Attending: Brad Christ, Christine Miki, Kristi Holmes, Rachana Anantharishnan, Laura Paglione, Jim Stewart, Chris Misra, Marc Wallman, Jeff Erickson, Ann West, Dave Robinson,
With: Steve Zoppi, Jean Chorazyczewski, Keith Wessel, David Bantz, Apryl Motley, Albert Wu, Kevin Morooney, Margaret Cullen, Elaine Alejo
Regrets: Bernie Gulachek
Agenda:
- Acceptance of the InCommon Technical Advisory Committee 2022 Accomplishments Report
- Review of progress on the InCommon Futures2 Project
- (As time allows) An update on upcoming browser changes and their potential impact to global R&E federations
Minutes:
Introduction of Jeff Erickson (NIH) to the group
TAC accomplishments acceptance report- Keith
Motion made by Ann West and seconded by Brad Christ to accept
Everyone in favor, no one opposed
Report accepted
Futures2 slide deck presented by Ann West
Goals of the report were discussed with some of those being: Continue to provide value to Higher Ed and Research in ways pertinent to the needs of the future, provide strategic direction-What, Why, Who; Capture the attention of key partners, Focus on the future
Thoughts from Steering on why we need to move forward and how we make this topic relevant to a larger audience were discussed. Some of those being
- We need to produce a document that inspires and brings folks to the table to talk through this. Other thoughts on how does this affect Student life cycles, courses and their student life. Working to create a story that informs the "C" suite regarding what we think you will need in the future and where we can help them. This would set the stage for futures followup gatherings.
- We should keep research front and center.
- We need to start off with a problem statement
- Higher Ed has been the primary audience for Internet2 since the beginning as we don't serve K-12 directly. Some would like to see more small colleges and K12 engaged
The Futures planning group is meeting every 2 weeks starting March 15th and looking to have a sharable draft by Dec. 1, 2023. The agreed approach is as follows
Phase 1 Define and Scope
Phase 2 Explore and Analyze
Phase 3 Strategies and recommendations
Kevin Morooney and Marc Wallman will be reporting out in May at the community Exchange.
Kevin added: I think we’re also bumping into various kinds of complexity, too. Complexity of: deployment, use cases, etc. As I see this, this leads with use case complexity. Also, historically, aiming for solutions that solve the most complex use cases have generally solved the less complex use cases, well.
There was a discussion on end user engagement as not needing to be direct and folks could pass it on to their end users. Some added that they collect information separately , and the feedback they get from end users is current. Visionary perspective needs to be tapped into, it's important. Comments were, perhaps we create the expectation of those we engage, to put the “end user” first or high up in their considerations. From a research perspective we might want to reach the PIs and architects.
Ann went over the draft of core groups to engage. It was agreed that the QUILT group is worth talking to.
Next Steps:
After Dec we would engage the community more broadly
Once approved- we would canvas the Who identified in the planning phase for user stories and begin collecting requirements
Browser Changes pushed to next months meeting
Meeting adjourned
Next Meeting: April 3, 2023