2023-01-17 ACCESS EC Meeting Agenda & Summary

Owned by Lavanya Podila
Last updated: Jan 19, 2023
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Attendees:

  • RAMPS: Stephen Deems (v), Dave Hart

  • MATCH: Shelley Knuth (v)

  • CONECT: Tim Boerner (v), Leslie Froeschl

  • MMS: Tom Furlani (v), Joe White

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

  • NSF: Tom Gulbransen

(v) indicates a voting member

Agenda/Notes

  1. Approval of summaries from prior EC meetings @John Towns (5 mins)

    1. 10 January 2023 EC Summary (approved)

       

  2. Informational Items (10 mins)

    1. RAMPS @Stephen Deems

      1. Optional Demographic Profile Information is now in production for: age, gender, racial group(s), race/ethnicities, and disabilities.

      3. Updated Exchange interface is in production to move ACCESS Credits → Resource Units

      4. RAMPS team to reach out to Communications to spread the word regarding the new feature

    2. MATCH @Shelley Knuth

      1.  Grad schools and conferences reaching out to apply for travel stipends

      2. If the ACCESS team comes across grad students requiring travel stipends, encouraged to reach out to the MATCH team for flyer and QR code

      3. RMACC symposium in May

      4. MATCH team publication: Journal of Computational Science Education: The Multi-Tier Assistance, Training, and Computational Help (MATCH) Project, a Track 2 NSF ACCESS Initiative

    3. CONECT @Tim Boerner

      1. Migration to new rp-forum@access-ci.org and rp-tech@access-ci.org email lists is now complete. The old XSEDE email lists will be turned off. Notifications sent to both lists and a new RP Forum meeting invite was sent. Let Leslie know if you hear of any problems/issues (or if you would like to be added!).

    4. MMS @Tom Furlani

      1. Application kernel use case slide attached below

    5. OpenCI @John Towns

      1. Ron developing a risk register in Jira to track down risks

      2. The process for populating risks would be sent out later this week

         

  3. EAB meeting scheduling@Shawn Strande (10 mins)

    1. Discussion regarding finding 2 hour time slot for the first EAB meeting

    2. PI's requested to take a look at the link and reschedule some meetings if possible https://www.when2meet.com/?18143117-DnbA3

    3. Possible options - 1st March and 2nd March

    4. The EAB meetings will be recorded which can be shared with new members

  4. Follow-up from External Evaluator Report to ACO @John Towns (15 mins)

    1. ACO appreciates feedback received from the PI’s

    2. ACO will begin reviewing the feedback and work to incorporate it

    3. Future changes might include: more communication, quarterly ACO meetings with the awardees, follow-up session with Lisa

  5. Misc Topics

    1. NSF Reviews - To be scheduled in 2nd/3rd week of April and will be virtual

 

 

 

 

Reference: EC Backlog & Action Items

Next EC Meeting: 24 January 2023