2024-07-30 ACCESS EC Meeting Agenda & Summary

1. Web Standing Committee Discussion @Dina Meek (15 mins)

   1. Dina present on new web development - landing pages by persona

   2. Dave - Welcome to Access - recommends using more of a tagline instead of spelling out what ACCESS stands for

   3. Link to screenshot - https://xd.adobe.com/view/538303d9-2564-4f75-a9ba-be8fb1f13402-06d0/ - with comment capability

   4. Shelly - liked the version where the stories were higher in the page than the buttons - getting started page could be a good home page

   5. Stephen - looking at what features should be on the top bar - taking away team links

   6. Looking at how to get people to places that are not in the top navigation bar

   7. Tom - likes having only 2 clicks to start reading - what happened to discussion of what are the top ticket questions - should the pull downs be what we are asked about by customers - Dina likes the cross check

   8. Shawn - when would this be live? Dina - will need month of August to finish the build - hoping for September

   9. This will start from the ACOs site - and then each team will still manage their own websites

   10. Shawn - this work is getting persona presented on the main page - Then they need to finalize what is in each persona section - how does the web team anticipate getting feedback/reviews? Dina - they want to work closely with EC

   11. John - the Getting started page is just a place with links - if that could be merged with the starting page - that would be nice - looking at reducing the number of clicks

   12. Cindy has a recording of when this was presented to the EAB if anyone wants: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1ZAzsDTPcV3GhL14iBWpj-i3htQE9Qr_4
       
       

2. ACO transition with Shawn leaving (@John Towns ) (5 mins)

   1. SDSC fill in - Amitava (Amit) Majumdar

3. Approval of summaries from prior EC meeting @John Towns (5 mins)

   1. https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/729743361

   2. no updates
      
      

4. Program Milestone Check @John Towns (5 mins)

   1. program wide activities - need to talk to Eval group first - they will be talking to EC soon before those can be discussed

   2. Shelley - Resource Selector and what we will do about it - this is not on the milestone check

   3. Catalog vision is still being worked on by the developers

   4. Could this be scheduled at a future meeting?

   5. Nothing needs to be held up for Shelley’s conversation re overlapping efforts and how not to step on other teams “toes” - is there still a decision that needs to be made by the PIs?

   6. It is good to discuss how teams feel about approaches - but there is not a need for PIs to decide

   7. But all the teams need to build together and coalesce on the efforts

   8. Tom wants a time and date for when this will be finished discussion and work completed - what gets us to a decision

   9. Link to BETA resource catalog: https://access-ci-org.github.io/access-ci-ui/ - The “helping people select resources” is NOT_YET captured in this vision

   10. Link to “overview” of the Resource initiatives: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mulXkrosPYO39Z_VwOH5F8pCkzv_suZxPrb_u3laBoI/edit#slide=id.g2e8ebe4a6da_0_34

   11. Stephen - they do have some things that would benefit from getting EC input on

   12. Stephen will bring this to the EC next week
       
       

5. Informational Items (10 mins)

   1. RP Forum @Jeremy Fischer - none

   2. Allocations Stephen Deems

      1. MS-CC All-Hands Presentation Follow-up (Link to Slides & Recording)

         1. We’re beyond the “What is ACCESS?” and “How do I get an Allocation?” phase.

            1. More and more questions are coming from the community that relate to finding available resources (e.g. AI models, datasets, software, etc.) and it’s uninspiring to answer questions with “you need to check with the individual RPs..”

      2. Tapia Conference

         1. September 18-20 in San Diego, CA. (Link to Registration Page)

         2. The purchase of a presenter engagement (booth) has gone through. Will be working with Dina/Comms about getting materials (similar setup to PEARC).

         3. Would be great to have additional hands on deck to help work the booth/table - we do have 1 free registration

   3. MATCH Shelley Knuth/Alana

      1. prepping for next set of workshops - being more inclusive with other communities - a couple are taking place next month

      2. RP workshop at the beginning of September

   4. CONECT Tim Boerner/Leslie

      1. Need slide deck for ACCESS overview that includes opportunities for CSSI and Cybertraining PIs for NSF CSSI and Cybertraining PI meeting (Winona and/or Dave to present 15 overview)

         1. need content on CSSI - cybertraining opportunities

      2. Can we get confirmation that the Sept QM will end by noon on Thursday 9/26 (can plan flights home that afternoon?) - John hasn’t looked at the agenda - Lavanya confirms

   5. MMS Tom Furlani

      1. xdmod 11.0 released next week

   6. OpenCI John Towns

      1. Planning for September in-person QM - Lavanya is reconvening planning group again! Need a representative from Support - so far no one is volunteering - remember this is not logistics this is only Agenda

      2. Planning for next virtual EAB meeting - need agenda topics suggested for this as well

         1. Chair is prepping a summary of the last meeting

      3. EC Charter will be upcoming as well
         
         

Misc Topics:

1. SCIPE-CIP Forum Charter @Tom Gulbransen - would they benefit from us eventually contacting them in a couple months

2. Sharon - get support for NAIRR pilot - How do RPs who get a ticket they can’t handle - get it to the right person for support - This could be the next expansion - we will be looking at when it would be right to approach