Meeting Minutes
Members Present: Dora Gicheva, Jing Deng, Jeff Labban, Jeff Whitworth, Kim Littlefield, Prashanti Manda, Richard Cox, Yirong Mo, Thomas McCoy
Absent: John Wilse
Guests: None
Old Business
Being the inaugural meeting, there was no old business.
New Business
- Committee members introduced themselves
- Jeff W and Kim provided an overview of the committee, it’s purpose and preliminary deliverables. The committee agreed by consensus to start with the following deliverables:
- (decision) Producing an annual report for the ESC in December of each year
- (decision) Develop a short-term priorities list for the ESC
- (decision) Review previous ITS survey results and determine if a new survey is needed
- The committee discussed the need to have a better understanding of what CyberInfrastructure is. Jeff W. mentioned that some agencies have a specific definition and we may want to consider aligning, especially for funding purposes.
- The committee agreed that they are all seeing an increase in CI needs, especially among newer faculty.
Action Items
- Jeff W will look for the previous ITS survey results around research computing needs and share with the group.