Participants: Linda Akli, Chris Hempel, Dana Brunson, Jay Alameda, Karla Gendler, Marques Bland, Kate Cahill, Maytal Dahan, Kelly Gaither, Marisa Brasil, Alex Rocha, Susan Mehringer, Juan Martinez Ramirez,
Action items:
Notes/Agenda:
- Important Dates
- 5/17: RY2 Annual Report and PY8 Plan due
- All L3 text due today
- 6/6-6/7: XSEDE Quarterly Meeting
- 6/11: NSF Annual Review
- Format similar to what we did last year; ran it in parallel sessions; CEE and ECSS together, XCI & Ops & PgO together;
- Trying to be more proactive; review committee doesn’t want to be talked at in terms of we hit our targets;
- Need to reformat so that everyone talks about both the tangible and intangible; for example, in Campus Engagement, redefine the idea of what a cyber practitioner; things want to elevate up to a major impact; want to tell stories
- Would like to see the reports written that way; that’s hard
- How can you prove some of this impact? We can’t prove the negative; we can show the progression and the momentum; can say we have provided a platform through the XSEDE/PEARC conference;
- Always hard to call things out as it is not a solo effort; collaboration with other XSEDE groups and outside of XSEDE makes it hard to say it is just one group;
- Highlights need to be suggested; we will find where they go;
- Trying to bring back longitudinal studies;
- For UII – from standpoint of capability that you enable, what is the impact of that? What does it mean? Are we current, are we ahead of the game?
- Linda – didn’t report but Code of Conduct was developed; co-led; KG to recommend it has a project-wide
- Kelly thinks this is an imperative review as to how XSEDE will compete in the future
- 7/22-7/26: PEARC18
- General Announcements– Kelly
- Annual Report
- 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
- Staff Evaluation Feedback
- WBS area updates
- Workforce Development – Jennifer
- Training – Susan
- Will send additional highlights
- Scott L - would like to get more information for advertising; question has been bounced around; we don’t give out that type of information; it’s a privacy thing;
- Will check with Lizanne and Lorna regarding lists that are sent to moderators for their in-person training - DONE 5/3/2018: Shared information confirmed ok.
- Student Programs – Rosie
- Education – Jennifer/Kate
- Kelly is working on PIF that Kate submitted to answer questions and clarify;
- EMPOWER – 11 new students working over the summer; 5 of those funded to attended PETASCALE institute; one of the current students presented at ACS national symposium this spring
- Workshops
- Computational Chemistry
- Parallel Computing Curriculum Development
- Both workshops full
- User Engagement – Chris
- Input is in for the annual report
- Sent out 7700 contact emails; 100% contact for ¾ quarters; 171 actionable items; 156 resolved;
- Broadening Participation – Linda
- Splitting travel support for 6 for Computation Chemistry workshop; trying to do mostly lodging and will cover airfare for some; had one that requested Uber; didn’t want to create barriers and gave John guidance
- Waiting for numbers for second workshop
- Data Sciences Institute – at least one request
- MSI Champions – trying to figure out numbers and may have more for PEARC
- 4 workshops coming up
- Cal State Los Angeles: 60 underepresented STEM students funded by NASA; Saturday school; how to get them to use UNIX, Linux, etc; Oct – Feb; has potential to become an interesting model; will also do standard workshop
- Morgan State
- Hampton
- UTEP: national Hispanic partnership
- Computing4Change – SigHPC is hosting at SC18, turned into a competition; 16 spots and has 94 applications; have to write a statement on a social topic that they find interesting and important;
- UII – Maytal
- Working on documentation improvements; next sign off on the website; various improvements to pages;
- Will work on impact highlights for the report
- Maytal did a great job on the panel in CA; maybe be brought in for Computing4Change
- Campus Engagement – Dana and Henry
- University of Guam is now involved so have every state and every EPSCoR jurisdiction;
- Dana talked to Kevin at NSF and walked through the slides regarding the threads on email lists and complete change; now part of Champion list
- Very optimistic about cyberinfrastructure community coming together
- PEARC champion networking event – trying to figure out what day; probably Monday
- Elections, 10 year anniversary, working sustainability into everything
- Had a good discussion about the Champion climate survey
- 7 applications for Fellows program
- Need to mention how Champions collaborate throughout XSEDE