Discussion about developing sustaining community ties within the folks served by XCRI
- We have a number of folks who can benefit from sustained activity between sites that have had site visits or have used XCRI toolkits
- There's potential for getting folks interested in a sustained community
- Also helpful to hook people into the broader national conversation: SIGHPC, CASC, CARCC, etc
- Conversation covered some surveys and polls, settled on Focus Group and a BoF at PEARC
- Focus Group
- This Spring, recruit people from site visit recipients, other users
- Create a set of questions that guide inquiry
- Produce set of reflections from the community and potentially identify future engaged actors
- BOF at PEARC 22 - deadline in April for proposal
- Bring initial findings to wider community
- Potential to include others who are interested in creating sustained CI communities
- Involve other XSEDE elements (and further?), if interested
- Possibility that we might be able to direct some funds to travel for PEARC
- Artifact: Workshop or BoF report format, something that contributors have coauthorship of and future continuation
- Action items
- Rich to start a google doc with some of the potential focus group questions:
- Rich to email our site visit folks to ask about willingness to participate in the focus group meet