2023-04-03 NSF - OpenCI Meeting Agenda & Summary

Attendees:

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

Agenda/Notes

1. New inputs or feedback from community, teams, or NSF @John Towns (5 mins)
   
   

2. NSF Annual Review Meeting Draft Agenda @John Towns (5 mins)
   Time (EDT) Topic
   10:00-10:10am NSF-OAC/Project Welcome & Introductions
   10:10-10:40am Session 1: OpenCI/ACO Project Opening Remarks (30 mins) (Towns)
   10:40-11:20am Session 2: Program Governance & Advisory Support (40 mins) (Towns/Strande)
   11:20-11:30am Break (10 mins)
   11:30am-12:15pm Session 3: Communication & Outreach (45 mins); (Meek)
   12:15-1:00pm Session 4: Community Building & Engagement (45 mins) (Alameda)
   1:00-2:00pm Break for lunch (60 mins)
   2:00-2:45pm Session 5: Evaluation (45 mins) (DeStefano)
   2:45-3:15pm Session 6: Project Finances (30 mins) (Payne)
   3:15-3:30pm Break (15 mins)
   3:30-4:00pm Q&A session (30 mins)
   4:00pm Wrap-up and close

3. Evaluations Update @Lizanne DeStefano (Unlicensed) (10 mins)

   1. Foci/scope of the week -

   2. Open or Emerging Risks/Issues

   3. Successes or achievements
      
      

4. Communications Update @Dina Meek (10 mins)

   1. Foci/scope of the week

      1. Website – Finalizing Resource Provider page to present to RP Forum next week; other pages including Collaboration information and how to share news and events via ACCESS channels.

      2. Events/PEARC – Presenting Comms plan to the Communications team for feedback

      3. Newsletters – The ACCESS Advance comes out this week

   2. Open or Emerging Risks/Issues – Review process for training videos (John to bring to the EC)

   3. Successes or achievements
      
      

5. Community Engagement Update @Jay Alameda (10 mins)

   1. Foci/scope of the week

      1. Just completed Events:

         • Boise State (March 28-29, 2023: Research Computing Days March 28-29 ) Keynote - Tom Gulbransen

           • Feedback from the event

         • CASC (March 28-30, 2023): Upcoming Events “What is ACCESS” - John Towns

           • Feedback from the event

      2. Upcoming community events

         • Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Spring Meeting, April 3-4, Denver, CO Spring 2023

           • “Becoming Part of the National Cyberinfrastructure Community”, Shelley Knuth, Support

         • MS-CC Annual Meeting - May 10-11, Atlanta MS-CC - 2023 Annual Meeting

           • John Towns - advisory board member

           • Lizanne DeStefano - invited to attend

   2. Open or Emerging Risks/Issues

   3. Successes or achievements
      
      

6. Project Office Updates @Ron Payne (10 mins)

   1. Foci/scope of the week

      1. Quarterly NSF Report submission

      2. ACO Annual NSF Panel Review prep

      3. Performance Management Plan update and release

   2. Open or Emerging Risks/Issues

      1. Actively working Ticket System outage (sourced to Atlassian) that occurred on morning of 3 April 2023

   3. Successes or achievements
      
      

7. EAB Updates @Shawn Strande (10 mins)

   1. Foci/scope of the week

   2. Open or Emerging Risks/Issues

   3. Successes or achievements
      
      

8. Planned Events

   1. NSF Reviews 18-19 April 2023
      
      

9. Financial considerations

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10. Misc:
    
    

Next Meeting: 10 April 2023