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2025-06-25 OpenCI Leadership Meeting Agenda & Summary

2025-06-25 OpenCI Leadership Meeting Agenda & Summary

Attendees:

Present: John Towns, Chuck Pavlovski, Dina Meek, Lavanya Podila, Kim Bruch, Cindy Wong, Shannon Bradley, Lisa Kaczmarczyk, Amitava Majumdar

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Decisions made during the meeting:

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Agenda/Notes

  1. EC Meeting Debrief

    1. https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/1290371309

  2. Review Action Items

ACCESS To Do Items - filtered to only ACO members

https://access-ci.atlassian.net/jira/core/projects/ATT/list?sortBy=duedate&direction=ASC&themeState=dark%3Adark%20light%3Alight%20spacing%3Aspacing%20colorMode%3Alight&filter=status%20IN%20(%22To%20Do%22%2C%20%22In-Progress%22)%20AND%20assignee%20IN%20(%22557058%3Ac61fb5cb-fcb1-48c2-a2e4-a8f1aef1c361%22%2C%20%2262eab95c50bd9783f62b3279%22%2C%20%22557058%3A058110c9-90e4-4513-b724-ad9102619ff5%22%2C%20%2263caee7d2c6573abb08de901%22%2C%20%22627a6ec28dd5f300685510ca%22%2C%20%22712020%3A5ddf0007-5488-4466-a2f8-3ec2414e2dfc%22%2C%20%22557058%3A611b897c-3b29-4055-afdc-f9fab8faa655%22%2C%20%22630e560d8473817d7d04384b%22)

  1. Updates

    1. @John Towns

      1. Supplement / Budget update

        1. Drop Dead info: https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/1474985985

        2. Shannon audited finances and provided John with updates. In the end, we want to make sure we will spend it out by the end of the ACCESS program

      2. John will be out the next two weeks;

        1. Fill in your OoO: https://access-ci.atlassian.net/jira/core/projects/ATC/calendar

      3. What is ACCESS? (Language) - from 06/24/25 EC meeting

        1. ACCESS is an NSF-funded program that provides the U.S. research and education community with coordinated access to a nationwide ecosystem of advanced computing, data, storage, and other cyberinfrastructure resources–at no cost, and without the need for grant funding. It serves as a central hub connecting systems, expert support, and training to accelerate scientific discovery, innovation, and education across all disciplines.

          1. Compiled from feedback at the quarterly meeting

          2. Will distribute through email for comment/iteration

          3. @Shannon Bradley please add this to a future EC agenda for discussion

    2. @Chuck P

      1. EAB meeting update

        1. Waiting on a report from EAB Chair (hopefully within two weeks)

      2. move on outstanding todo items ASAP as per directive from JT

      3. Chuck won’t be available next week; fill out https://access-ci.atlassian.net/jira/core/projects/ATC/calendar

    3. @majumdar

      1. Finalize all summaries and will share with the EC and it would be shared to their members

      2. Move towards survey strategies for the next year

    4. @Cindy Wong

      1. To create a sub-folder for EAB recordings to restrict access

      2. Send EAB link to recording and survey reminder

      3. Sept QM planning to start

      4. Schedule next Sept EAB meeting (set up poll ASAP)

    5. @Lavanya Podila (Unlicensed) - absent

      1. PEARC 2025

        1. Dina got an email regarding PEARC planning:

        2. What needs to be done with it?

          1. Dina notes that there is nothing else needed.

        3. image-20250620-164622.png

    6. @Shannon Bradley - vacation

      1. Quarterly Report Due - we need to start a timeline and create workspace draft document

      2. @Shannon Bradley please share duties that you and Misha discussed at the NSF or ACO calls.

    7. @Dina Meek

      1. Holding Inside ACCESS for Sharon’s report

      2. Good meeting yesterday with Ag on providing Comms support for the community college initiative; launching for fall semester

      3. PEARC25 Gold news: https://access-ci.org/going-gold-with-access-at-pearc25/

    8. @Kimberly Bruch

      1. No updates

    9. @Lisa - absent

Next Meeting: 2nd July 2025

Reference

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FFGMv7qdoKtHMy_zyyjFLdBMVmCDJY6QDGXSxp_988I/edit#gid=0