2024-04-22 NSF - OpenCI Meeting Agenda & Summary

Agenda/Notes

1. Updates from NSF (5 minutes)

   1. IPR review in-progress

   2. PEP - start coalescing coalescing systems

   3. recommender systems

      1. discussion to have with EC - Sharon has started with individual teams

      2. Teams are going different directions - and Sharon want to get people going in the same general direction

      3. May need a working group for talking about recommender system - need to move this up in priority

      4. She hears this from the community - too many recommender systems

   4. Tom - focusing on communications plan which was released today - hopes to use this more tactically to drive focus on plans as we change

      1. Tom suggests - going back through bullets - sort so the most important messages are the top two or three - and down the list - there are too many to realistically tackle - provide a way to trim it down
         

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

   1. Tom went to a conference - most were commenting that it is difficult to manage project struggling with longer term sustainability

   2. he found no real good process that sticks out
      

3. Area updates (10+ minutes)

   1. ACO

      1. Progress being made on re-budget (affects PEP) - focusing on level of effort

         1. this budget will be a primary focus of NSF going forward in Year 3 or 4 - keeping things rightsized

      2. NAIRR drawing Towns' attention in push to review first round submissions

   2. Evaluation

      1. Group met last week and charted out upcoming actions

         1. analysis of survey results

      2. Timelines for future metric plans and eval for next plan

         1. 5 program goals and initial set of metrics for them - will get officially approved next

      3. Brief talk about PI meeting - and who should go and represent what

   3. Communications

      1. EC reviewing PY3 Comms Plan now

      2. SGX3 findings meeting this Weds.

      3. New tagline work in progress

      4. Also prioritizing newsletter updates

   4. Project Office

   5. EAB

      1. Finding EAB availability for 1-1 with Allocation & Operations underway

      2. Feb EAB summary report should be coming in this week (per EAB Chair’s note last week)
         

4. Misc:

   1. Review To Do Tasks for NSF Meetings