Participants: Aaron Weeden, Dana Brunson, Marques Bland, Karla Gendler, Doug James, Susan Mehringer, Sandy Kappes, Weddie Jackson, Kelly Gaither, Alex Rocha
Action items:
Notes/Agenda:
- Important Dates
- 5/15: RY2 Annual Report and PY8 Plan due
- 6/11: NSF Annual Review
- 7/22-7/26: PEARC18
- General Announcements– Kelly
- PY8 Planning
- Didn’t change our priorities, more refining our metrics to more adequately capture impact
- Two things we’ve had to correct for
- Money with PSC for training webinars
- Kate is putting in PIF to work with Berkeley on parallel computing course – need more details but looking at how to explain how to expand out to other institutions
- Get SP Forum feedback tomorrow
- Some of CEE’s Area Metrics have moved up to project-wide
- Feedback from XAB in Chicago in mid-late April
- Always looking for highlights especially for the NSF review; anecdotally and/or numbers; examples could be with the students and how they have come through XSEDE and where they are now
- WBS area updates
- Workforce Development – Jennifer
- Training – Susan
- Ongoing workshops, training, review cycles, badges, etc
- Roadmaps: format has been finalized; talking about how to do updates and make changes; got some great suggestions from Kate
- YouTube: the first videos with light editing were put on the channel and the second series is about ready to go
- Student Programs – Rosie
- Education – Jennifer/Kate
- Getting many people to sign up for the summer computational chemistry workshop
- Clark Atlanta University – intro to XSEDE for professors from various institutions
- EMPOWER – reviewing student applications for summer program; been reviewing progress reports from spring interns
- User Engagement – Chris
- Chris has done a tremendous job of the one-on-one interaction/emails
- Closing the loop – user requests are tracked to resolution
- Will be picking up and help in CE from a user perspective; help out with some of the contact
- Broadening Participation – Linda
- UII – Maytal
- Campus Engagement – Dana and Henry
- Making a bucket list of all the things that they would like to do
- Survey of the Champions
- Trying to get more at the value and impact of the Champions program from the Champions themselves
- PEARC – have a lot going on, working with ER to do a video on the anniversary of the Champions program;
- Fellows applications open
- About to open Champions Leadership election
- On Sustainability working group, spent talking about survey and how to get at value of the program; look at regional programs;
- John Towns joined Championship Leadership call