2025-11-04 - ACCESS EC Meeting Agenda & Summary
Attendees:
RAMPS: Stephen Deems (v), Dave Hart
MATCH: Shelley Knuth (v), Alana Romanella, Jim Griffioen
CONECT: Tim Boerner (v), Leslie Froeschl
MMS: Tom Furlani (v), Joe White
RP: Eric Adams (v), Virginia Trueheart
EAB: Chuck Pavloski
OpenCI: John Towns (v), Amit Majumdar, Misha Shah, Lisa Kaczmarczyk, Shannon Bradley
NSF: Sharon Geva, Ed Walker
Parking Lot
Fall Events to be aware of: Shelley’s and John’s calendars
November 4 (John at Chicago Quantum Summit)
November 18 (SC; anticipate EC meeting is cancelled)
Shannon will be out of office Nov 4 (vacation)
Decisions made during the meeting:
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Agenda
Consent Agenda @Shelley Knuth (5 mins)
Approval of summaries from prior EC meeting - 2025-10-28 - ACCESS EC Meeting Agenda & Summary
Informational Items
Allocations @Stephen Deems
Will be reaching out to Operations team to discuss the process of adding organizations to the ACCESS database
need to collect more information moving forward and think more about decision-making process
Stephen be on PTO December 10 - January 5 (wedding/honeymoon)
Please contact Dave with any needs.
Support@Shelley Knuth /Alana/Jim
Operations @Tim Boerner /Leslie
Executive summary from the fall RP Workshop can be found at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yayVy_2A1W3VBwslgZ4Z1su5pAN3Gtgw/edit.
Resource integration status dashboard for ACCESS leadership/NSF awareness: https://operations-api.access-ci.org/wh2/integration_views/v1/resource_pivot/?roadmap=67 (Or visit https://dashboard.operations.access-ci.org/ -> Click on Views & Reports -> Click on ACCESS Resource Summary)
Feedback is welcome. Either submit a ticket or reach out to JP on Slack.
Metrics @Tom Furlani @Tom Furlani
RP Forum @Eric Adams (RCAC)
EAB @Chuck P
Call for agenda topics for Dec 17 EAB meeting
ACO @John Towns
NSF - Sharon and Ed -
shutdown still in place
Standing Committee Updates - EC Liason - (Chuck lead)
Communications Standing Committee
no report
Cybersecurity Standing Committee
Did not meet since last EC meeting
Evaluation Standing Committee
no report
Infrastructure Standing Committee
Tim and Leslie met with the committee on October 23 to discuss suggested terminology and definitions for various classes of infrastructure that might choose to have some level of involvement with ACCESS. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RDKiMNApaBdBOaRJN0S1H9ZEPYVZku7w4bhnVt-4vtk/edit?tab=t.0 has been presented to the EC for discussion/feedback/approval. This will also be shared with NSF once they return to work.
Ticketing Standing Committee
no report
Web Presence Standing Committee
no report
Milestone Review: (Link Below)
EC Meeting To Do / Follow Ups: (Link Below)
Reminders
Upcoming Meetings & Events (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_EXKUOXmY-TVkDWaHR1-SuiKt404uGEnGSr6uQCkwzw/edit?gid=0#gid=0 )
Additional Agenda Items
NSF Update - (0 minutes) Sharon and Ed - NSF in shutdown mode
Approval for response to EAB questions - 5 mins (tops) - Chuck
Review/approval of RP terminology and application docs - 5 mins - Tim
The Infrastructure Expansion Standing Committee is proposing new terminology regarding various levels of ACCESS resource providers be adopted: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RDKiMNApaBdBOaRJN0S1H9ZEPYVZku7w4bhnVt-4vtk/edit?tab=t.0
Operations plans to post a new application form for non-ACSS resources who would like to apply to be an ACCESS RP: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GqxtRgpZMf9NYw-rgV1HMICMDx-lTyNGmynOU4jMaOE/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.2bhah4a9j2f0
NSF Takeaways - 20 mins - Shelley
Dec Virtual Quarterly - 2 mins - Misha
Follow up on email I sent yesterday to EC - ACTION: Need names of all attendees
LINKS
Program Milestones
EC Meeting Task Tracking + Quarterly and Annual Meetings To Do Follow Ups
Misc Topics:
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