2022-09-20 ACCESS EC Meeting Agenda & Summary

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Last updated: Sept 26, 2022 by Ron Payne
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Attendees:

  • RAMPS: Stephen Deems (v), Dave Hart

  • MATCH: Shelley Knuth (v), Dave Hudak

  • CONECT: Tim Boerner (v), Leslie Froeschl

  • MMS: Tom Furlani (v), Joe White

  • OpenCI: John Towns (v), Shawn Strande, Ron Payne, Lavanya Podila,

  • NSF: Tom Gulbransen (NSF)

  • Guest Speaker:

    • Lisa Kaczmarczyk for external evaluation of ACO

(v) indicates a voting member

Agenda/Notes

  1. External Evaluator Responsibilities @Lisa Kaczmarczyk (10 minutes)

    a. Evaluator of the ACO, Lisa will reach out at the end of the calendar year and early spring (end of year 1 for ACCESS) regarding feedback

  2. Approval of summaries from prior EC meetings @John Towns (5 min)

    1. 13 September 2022 EC Summary (approved)

  3. Informational Items (10 mins)

    1. RAMPS @Stephen Deems

      1. Notifications regarding proposal outcomes from August XRAC meeting were sent successfully. Working with groups who were denied to resubmit/re-align.

      2. Yesterday’s “Welcome to ACCESS!” email took down allocations.access-ci.org for a few minutes

        1. Over 14,000 hits came in; may not be purely related to # of HTTP requests

          1. Development team suspects this was due to Microsoft Office 365 checking links for phishing attacks. No immediate action required. Will investigate when a future communication goes out. Thanks for Dina/Megan for the help with message.

    2. MATCH @Shelley Knuth

      1.  NTR

    3. CONECT @Tim Boerner

      1. Finalizing a graphic for the STEP (student training program). Have decided to remove the word CONECT from the graphic to avoid confusion.

    4. MMS @Tom Furlani

      1. NTR

    5. OpenCI @John Towns

      1. I, along with Tom F. and Stephen, will be presenting to Campus Champions in the hour following this meeting.

  4. Slack Communications with the community @Shelley Knuth (5 mins)

    1. Discussion regarding purpose of each slack channel

    2. @Shawn Strande to draft a version stating the definition, function and purpose of each slack channel, to be reviewed by @Tim Boerner and then present to the EC

  5. EAB Charter Discussions @Shawn Strande (10 mins)

    1.  

  6. Metrics/Tracking mechanisms @Tom Gulbransen (10 mins)

    1. Types of tracking which are not already a part of the established processes? For example, user support tracking

    2. To be discussed, 2 weeks from today, (EC Meeting 4th October 2022)

  7. Time permitting: EC Backlog Review: Update priority/items for next EC meeting @John Towns

 

Next EC Meeting: 27 September 2022