2026-04-29 - OpenCI ACO Leadership Meeting Agenda & Summary
Attendees:
Present: John Towns, Chuck Pavloski, Amitava Majumdar, Dina Meek, Kim Bruch, Misha Shah, Cindy Wong, Shannon Bradley, Lisa Kaczmarczyk
Decisions made during the meeting:
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Agenda/Notes
Most Recent EC Meeting Debrief
Review Action Items
ACO Member To Do Items - after this are tasks for the next quarterly report
Select Spotlight Topic for Monday’s NSF meeting - we meet May 4, 2026
Should we talk about any section of the annual report?
We would need to let her know in advance - so we could not do this until the 18th
Do we need to have a meeting on May 4?
Updates
@John Towns -
nothing additional to add
reviewed the decision to not have an annual review with Lisa
John needs to know what to do with staff because there could be some people at risk as of next May 1, 2027 of not having a replacement project when this ends
@Chuck P
ACCESS Data Source Inventory - John hopes to have his review done this week
EAB / EC interaction from Feb 2026 meeting had 4 of 5 team approval
@majumdar-
Heard from Dave that he is back to working with ACCESS via Internet2 - brings Dave, Stephen, Lauren, Tim and some others back to the fold
@Cindy Wong -
Evaluation
RP Survey: relaunched per Winona’s request.
Targeting those who did not respond the first round; email sent on Apr 23, 2026; Closes Friday, May 8, 2026
EAB
June EAB virtual meeting (deadline May 6) https://www.when2meet.com/?36413567-ch2wR
EAB 4 out of 9 responded
EC: Majority responded; Eric on vacation, so Virginia will sit in; Bruno will join if he can, but will be on vacation in June; Nathan to sit in if there is a conflict
1-1 ACO may need to push this to next quarter; same with RP
RAC (next meeting Tuesday, Sep 29, 2026)
No update
@Dina Meek
PEARC
Can Comms use 2 of the 4 registrations? yes
The PO has been issued to PEARC; I’ll be following up with them to ensure they issue the invoice
PY4 Highlights Book - with EC for review
@Kimberly Bruch
Made a Voyager video
@Misha Shah -
@Shannon Bradley -
Working on PEARC26 Student attendance funding - separate from
Testing the waters for a Virtual Quarterly Meeting in June
Working with Shelley and her team for Fall Quarterly Meeting
@Lisa Kaczmarczyk
no updates
Next Meeting: May 6, 2026
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