2023-03-27 NSF - OpenCI Meeting Agenda & Summary

Attendees:

• Present: Lizanne DeStefano, John Towns, Dina Meek, Tom Gulbransen, Lavanya Podila, Jay Alameda, Cynthia Dillon, Shawn Strande, Cindy Wong, Ron Payne

Agenda/Notes

1. New inputs or feedback from community, teams, or NSF (5 mins)
   
   

2. Evaluations Update @Lizanne DeStefano (Unlicensed) (10 mins)

   1. Foci/scope of the week -

   2. Open or Emerging Risks/Issues

   3. Successes or achievements
      
      

3. Communications Update @Dina Meek (10 mins)

   1. Foci/scope of the week - Website

      1. Teams have agreed to have universal navigation/headers, secondary navigation and footers aligned by 4/30, most sooner

      2. Working on adding pages to ACO site:

         1. Collaborating with ACCESS

         2. How to Get Involved with ACCESS

         3. How to Share News

   2. Open or Emerging Risks/Issues

   3. Successes or achievements

      1. Working with Support team to get training videos vetted and uploaded to YouTube
         
         

4. Community Engagement Update @Jay Alameda (10 mins)

   1. Foci/scope of the week

      1. Upcoming Community Events:

         • Boise State (March 28-29, 2023: Research Computing Days March 28-29 ) Keynote - Tom Gulbransen

           • do you have what you need?

         • CASC (March 28-30, 2023): Upcoming Events “What is ACCESS” - John Towns

         • Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Spring Meeting, April 3-4, Denver, CO Spring 2023

           • “Becoming Part of the National Cyberinfrastructure Community”, Shelley Knuth, Support

         • MS-CC Annual Meeting - May 10-11, Atlanta MS-CC - 2023 Annual Meeting

           • John Towns - advisory board member

           • Lizanne DeStefano - invited to attend

   2. Open or Emerging Risks/Issues

   3. Successes or achievements

      1. Recent Community Events

         • AIHEC (March 4-7, Albuquerque) -Agbeli Ameko (Allocations)

           • learned about ESIIL (ESIIL Aims to Foster a “Revolution” in Environmental Data Science) - NSF funded center for data science & diversity. Positive comments about Jetstream2 and ACCESS

           • Local Albuquerque visitors to booth

           • Exhibition booth + “what is ACCESS” talk

           • Promoted CCEP (Support)

         • AARC (Agbeli Ameko, Allocations): 20 reviewers at pre-meeting, went through DEI exercise, 30 proposals under review
           
           

5. Project Office Updates @Ron Payne (10 mins)

   1. Foci/scope of the week

      1. Q4 PY1 Quarterly Report

      2. Spend Plan adjustments

      3. Performance Management Plan

      4. Tools support

   2. Open or Emerging Risks/Issues

   3. Successes or achievements

      1. New ticket system launch

      2. Draft PMP out for review by team
         
         

6. EAB Updates @Shawn Strande (10 mins)

   1. Foci/scope of the week

   2. Open or Emerging Risks/Issues

   3. Successes or achievements
      
      

7. Planned Events

   1. NSF Reviews 18th April 2023
      
      

8. Financial considerations

   1. PjO working to clarify PY1 underspend and create an adjusted spend plan for PY2.
      
      

9. Misc:
   
   

Next Meeting: 3 April 2023