 mins)
1. Foci/scope of the week
  1. Just completed Events:
    - Boise State (March 28-29, 2023: Research Computing Days March 28-29 ) Keynote - Tom Gulbransen
      - Feedback from the event
    - CASC (March 28-30, 2023): Upcoming Events “What is ACCESS” - John Towns
      - Feedback from the event
  2. Upcoming community events
    - Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Spring Meeting, April 3-4, Denver, CO Spring 2023
      - “Becoming Part of the National Cyberinfrastructure Community”, Shelley Knuth, Support
    - MS-CC Annual Meeting - May 10-11, Atlanta MS-CC - 2023 Annual Meeting
      - John Towns - advisory board member
      - Lizanne DeStefano - invited to attend
2. Open or Emerging Risks/Issues
3. Successes or achievements
Project Office Updates Ron Payne (10 mins)
1. Foci/scope of the week
  1. Quarterly NSF Report submission
  2. ACO Annual NSF Panel Review prep
  3. Performance Management Plan update and release
2. Open or Emerging Risks/Issues
  1. Actively working Ticket System outage (sourced to Atlassian) that occurred on morning of 3 April 2023
3. Successes or achievements
EAB Updates Shawn Strande (10 mins)
1. Foci/scope of the week
2. Open or Emerging Risks/Issues
3. Successes or achievements
Planned Events
1. NSF Reviews 18-19 April 2023
Financial considerations
Misc:

Next Meeting: 10 April 2023