2022-09-28 OpenCI Leadership Meeting Agenda & Summary

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

  • What to do about ACCESS Community Slack channel? https://app.slack.com/client/T03T9KZKP7H/C03THJT91D4

    • Ron/Lavanya will add to next week’s EC meeting

• EAB Updates @Shawn Strande

  • Draft Charter

  • Survey for submitting EAB nominations: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfVMSu6SO21_P0NKyUUH1qWESkIqcH2HgnvPZq0V9-70a1g8A/viewform?pli=1

  • Action: Team will review above survey and provide feedback to Cindy; Shawn will draft call for nominations e-mail for team review. Will discuss distro channels: ACCESS newsletter, HCPwire, NSF Newsletter

• Community Engagement Update@Jay Alameda

  • Second Community Building and Engagement meeting 9/27/2022

    • Summary notes: 2.0 September 27, 2022: Community Building and Engagement and DEI plans

      • Key points

        • Lack of DEI plans in majority of tracks (notable exception: Allocations)

        • Support for developing cross-cutting Community Building and Engagement Plan at the ACO level.

        • Would like to invite @Lizanne DeStefano (Unlicensed) to one of our meetings to discuss metrics and measurement, in particular, on how to track progress with DEI plans.

      • Did share XSEDE Annual Report RY6 and pointed to metrics relevant to improving new and sustained users from historically underrepresented groups
        
        

• OpenCI PEP Update @John Towns

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• Evaluation Update @Lizanne DeStefano (Unlicensed)

• Ticketing working group @Shawn Strande

  • Action: Shawn will reach out to Winona and ask how ACO can be involved given the meeting time conflicts with ACO/NSF meeting.

Next Meeting: 5 October 2022