2023-01-18 OpenCI Leadership Meeting Agenda & Summary

Attendees:

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

Agenda/Notes

1. Debrief on EC meeting@John Towns

2. Follow-up on External Evaluation Feedback (All)

3. NSF Feedback on ACO progress (@John Towns)

Time Permitting:

• EAB Updates @Shawn Strande

• Evaluation Update @Lizanne DeStefano (Unlicensed)

• Communications Update@Dina Meek

  • Discuss the future of the Web and Branding Presence working group

• Community Engagement Update@Jay Alameda

  • Would like to schedule a joint community engagement/evaluation meeting

    • Group working on determining what we need to know about our community, and what can we do to track progress (database studies, input to evaluation for community survey, …)

  • Coordinating activities via google calendar

  • Terminology and Language Policy - interest in seeing this supported consistently across tracks

  • Engaging with IRBs in Support and Allocations

  • ACCESS Allocations DEI Plan released by Allocations: ACCESS Allocation Services DEI Plan: Advancing an open, inviting, and democratized allocations marketplace for the national research cyberinfrastructure ecosystem

  • Items for next call - adding details to community definitions

    • attributes for different community groups

    • results of NSF award searches (where relevant) to define potential community members

    • tracking service area interest in different community groups (imagine a Venn diagram…)

• Project Office & Tools Update @Ron Payne

Reference - ACO Action Tracker

Next Meeting: 25 January 2023