2025-10-29 - OpenCI Leadership Meeting Agenda & Summary

2025-10-29 - 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:

NSF Meeting Project Spotlight Topics

  • Shannon out Oct 29, 2025 and Nov 5, 2025

Decisions made during the meeting:

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Agenda/Notes

  1. Most Recent EC Meeting Debrief

    1. 2025-10-28 - ACCESS EC Meeting Agenda & Summary

    2. people are not using the engagement tracker - PEARC25 was not in list

  2. What would ACO like Lisa to do in terms of a specific focus for the next Project Year - (10 min) - Lisa Kaczmarczyk

    1. Has this been decided on? - no - ACCESS paloosa will be Feb 16 downtown Chicago - Lisa can’t go to this

      1. Assessment of government structure

      2. What has ACCESS been doing that would work for the next incarnation of this service

      3. Lisa - re: second idea - would be easier to justify - need to stay within scope of what is allowed within project

      4. If we don’t get a supplement for extra travel - what would she do

        1. sit in on meetings

        2. see how ACO is interacting with people

        3. online focus group could be done

        4. final report would be similar to what she has done but larger

      5. Cindy - Possibly an EC / Lisa meeting in San Diego since she is local there

      6. 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

        1. John to get an EC and RP rep buy-in on Lisa’s attendance and confirm funding for Lisa to travel

        2. Lisa to fly in Sunday, meet on Monday, leave Tuesday

  3. Review Action Items
    ACO Member To Do Items

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  1. Select Spotlight Topic for Monday’s NSF meeting

  2. NSF Meeting Project Spotlight Topics - select topic if it seems like the shutdown will be over on Monday

    1. Outcomes discussion - is Misha ready to talk about this in 2 weeks

    2. ACO progress

  3. Updates

    1. @John Towns - absent

    2. @Chuck P

      1. Nitin eligibility for EAB

    3. @majumdar

      1. Starting the drafts for the 3 surveys

        1. Community - each Service Team to pick top 9 from last year’s survey and to pick top 9 amongst all

          1. Extend the option to take longer or focused surveys from each Service Team

    4. @Cindy Wong

      1. Dec virtual EAB - dates confirmed 12/17 from 7am - 9am PT

      2. Service team 1-1’s: Chuck to provide the next two that the EAB want to meet

        1. Schedule 2 prior to ACCESS palooza and another 2 before annual review

    5. @Dina Meek - absent

      1. absent

      2. 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.

    6. @Kimberly Bruch

      1. Story from UCSD using Voyager about better way to tackle Cervical Cancer

      2. Will be at SC on Sunday

    7. @Misha Shah - absent

      1.  

    8. @Shannon Bradley - absent

      1.  

Next Meeting: Oct 29, 2025

Reference

ACO Vacation Schedule