2026-02-11 - OpenCI ACO Leadership Meeting Agenda & Summary

1. Most Recent EC Meeting Debrief

   1. https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/1970601985

   2. Link to RAC agenda was going to swag page - corrected

2. Review Action Items
   
   

   Open

   

   
   ACO Member To Do Items

3. Select Spotlight Topic for Monday’s NSF meeting

   1. https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/database/1644199966

   2. Moving to a once every two weeks cadence

      1. Next meeting is Feb 23, 2026

   3. Topic Picked:

      1. Financials (tentatively)

4. Updates

   1. @John Towns

      1. Will not be able to participate in Day 1 of QM due to DOE meeting in DC. Will fly to DC after EAB, participate in DOE meeting and fly back Wednesday and participate in Day 2 of QM. Yeah, fun!

   2. @Chuck P

      1. absent

   3. @majumdar

      1. RSE meeting tomorrow

   4. @Cindy Wong - vacation March 17 - April 2

      1. Evaluation

         1. Staff survey - reopened and closing on Fri. 2/20. 48 responses

         2. Community - live and closes on Monday, 3/2. Currently 308 responses - surpassed several past years' responses - but the list is very large (50,000+)

         3. RP - live and closes Monday, 3/9. Currently 2 responses

            1. going out in 2 phases

            2. less than 20 people

      2. EAB

         1. https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AYCKbw

            1. Reminder email sent by Chuck 2/10, with link to materials folder

         2. Schedule remaining 1-1s: ACO and RP (to-do)

      3. RAC: Meeting tomorrow https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/1849294849

      4. Feb QM:

         1. Possibly announce call out for a Maximize proposal - talk to Bruno/Dina

         2. draft post meeting survey

         3. Name badge in-progress

   5. @Dina Meek

      1. John will get Dina info on ATT -244 - commented to John in the ticket

      2. FYI Dina will present for the ACO on “What is Everyone Developing”

         1. Focusing on Comms activities around consolidating brand, the Highlights book, establishing goals for PEARC/SC

      3. Bruno - announce in new staff newsletter

      4. Lesson Learned: In a multiple award - having multiple web sites creates challenges for creating a cohesive brand

         1. Different Platforms

         2. Some use Mission - Some use Vision

         3. There was a lot done that we didn’t need to do

         4. not much collaboration

         5. https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/1873903617

   6. Cindy - question from RP standpoint - there is a feature that you can enable or disable for registration - wants to know how to use it - someone was creating a registration form within the ACCESS website - wants to know how to use it

      1. If you were to post an event - you want to understand how to enable registration function for event

      2. Dina will provide support email for support web (Lizzie Fein)

   7. @Kimberly Bruch

      1. Denise K - Michigan - TV work using Xpanse

         1. "Even the lowly worms do calculus. Roundworms take a derivative to figure out how much a given quantity (like saltiness) is changing at a certain point in space and time, and adjust their behavior accordingly. If worms can do calculus, humans simply have no excuse for avoiding it. I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly ignorant of math, whereas it is a shameful thing to be illiterate. We could all be just
            a little bit mathier....We ought to have some basic understanding of how math in general, and calculus in particular, fits into our cultural framework, and be able to look at a rudimentary equation without breaking into a cold sweat.”

            • From the book "The Calculus Diaries".

      2. Sickle Cell at Emory

      3. Reached out to 6 or 7 older contacts

      4. Approach them from view point of user using Comet, go to Xpanse, Xsede, ACCESS - longer term perspective of value of program on their science

      5. Looking at 2 or 3 of these stories - from resource perspective - different personas and what they have achieved on that resource

      6. Ask allocations to give a list of PIs who have multiple alloc over the last 20 years who have used resources at a variety of institutions

         1. email Bruno or Nathan - talk to them next week

   8. @Misha Shah

      1. No update

      2. Will not be there next week

   9. @Shannon Bradley

      1. Planning Feb Meeting

         1. Planning Sheet - 2026 Spring ACCESS Conference Planning - In Person - ChicagoPreview

         2. Cindy will help Shannon with name tags

            1. https://access-ci.atlassian.net/browse/ATT-243

               1. we got the newest Hotel registration list to make name tags

         3. How do we handle notepads and pens/pencils for people to use during the sessions

            1. do venues provide these? no

            2. do we bring them? yes

         4. Breakfast planning

         5. Hotel wants to charge attrition - send info to Misha to review - DONE

      2. All new RACI frameworks are now under this header.
         https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/530382852

         Yellow highlights are things that now need to be updated by the Standing Committees.

      3. Is there an agenda for the EC meeting on Tuesday?

         1. we have a topic to discuss and I don’t know where to put it

         2. When do we want to discuss this? This is from JPs presentation - streamlining - Tom wanted to take it offline to the ACCESS meeting - JP should request a slot for the infrastructure expansion committee - Shannon reach out to JP ask if he wants a slot

            • During the Quarterly Meeting - During EC meeting - what part of agenda?

              • Update on Infrastructure Expansion: Standing committee exists focuses on identifying new classes of CI to integrate with ACCESS

              • Question for EC: Is this the correct approach we are taking (working on non allocated compute cloud and storage resources has been deprioritized)

                Two Discoverable but not allocated resources
                SAGE AI/Edge Computing at Northwestern
                FABRIC @ UNC Chapel Hill
                What should we do?
                Sharon (NSF) - the fact that they are NSF funded is not the main point, the focus is - were they funded to be national resources?
                If we want to support national scale resources(we want to be affiliated but not allocated)

                What is the EC adopted new terminology: Allocated/full integrated, enabled and aligned

                ACTION: The above needs to become a topic for the quarterly meeting - when the group is together.

              • There is no time in the agenda nor in the EC time on Tuesday - send email to JP and copy Chuck how do you want to handle this.

              • Emailed JP and Chuck - Done 2/11 2:50 pm

      4. EC Quick access page updated with new people

   10. @Lisa Kaczmarczyk

       1. Working on Protocol for Tuesday meeting

       2. Will have SOW to Amit by end of week

Feb 18, 2026- Cancelled

Next Meeting: Feb 25, 2026

Reference

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