2024-10-07 NSF - OpenCI Meeting Agenda & Summary

Decisions made during the meeting:

Agenda/Notes

1. Updates from NSF (5 mins)

   1. Start of fiscal year for NSF
      
      

2. What have we heard from stakeholders? (5 mins)

   1. John attended the Climate summit and he had several opportunities to speak about ACCESS and sharing the resources

   2. Researchers are looking for real life applications for disaster relief and planning etc

   3. Interesting to hear from people who were not aware of ACCESS

   4. John asked if they had heard of campus champions? Only one person knew about this.

   5. Many people mentioned they had never heard of campus champions.

   6. All AI Institute meeting in Chicago that Sharon and Amit are currently attending

   7. FAIR - John will be leaving for DC, he will chair the session on - is the infrastructure ready for AI?

       

3. Area updates (10+ mins)

   1. ACO @John Towns

      1. John submitted requests for Co-Pis and these are currently in Sharon’s queue
          

   2. Evaluation @majumdar

      1. In progress, Dave sent some emails about deadlines
         
         

   3. Communications @Dina Meek

      1. Sharon/Puri - will you be at SC24 and would you like to participate in our ACCESS the Expert day at our booth

         1. Only a 1-2 hour commitment.

         2. Puri agrees to attend the session
            
            

   4. Project Office @Lavanya Podila

      1. Created IPR for July-Sept

      2. Working with Dawn in our finance office to analyze current status of finances

      3. Working with Dina's team to finalize SC related items

      4. Provided an overview of ACCESS booth at SC to Puri

      5. Sent feedback survey to all ACCESS staff
         
         

   5. EAB @Chuck P

      1. 2nd version of the charter approved

      2. Getting nominations ready

      3. EAB meeting scheduled for 21st October

      4. Reached out to EC to get questions for the EAB

      5. Working on developing the agenda

      6. Integrating milestones into the tracker in the near future

   6. @Kimberly Bruch

      1. Working on a story - CS student from Southern Oregon University hosted a session on how people can get an allocation
         
         

Next Meeting: 14th October 2024

NSF Meeting Tasks To Do