2025-11-05 - OpenCI Leadership Meeting Agenda & Summary

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

Parking Lot:

NSF Meeting Project Spotlight Topics

  • Shannon out Nov 5, 2025

Decisions made during the meeting:

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Agenda/Notes

  1. Most Recent EC Meeting Debrief

    1. 2025-11-04 - ACCESS EC Meeting Agenda & Summary

  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? -

      1. 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

        1. Add discussion to EC @Shannon Bradley: Ask EC regarding Lisa attending Feb meeting

        2. Lisa to fly in Monday, meet Tuesday, out on Wednesday

        3. Covering travel – add Lisa to NCSA reimbursement system (@Shannon Bradley)

          1. Must get approval from NSF before moving forward

      2. 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)

  3. Review Action Items
    ACO Member To Do Items

  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

    2. ACO progress

  3. Updates

    1. @John Towns

      1. No additional update

    2. @Chuck P

      1. Gathering topics for Dec Quarterly Meeting from EC

      2. EAB email to

    3. @majumdar

      1. Eval SC is narrowing down the Community questions (top 9)

    4. @Cindy Wong

      1. Dec 17: need to confirm agenda topics (I know Chuck is working on this)

      2. Feb 16, 2026: Send Feb EAB “save the date” once Chuck sends email about ACCESS Palooza

      3. Find time for next two one-on-one Service Team & EAB meetings

    5. @Dina Meek - absent

      1.  

    6. @Kimberly Bruch

      1.  

    7. @Misha Shah -

      1. Finalizing some docs for Dec 11 Quarterly - plan to get them out tomorrow 11/6

    8. @Shannon Bradley - absent

    9.  

Next Meeting: Nov 12, 2025

Reference

ACO Vacation Schedule