2024-07-30 ACCESS EC Meeting Agenda & Summary
Attendees:
RAMPS: Stephen Deems (v), Dave Hart
MATCH: Shelley Knuth (v), Alana Romanella
CONECT: Tim Boerner (v), Leslie Froeschl
MMS: Tom Furlani (v), Joe White
RP: Jeremy Fischer
OpenCI: John Towns (v), Shawn Strande, Lavanya Podila, Lisa Kaczmarczyk, Shannon Bradley
NSF: Tom Gulbransen, Sharon Geva
SDSC: Amitava Majumdar - helping in light of Shawn’s departure
Guest Speaker - Dina Meek
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Agenda/Notes
Web Standing Committee Discussion @Dina Meek (15 mins)
Dina present on new web development - landing pages by persona
Dave - Welcome to Access - recommends using more of a tagline instead of spelling out what ACCESS stands for
Link to screenshot - https://xd.adobe.com/view/538303d9-2564-4f75-a9ba-be8fb1f13402-06d0/ - with comment capability
Shelly - liked the version where the stories were higher in the page than the buttons - getting started page could be a good home page
Stephen - looking at what features should be on the top bar - taking away team links
Looking at how to get people to places that are not in the top navigation bar
Tom - likes having only 2 clicks to start reading - what happened to discussion of what are the top ticket questions - should the pull downs be what we are asked about by customers - Dina likes the cross check
Shawn - when would this be live? Dina - will need month of August to finish the build - hoping for September
This will start from the ACOs site - and then each team will still manage their own websites
Shawn - this work is getting persona presented on the main page - Then they need to finalize what is in each persona section - how does the web team anticipate getting feedback/reviews? Dina - they want to work closely with EC
John - the Getting started page is just a place with links - if that could be merged with the starting page - that would be nice - looking at reducing the number of clicks
Cindy has a recording of when this was presented to the EAB if anyone wants: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1ZAzsDTPcV3GhL14iBWpj-i3htQE9Qr_4
ACO transition with Shawn leaving (@John Towns ) (5 mins)
SDSC fill in - Amitava (Amit) Majumdar
Approval of summaries from prior EC meeting @John Towns (5 mins)
Program Milestone Check @John Towns (5 mins)
program wide activities - need to talk to Eval group first - they will be talking to EC soon before those can be discussed
Shelley - Resource Selector and what we will do about it - this is not on the milestone check
Catalog vision is still being worked on by the developers
Could this be scheduled at a future meeting?
Nothing needs to be held up for Shelley’s conversation re overlapping efforts and how not to step on other teams “toes” - is there still a decision that needs to be made by the PIs?
It is good to discuss how teams feel about approaches - but there is not a need for PIs to decide
But all the teams need to build together and coalesce on the efforts
Tom wants a time and date for when this will be finished discussion and work completed - what gets us to a decision
Link to BETA resource catalog: ACCESS Resource Catalog Development Prototype - The “helping people select resources” is NOT_YET captured in this vision
Link to “overview” of the Resource initiatives: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mulXkrosPYO39Z_VwOH5F8pCkzv_suZxPrb_u3laBoI/edit#slide=id.g2e8ebe4a6da_0_34
Stephen - they do have some things that would benefit from getting EC input on
Stephen will bring this to the EC next week
Informational Items (10 mins)
RP Forum @Jeremy Fischer - none
Allocations Stephen Deems
MS-CC All-Hands Presentation Follow-up (Link to Slides & Recording)
We’re beyond the “What is ACCESS?” and “How do I get an Allocation?” phase.
More and more questions are coming from the community that relate to finding available resources (e.g. AI models, datasets, software, etc.) and it’s uninspiring to answer questions with “you need to check with the individual RPs..”
Tapia Conference
September 18-20 in San Diego, CA. (Link to Registration Page)
The purchase of a presenter engagement (booth) has gone through. Will be working with Dina/Comms about getting materials (similar setup to PEARC).
Would be great to have additional hands on deck to help work the booth/table - we do have 1 free registration
MATCH Shelley Knuth/Alana
prepping for next set of workshops - being more inclusive with other communities - a couple are taking place next month
RP workshop at the beginning of September
CONECT Tim Boerner/Leslie
Need slide deck for ACCESS overview that includes opportunities for CSSI and Cybertraining PIs for NSF CSSI and Cybertraining PI meeting (Winona and/or Dave to present 15 overview)
need content on CSSI - cybertraining opportunities
Can we get confirmation that the Sept QM will end by noon on Thursday 9/26 (can plan flights home that afternoon?) - John hasn’t looked at the agenda - Lavanya confirms
MMS Tom Furlani
xdmod 11.0 released next week
OpenCI John Towns
Planning for September in-person QM - Lavanya is reconvening planning group again! Need a representative from Support - so far no one is volunteering - remember this is not logistics this is only Agenda
Planning for next virtual EAB meeting - need agenda topics suggested for this as well
Chair is prepping a summary of the last meeting
EC Charter will be upcoming as well
Misc Topics:
SCIPE-CIP Forum Charter @Tom Gulbransen - would they benefit from us eventually contacting them in a couple months
Sharon - get support for NAIRR pilot - How do RPs who get a ticket they can’t handle - get it to the right person for support - This could be the next expansion - we will be looking at when it would be right to approach
Parking Lot
Next EC Meeting: 6th August 2024
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Reference:
Risk Register: https://access-ci.atlassian.net/jira/core/projects/RR/board
Project Change Request: https://access-ci.atlassian.net/jira/core/projects/PCR/board