2025-10-22 - OpenCI Leadership Meeting Agenda & Summary
Attendees:
Present: John Towns, Chuck Pavloski, Amitava Majumdar, Kim Bruch, Misha Shah, Cindy Wong, Shannon Bradley, Lisa Kaczmarczyk
Hiatus: Dina Meek
Parking Lot:
https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/database/1644199966
Shannon out Oct 29, 2025 and Nov 5, 2025
Decisions made during the meeting:
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Agenda/Notes
Most Recent EC Meeting Debrief
https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/1673330704
new section for WG/SC to report up from regular meetings
people are not using the engagement tracker - PEARC25 was not in list
What would ACO like Lisa to do in terms of a specific focus for the next Project Year - (10 min) - Lisa Kaczmarczyk
Has this been decided on? - no - ACCESS paloosa will be Feb 16 downtown Chicago - Lisa can’t go to this
Assessment of government structure
What has ACCESS been doing that would work for the next incarnation of this service
Lisa - re: second idea - would be easier to justify - need to stay within scope of what is allowed within project
If we don’t get a supplement for extra travel - what would she do
sit in on meetings
see how ACO is interacting with people
online focus group could be done
final report would be similar to what she has done but larger
Cindy - Possibly an EC / Lisa meeting in San Diego since she is local there
Lisa - will be at a conference in St Louis thurs, friday, saturday - might be able to meet on Feb 17 if she flies in early
Review Action Items
ACO Member To Do Items
Select Spotlight Topic for Monday’s NSF meeting
https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/database/1644199966 - select topic if it seems like the shutdown will be over on Monday
Outcomes discussion - is Misha ready to talk about this in 2 weeks
ACO progress
Updates
@John Towns
John and Shannon need to work on this - ATT-132 - Letters of Collaboration - https://access-ci.atlassian.net/browse/ATT-132
Is on agenda for 1on1 on Friday
Quarterly Report - is behind schedule - in progress still
@Chuck P
EC sent action items for comment as a result of the EAB Sept 4th meeting summary - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WAr43P00MuvLkyC7WZsY_ElzBe7tBEl_rbQPu087d5o/edit?usp=sharing
RACI Framework for SC/WGs moved to completed: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Lf6a-jvnbsj0mJj14sRC1wdBWIg2XhIdmzkyCw5qDI/edit?tab=t.0
ATT-17 completed (Shannon has this done) - weighting process utilizes Atlassian tools.
ATT-17: Design Process for weighing needs to determine what type of process is needed to get tasks done
We are addressing this by using JIRA and labels and tags
Draft Document in review -https://access-ci.atlassian.net/browse/ATT-18
Chuck to work with Cindy to send notice to EAB members about the Spring Quarterly Meeting Feb 16-19 (20) to be held in Downtown Chicago
December virtual EAB meeting timing?
@majumdar
@Cindy Wong
Dec virtual EAB - possible 12/17 from 7am - 9am PT - 7/10 are available - so there is a quorum
12/15 available who filled out the poll (https://www.when2meet.com/?32406275-1DAFO) – still missing a few folks availability
@Dina Meek
absent
Dina texted Megan Johnson last night to tell her that Margo has started her re-hiring paperwork! Hopefully we'll hear back very soon about Dina's re-start date.
@Kimberly Bruch
email with link to stories - see Jira task for link as well
@Misha Shah
Have met with John on ACO objectives/strategies for KPI framework. Editing to incorporate feedback. Will need another 2-3 weeks to work on this.
Meeting with Cindy/Shannon next week to start discussion around quarterly meeting planning (Dec & Feb/March)
I am unavailable during both proposed dates for Spring Quarterly meeting (will not impact my ability to plan, of course)
@Shannon Bradley
Slack Workspace Owner transfer to Shannon being worked on by Slack
Amit’s supplement has been processed - SDSC now has the money
Will be out next week for Science Gateways and the week after for vacation
Working on putting the RACI forms into Confluence
Next Meeting: Oct 29, 2025
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