2023-10-11 Meeting notes

Dina

Christine/team

Charter

GTM/Google Analytics

Sprint to Assist New Users

We are a working group who needs to become a standing committee

Charter Template

• Dina will continue as Chair

• Team will consider if they can support as Co-Chair

• John Towns has volunteered to be our EC sponsor

Discussed what we wanted to track as a team

• Nathan suggested we might come up with what we want to track and work together on how to implement

Christine preview the continued work for the Getting Started content:

Home - Access

Nathan shared in Slack feedback from the Allocation team’s review of our proposed updates:

for “Home - ACCESS”, in addition to “at no cost” - can we loop in something regarding “no supporting grants are required”?for “About-ACCESS” do we need to mention XSEDE? I don’t think so, especially since that hyperlink is broken. We could put in language like “builds upon decades of investment by NSF…”for “Get Started-ACCESS”, #3 can we rephrase to “Prepare and Request an Allocation”?Under “Upon Approval” eliminate “spend and” and just say “to exchange”.

Discussed:

• Science Gateways are ok to play down right now - that integration isn’t quite ready

• Putting metrics back into landing page blocks

  • we can ultimately add a third row if needed

• Will combine the second and third sections

Next Steps

• After next round of revisions by Q, Nathan to loop in Allocations site developer so we can compare

Previous notes:

• Nathan showed new Allocations landing page

  • We like the stats - could this be on other pages? ACO landing page?

  • mentioned a list of nine steps might seem a lot to “get started.”

• Andrew suggested group eligibility and account creation steps together and the resources and allocations steps together

• We also want to make the color blocks linkable

• JP noted Science Gateways should be grouped with the RP block and suggested that block move to the far right position as the smallest audience

• The team generally felt this was a good direction, but a list of steps was still needed

• We decided to not include Science Gateway information in the list of “tools” since this program’s story is not completely understood. We can revisit this at our next meeting.

• Some discussion on where to include PI’s. We can revisit this at our next meeting.

New Users

• Possibly have a “join” button next to login to very quickly drive new users to a page that then guided them

Christine shared layout with “Get Started” in the “Welcome to ACCESS” box on access-ci.org hero image

Andrew suggests we promote that it’s FREE in a bigger sense than we have to date

JP brought up that not all new visitors are researchers; we also need to address cyberinfrastructure providers such as RPs

Andrew mentioned there will soon be a tool Support is building to help new users identify the best possible resources for their project

Review guidelines and bring thoughts to next meeting

• Need to decide on Co-chair.

• Can we asynchronously add thoughts to the Charter template by 10/11?

• Team decided Dina would do first draft and team would respond (either together or asynchronously); due date - 10/25

Q will update language on homepage and also remove “federal” on the FAQ funding questions. Also fix where the period lies in the answer.

Q will also remove the link to the old XSEDE site, but will leave the reference to XSEDE (for context).

Q will update the language around “spend and”