2022-09-14 OpenCI Leadership Meeting Agenda & Summary

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Last updated: Sept 14, 2022 by Jay Alameda
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Attendees:

  • Present: Jay Alameda, Cynthia Dillon, Shawn Strande, Cindy Wong, Ron Payne, Lizanne DeStefano, John Towns, Dina Meek, Lavanya Podila

Agenda/Notes

  • Debrief on EC meeting @John Towns

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  • Communications Update@Dina Meek

    • Website

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    • Branding request to use the track specific logos for track specific communications and the general ACCESS logo for program-level communications. To be raised to the EC at the EC meeting.

    • Newsletters / Emails to the community (pre-newsletter communications)

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    • SC22

      • Draft SC communications plan in the works

      • What are our expectations for SC22 - what level of effort funded to travel to SC, who should travel, etc.

  • EAB Updates @Shawn Strande

  • Community Engagement Update@Jay Alameda

    • Initial meeting 9/13/2022

      • Working group level of formality, bi-weekly meeting frequency

        • Coordination and information sharing, rather than policy setting

      • Operations will be naming someone to this group to replace PI Tim Boerner (who was standing in temporarily)

      • Community Discussion:

        • Allocations

          • User community

            • Wide variety of experience levels

            • expand into communities not previously using resources

            • Broadening PI eligibility to include students

            • scalable broadening participation: partnering with external projects

            • Make more appealing to students, especially undergraduates

            • work closely with Support Track

        • Support

          • User community (now called researcher community)

            • focus: undergrads, grads, faculty, staff, ci professionals

            • knowledge base: free, open, available, also pages in confluence

            • affinity groups with CSSN: self-run

            • match plus: small funding to match students with projects, 6 months maximum

            • match premium: PI brings funding, support matches students

            • very limited staff

        • Operations

          • Resource providers > broadening community of resource providers

        • Metrics

          • Originally, community was NSF, providing information about NSF-funded facilities

          • Now:

            • Resource providers & efficiency of their resources

            • Tertiary: end users and supporting end users

  • OpenCI PEP Update @John Towns

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  • Evaluation Update @Lizanne DeStefano (Unlicensed)

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Next Meeting: 21 September 2022