Mark your calendars for these upcoming CaRCC community gatherings (Zoom details at the end). We also highlight other gatherings from our RCD ecosystem peers. For handy calendar entries, try the CaRCC Events Calendar (GCal view; integrate/add to your calendar app via this URL). If you’re not on our mailing lists, you can join here and join our Slack channels.
Save-the-Date for the End-of-Year CaRCC Party!
Thursday, December 11 from 1-2:30pm ET (calendar invite to CaRCC subscribers)
This annual tradition will include prizes for festive attire, hobby-based mingling breakouts, and topical breakouts, including opportunities to get more involved and provide feedback to CaRCC!
Monthly CaRCC Welcome
Thu, 11/6, 2p ET/ 1p CT/ 12p MT/ 12:30p PT (1st Thu)
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 bottom of this post).
CaRCC People Network Calls
Data-Facing Track (1st Tuesdays)
Tue 11/4, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11a MT/ 10a PT
PIDs for Instruments & Facilities
The FAIR Instruments and Facilities Research Coordination Network, funded in 2022 by grant awards from the NSF’s Fair and Open Science (FAIROS) program, has worked to advance the standardization and adoption of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) for research facilities and instruments nationally. Through a series of workshops intended to engage various stakeholders in the research and scholarly communications communities, the project team has developed a set of recommendations that build on previous work in the space (e.g., RRIDs, or Research Resource Identifiers) to help clarify and generalize current practices and principles around PID design and application. These recommendations have been developed with an eye toward achieving tangible outcomes for open science. Join to hear from representatives of the FAIR Instruments and Facilities Research Coordination Network to learn more about the project.
Strategy and Policy-Facing Track (1st Wednesdays)
Wed 11/5, 12p ET/ 11a CT/ 10a MT/ 9a PT
Reports and Discussions from Relevant Fall Community Meetings
Confirmed Speakers: Dana Brunson (CaRCC), Kathryn Kelley (CASC), Daphne McCanse (CaRCC)
Please join us as we hear reports from group members attending recent meetings, reporting from CaRCC, CASC and potentially EDUCAUSE. There will be short presentations from invited speakers followed by an open discussion on topics relevant to these meetings and the SFP Track community.
Researcher-Facing Track (2nd Thursdays)
Thu 11/13, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11a MT/ 10a PT
Topic TBA
Emerging Centers Track (3rd Wednesdays)
Wed 11/12, 12p ET/ 11a CT/ 10a MT/ 9a PT/ 7a HT
**Note it’s 2nd Wednesday this month to avoid SC25
Getting Started with Science DMZs, Ken Miller, Keystone REN (Research and Education Network)
In our second in a series of “Getting Started with…” monthly calls, Ken Miller from the Keystone REN will talk to us about their current NSF CC* (Campus Cyberinfrastructure) award with Penn State as the lead institution. The goal of the grant is to build a Science DMZ that can be used by a number of institutions connected to the Keystone REN.
Systems-Facing Track (3rd Thursdays)
No call this month in support of SC25 attendance. For December, S-F will be participating in the annual End-of-Year Party. See you at the first S-F call of 2026 on January 15th!
Additional Community Opportunities
Tue 11/11, 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.
Thu 11/6, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11am MT/ 10a PT (1st Thursdays): RCD Mentoring Working Group Monthly Meet-Up. Join us for our November RCD Mentoring Working Group session as we continue building out our mentorship program! 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 11/11, 2p ET/ 1p CT/ 12p MT/ 11a PT (2nd Tuesdays): RCD Workforce Development Interest Groups. Training and Travel in Tight Times: Exploring Strategies for Professional Growth Amid Budget Cuts. In this session, we’ll explore how budget cuts are reshaping access to professional development opportunities especially training programs and conference travel. See Zoom details below. Join the Interest Group mailing list.
Wed 11/12, 1p ET/ 10a PT (2nd Wednesdays): AI Facilitation Interest Group monthly gathering. Meeting coordinates: Zoom Session URL. Join here: https://carcc.org/ai-facilitation-ig/
Wed 11/12 – 2p ET/ 11a PT (2nd Wednesdays): Regulated Research Community of Practice (RRCoP) Community Discussions. This month, the topic will be Cracking into Culture: Infusing Cybersecurity into the Culture of our Research Enterprise at GTRI. The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) highlights how unconventional methods and targeted strategies have woven cybersecurity into the fabric of daily research operations, cultivating a cyber-centric culture. Please use this Zoom link, and contact info@regulatedresearch.org or Carolyn Ellis with any questions.
Thu 11/13, 12p ET/ 9a PT (2nd Thursdays/2nd Fridays): US Research Software Engineers monthly community call. See https://us-rse.org/calendar/ for more information.
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.