Agenda

Attending: Brad Christ, Dave Robinson, Christine Miki, Ann West, Laura Paglione, Kristi Holmes , Marc Wallman, Chris Misra, Rachana Ananthakrishanan

With: Elaine Alejo, Kevin Morooney, Steve Zoppi, Rob Carter, David Bantz, Albert Wu, Keith Wessel, Mike Erickson

Regrets: Jeremy Livingston

Minutes:  

New Committee Members

    • Marc Wallman and  Dave Robinson are at the end of their term (interested in serving again), Mike Berman has moved off.
    • Committee could stay at 11 or build out to 13 seats

Community Planning 

  • Kevin gave a brief  overview of 2009 futures report- and mentioned that during leadership exchange Marc and Kevin discussed that it was timely to repeat this process.
  • CACTI, CTAB, and TAC  have all had similar conversations about the need for engaging the community around direction.
  • Group thoughts about Developing the next InCommon futures report  :
    • Between changes of market, identity and user level, the benefit is measurable and paid over a longer period of time.  
    • The success of the past futures report is remarkable. It would be good to have a strategic document and vision  
    • There is a lot of potential we have as a community going forward. Now is the time.  We have a robust community 
    • Kevin asked Is this something that steering should lead for the community?
      •  It would be the logical next step. Now is the right time to do this. 
      • This would allow us to explore strategic topics  
      • The service need is so broad, timely and a good idea and we will only benefit going through it. InCommon has done an excellent job. I'm not working with the research or technical side as much but I've seen the support. Others agreed
    •  Beyond the commercial solutions, the research ecosystem has changed quite a bit, with investments and application development that is relatively new. Learning what is needed there today and in the next ten years would inform us, especially tooling and services. See changes in investment on research.
    • A big difference now is that the corporate sector is a part of our community now, we need to provide value to the whole ecosystem.
    • Good reminder that we have a number of different intersections . Everything we do on our campus is very collaborative.  
    • Others appreciate the direction from Steering and believe it is absolutely vital that we do this. Good number of institutions with a shift of just being a partner to being a cost center to eliminate costs. 
    • This is the end result of a maturation process, not a bad thing. 

The following Volunteered to help work on this: Marc Wallman, Laura Paglione, Chris Misra, Christine Miki and Rachana Ananthakrishanan

Next step is to convene the group and develop a proposal for Steering on how this planning exercise could proceed.


Meeting adjourned 




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