Mark your calendars for these upcoming People Network calls (Zoom details at the end). We also highlight other calls from our RCD ecosystem peers, as these events touch many, if not all, in our community.
Please mark your calendars for these upcoming People Network and CaRCC Activity Group Calls (Zoom details at the end), as well as Calls from our RCD ecosystem peers. For handy calendar entries, try the CaRCC People Network Calendar (GCal view; calendar integration). And if you’re not on our mailing lists, you can join via our Members page and join our Slack channels.
Monthly CaRCC Welcome
Tue, 4/1, 2p ET/ 1p CT/ 12p MT/ 11a PT (1st Tue)
Come to learn more about CaRCC’s community-powered organization and opportunities, and feel free to bring along or pass the word to colleagues. These use the same Zoom coordinates as our People Network calls (see further below).
CaRCC People Network Calls
Data-Facing Track (1st Tuesdays)
Tue 5/6, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11a MT/ 10a PT
Accessibility Awareness Month
Abigail Goben and Sebastian Karcher will join to discuss their work with disability researcher Randy Colón in developing a call to action around accessible data.
Strategy and Policy-Facing Track (1st Wednesdays)
Wed 5/7, 12p ET/ 11a CT/ 10a MT/ 9a PT/ 10a PT
Planning for Resilience (not recorded)
Raminder Singh, Senior Director, FAS Research Computing, Harvard University
Kristin Lepping, Director, Business Operations and Research Partnerships, Rutgers University
Ruth Marinshaw, Executive Director, Research Computing Technologies, Yale
How can RCD organizations best prepare themselves for new leadership, changes in organizational structures, periods of financial uncertainty, and evolving technology, or shifts in institutional priorities? Please join us on May 7 at 2PM ET/ 11AM CT to hear a panel of RCD leaders discuss their practices and strategies for preparing times of uncertainty and change. We hope to have a lively question and answer session, so please come prepared to your own thoughts and questions.
Please note that this call will not be recorded.
Researcher-Facing Track (2nd Thursdays)
Thu 5/8, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11a MT/ 10a PT
Accessibility in Action: Simplifying Language and Enhancing Web Inclusivity
Rob Carr, CPACC, Strategic Accessibility Coordinator at WebAIM
Julie Clement, representative from the Center for Plain Language
Join us for an insightful discussion on accessibility, focusing on the importance of clear and inclusive communication. Our first speaker will represent the Center for Plain Language, emphasizing how simplifying language can make information more accessible to a broader audience. Additionally, we will have a representative from WebAIM, who will share valuable insights on web accessibility and best practices for creating inclusive digital experiences. This meeting aims to provide practical strategies and foster a deeper understanding of how we can all contribute to a more accessible and inclusive environment.
Systems-Facing Track (3rd Thursdays)
Thu 5/15, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11a MT/ 10a PT
Accessibility Tools for Linux System Administrators
This session will explore various tools and workflows that extend the capabilities of system administrators in GNU/Linux environments. This session will share methods for navigating server hardware, performing maintenance tasks, and managing installations using both talking and automated installers. The talk will provide an overview of console and graphical screen readers like Speakup and Orca, as well as hardware and software speech synthesis from a system administration standpoint.
Emerging Centers Track (3rd Wednesdays)
Wed 5/21, 12p ET/ 11a CT/ 10a MT/ 9a PT
Accessibility Month: Swarthmore College’s Approach to Integrating Accessibility Across the Institution
Jen Moore, Course Content Accessibility Manager, Swarthmore College
Corrine Schoeb, Digital Accessibility Program Manager, Swarthmore College
Swarthmore takes a proactive—and somewhat uncommon—approach to integrating accessibility across all levels of the institution. Corrine Schoeb is the Digital Accessibility Program Manager and leads these efforts with a strong commitment to embedding accessibility into everyday work. By approaching accessibility from a strategic, institution-wide perspective, Swarthmore has identified a number of unexpected opportunities, many of which have resulted in systems and processes that enhance the experiences of the broader campus community.
Jen Moore, MSEd and CPACC (she/they) joined the accessibility team as Course Content Accessibility Manager in 2022, where they have focused on creating a system to handle the increasing volume and complexity of accessible course material requests. As the eldest of five and first in their family to attend college, Jen is committed to equity, which is reflected in their leadership of student workers who are building systems to and are actively remediating inaccessible course content. Jen is also an Assistant Softball Coach at Swarthmore College.
Additional Community Opportunities
Thu 5/15, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11am MT/ 10a PT (1st Thursdays): RCD Mentoring Working Group Monthly Meet-Up. Join us for our May RCD Mentoring Working Group session as we continue building out our mentorship program! This month we’ll continue to have breakout conversations around the three teams developing the program: the applications process, mentor details, and mentee details. Meeting coordinates: Zoom Session URL. Join the workforce-mentoring-wg@carcc.org mailing list or send questions to RCD Staff and Student Workforce Mentoring Coordinators.
Tue 5/13, 1p ET/ 10a PT (2nd Tuesdays): RCD Capabilities Model Office Hours. Have questions about getting started, completing, or viewing benchmarking data with the Research Computing and Data Capabilities Model? Or are you already working with it and want to discuss suggestions for improvements you’d like to see? Meeting coordinates: Zoom Session URL. Join the capsmodel-discuss@carcc.org mailing list or send questions to capsmodel-help@carcc.org.
Tue 5/13, 2p ET/ 1p CT/ 12p MT/ 11a PT (2nd Tuesdays): RCD Staff and Student Workforce Development Interest Groups. Career Arcs: Stories from Women Building Systems Professionals Careers in RCD. Join us for the May Staff and Student Workforce Development Community Call as we hear from two remarkable professionals who transitioned into research computing and data (RCD) systems roles from other career paths. This session will highlight their unique journeys, the skills they carried forward, and how they navigated their way into technical roles within the RCD space. Our guest speakers include Blaise Hartman, User Services Lead, NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division, and Taylor Graham, Research Solutions Hardware Engineer, Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, Purdue University. Zoom Session URL (Meeting ID: 867 2543 9159 passcode 165236). Join the Interest Group mailing list.
Wed, 5/14, 2p ET/ 11a PT (2nd Wednesdays): Regulated Research Community of Practice (RRCoP) Community Discussions. This month, the topic will be What’s In or Out? Compliance Check-In presented by Laura Raderman. With regulations changing so quickly, and the rumor mill churning, what’s the current state of information security regulations that apply to research? Join RRCoP for an overview of regulations “in-flight” and recently implemented to learn what we know, what we expect, and what rumors exist. Please use this Zoom link, and contact info@regulatedresearch.org or Carolyn Ellis with any questions.
Fri 5/8, 2p ET/ 11a PT (2nd Thursdays/2nd Fridays): US Research Software Engineers monthly community call. See https://us-rse.org/calendar/ for more information.
Mondays 4p ET/ 3p CT/ 2p MT/ 1p PT: OSG Consortium / PATh Project host weekly Campus Office Hours for questions about campus- or center-level participation, Mondays at 3:00–3:30 pm US Central Time. You are invited to join us any week. https://osg-htc.org/campus-office-hours-zoom. For more information, please contact Christina Koch.
CaRCC Calls and Zoom
All CaRCC People Network calls will take place within a Zoom room communicated via email and visible in the CaRCC People Network Google calendar (see top). Please help us keep these details secure (non-public), but feel free to share with a colleague.
Interested members of the People Network need not subscribe to a particular track to participate in calls. Additional details for track members, including notes documents and any pre-call activities, will be distributed ahead of the call via the email lists and other communication channels within each track.