2025-11-05 - 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
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? -
Lisa - will be at a conference in St Louis thurs, friday, saturday - might be able to meet on Tuesday, Feb 17 if she flies in early
Add discussion to EC @Shannon Bradley: Ask EC regarding Lisa attending Feb meeting
Lisa to fly in Monday, meet Tuesday, out on Wednesday
Covering travel – add Lisa to NCSA reimbursement system (@Shannon Bradley)
Must get approval from NSF before moving forward
Feb meeting schedule options:
Option A
Monday: Team Meetings
Tuesday:
EAB Executive Session
EAB meeting with Lisa Kaczmarczyk
EC Session
EC meeting with Lisa Kaczmarczyk
Wed/Thurs - Quarterly Meeting
Option B
Tuesday:
EAB Executive Session
EAB meeting with Lisa Kaczmarczyk
EC Session
EC meeting with Lisa Kaczmarczyk
Wednesday: Team meetings
Thursday–Friday: Quarterly meeting (1.5 days - ending by noon on Friday)
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
ACO progress
Updates
@John Towns
No additional update
@Chuck P
Gathering topics for Dec Quarterly Meeting from EC
EAB email to
@majumdar
Eval SC is narrowing down the Community questions (top 9)
@Cindy Wong
Dec 17: need to confirm agenda topics (I know Chuck is working on this)
Feb 16, 2026: Send Feb EAB “save the date” once Chuck sends email about ACCESS Palooza
Find time for next two one-on-one Service Team & EAB meetings
@Dina Meek - absent
@Kimberly Bruch
@Misha Shah -
Finalizing some docs for Dec 11 Quarterly - plan to get them out tomorrow 11/6
@Shannon Bradley - absent
Next Meeting: Nov 12, 2025
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