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
Decisions made during the meeting:
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Agenda/Notes
Most Recent EC Meeting Debrief
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
John to get an EC and RP rep buy-in on Lisa’s attendance and confirm funding for Lisa to travel
Lisa to fly in Sunday, meet on Monday, leave Tuesday
Review Action Items
ACO Member To Do Items
Select Spotlight Topic for Monday’s NSF meeting
NSF Meeting Project Spotlight Topics - 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 - absent
@Chuck P
Nitin eligibility for EAB
@majumdar
Starting the drafts for the 3 surveys
Community - each Service Team to pick top 9 from last year’s survey and to pick top 9 amongst all
Extend the option to take longer or focused surveys from each Service Team
@Cindy Wong
Dec virtual EAB - dates confirmed 12/17 from 7am - 9am PT
Service team 1-1’s: Chuck to provide the next two that the EAB want to meet
Schedule 2 prior to ACCESS palooza and another 2 before annual review
@Dina Meek - absent
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
Story from UCSD using Voyager about better way to tackle Cervical Cancer
Will be at SC on Sunday
@Misha Shah - absent
@Shannon Bradley - absent
Next Meeting: Oct 29, 2025
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