2026-07-01 - OpenCI ACO Leadership Meeting Agenda & Summary

Decisions made during the meeting:

Agenda/Notes

1. Most Recent EC Meeting Debrief

   1. 2026-06-30 - (Cancelled) ACCESS EC Meeting Agenda & Summary

   2. nothing to review

   3. Tim taking over as EC Chair as of now

2. Review Action Items
   ACO Member To Do Items
   
   

   Open

   

3. Select Spotlight Topic for Monday’s NSF meeting

   1. NSF Meeting Project Spotlight Topics

4. Quarterly Report - @John Towns

   1. Start comments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1guE9HK0khmDUyHwg1RM5wJfghxn5oUL_g33BXqtzJaA/edit?usp=sharing

5. Updates

   1. @John Towns

      1. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mZhDcAuO7Pnqy5KZLeEAIHnvH4AkfwnPvXxxaPWmxxg/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.6d2mq7t4bfgt

      2. John took out numbers so they were not “prioritized”

      3. We had no issues with them from NSF

      4. Will work on putting supplement document together after we finish quarterly report

      5. Budget should look like Year 5 when we propose Year 6

      6. How will we handle Lisa’s section? It was written to leave the door open for more - Sharon has not said yes or no yet - awaiting input from her on that

         1. at a minimum we can continue what we are doing - but we have an opportunity to do more

      7. Working on PSC - for PEARC support for students to attend

   2. @Chuck P

      1. EAB sent summary from the June 6th meeting - will be sent around to the EC next after quick review

         1. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zXMQQhpWHMHWaR0V9hByIRjfLrA8evSU/view?usp=drive_link

      2. Six EAB members have already agreed to stay on if there is an extension to ACCESS into year 6

         1. Gwen, Nitin, Richard, Gretta, Will, Kaihua, Gwen J - waiting on others to respond

   3. @majumdar-

      1. no updates

   4. @Cindy Wong - vacation 07/23-07/24

      1. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ahpFRCdy2mUmxu1pDXLcWQjDrYqrOXBl?usp=drive_link

         1. Recording has been shared with the EAB and EC (avail in materials folder)

         2. Survey results, only 3/6 responded: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LGEid5wef3DcKn9Q3Kpj2WS01WQSgvbWWz3bWVTMfus/edit?usp=sharing

      2. 1-1 EAB & ACO: Scheduled for Wed, Jul 22, 2026

         1. Topic needed; meeting is only an hour

            1. what do they see as critical documentation

      3. 1-1 EAB & RP: To be scheduled, will follow up when Eric returns from vacation

   5. @Dina Meek

      1. Comms

         1. Focused on PEARC preparations/communications

         2. Continuing work on campaign targeting community colleges (shifted from humanities)

      2. Web

         1. Focused on login/registration updates and now updating language/links around all sites needing to reflect these changes

   6. @Kimberly Bruch

      1. In HPC wire for the 4th week in a row.

   7. @Misha Shah -

      1. no updates

   8. @Shannon Bradley

      1. Worked with Cindy to get placeholder for Fall meeting out with Hotel booking link

      2. Working on financial historical project with Misha and Charlotte - did encumbrances clear once or twice when we cleared hanging old expenses from years past?

      3. Quarterly report - PY5 Q1

      4. Start working on Metrics for PY 5

      5. Goals - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1guE9HK0khmDUyHwg1RM5wJfghxn5oUL_g33BXqtzJaA/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0#heading=h.8n45r4j37lg2 - should these be the PY5 goals?

         1. answered and updated in the report

   9. @Lisa Kaczmarczyk

      1. waiting on Sharon for what she will be doing in PY6

Next Meeting: Jul 8, 2026

Reference

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FFGMv7qdoKtHMy_zyyjFLdBMVmCDJY6QDGXSxp_988I/edit?usp=sharing