2024-09-17 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), Amit Majumdar , Lavanya Podila, Lisa Kaczmarczyk, Shannon Bradley

• NSF: Tom Gulbransen, Sharon Geva

• Guest Speaker:

(v) indicates a voting member

Decisions made during the meeting:

Agenda/Notes

1. Approval of summaries from prior EC meeting John Towns (5 mins)

   1. 2024-09-10 ACCESS EC Meeting Agenda & Summary
      

2. Discussion of EC Charter review issues John Towns (20 mins)

   1. Document: ACCESS EC Charter (September 2024)

   2. First topic: important item from EC Charter review

      1. quorum for a meeting - requires representation from all awardees (all 5) - we can discuss, but make no official decisions if we don’t have a quorum

      2. should we retain this, or change?

   3. Definition of Purpose: need to sort out comments from Tim and Dave

   4. Membership: This is cleaner up quite a bit

      1. NSF: Solicitation states NSF CPO(s) as “observers.” Is this correct language?

      2. Need to determine of RP Forum chair is voting or non-voting

      3. Member vs participant vs observer

   5. Role of the ACO: see exchange between Dave and John on this in comments

      1. perhaps list ACO participants (not formal members) here?

      2. if not, should we move this somehow?

   6. EC voting:

      1. should only voting members of the EC be able to call for a vote?

   7. Voting rights: Strike this section?

   8. Meetings and quorum

   9. WGs and SCs:

      1. WGs;

         1. see comments in doc regarding when appropriate
            

3. Panel Review Summary John Towns (15 mins)

   1. [deferred until next EC meeting]

4. RP Workshop debrief and next steps Shelley Knuth (15 mins)

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5. EC Action Items from Quarterly Meetings John Towns (10 mins)
   
   

6. EC Program Milestones John Towns (5 mins)

4. EC Meeting To Dos:

5. Report-out from RP Meeting in Boston Shelley Knuth

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6. RP Presence @ ACCESS Quarterly Meetings (10 mins) Stephen Deems Shelley Knuth Jeremy Fischer

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7. Informational Items (10 mins)

   1. RP Forum Jeremy Fischer

   2. Allocations Stephen Deems

   3. MATCH Shelley Knuth/Alana

   4. CONECT Tim Boerner/Leslie

   5. MMS Tom Furlani

   6. EAB Chuck P

   7. OpenCI John Towns
      

Misc Topics:

Next EC Meeting: 24th September 2024

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