CaRCC Newcomer Welcome and Orientation
Tue August 11 2026 3:30p ET/2:30p CT/1:30p MT/12:30p PT
(Second Tuesday of each even-numbered month)
Whether you’re new to CaRCC or looking to learn more and get more involved, join us on the first Tuesday of the even months at 3:30pm ET/2:30pm CT/1:30pm MT/ 12:30pm PT for a welcome session and overview of CaRCC groups, tracks, events, and volunteer opportunities. We love meeting our newcomers, and everyone is welcome! Register now for call details!
CaRCC People Network Calls
Data-Facing Track (1st Tuesdays)
Tue July 7, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11a MT/ 10a PT
Intro to Information Science, Amy Nurnberger, MIT
Description is forthcoming – check the website!
Strategy and Policy-Facing Track (1st Wednesdays)
No track call this month. See you at PEARC 26!
Researcher-Facing Track (2nd Thursdays)
No track call this month. See you at PEARC 26!
Emerging Centers Track (3rd Wednesdays)
In-person meetup at PEARC26. Check the Website and monitor the Emerging Centers email list for details.
Systems-Facing Track (3rd Thursdays)
No track call this month. See you at PEARC 26!
Additional Community Opportunities
RCD Capabilities Model Office Hours: Tue July 14, 1p ET/ 10a PT (2nd Tuesdays):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.
RCD Mentoring Working Group Monthly Meet-Up: Thu July 2, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11am MT/ 10a PT (1st Thursdays): 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.
RCD Workforce Development Interest Group Join us at RCD Nexus Day at PEARC26 for Building Onramps: Developing a Guide to Facilitate Entry into the RCD Profession. Register now.
AI Facilitation Interest Group Monthly Gathering: Dan Katz presenting “FAIR4ML Metadata Schema” Wed July 8, 1p ET/ 10a PT (2nd Wednesdays): This month we have invited an international team working to advance a Schema.org extension FAIR4ML for creating machine-readable representations of trained Machine Learning models towards increasing citability and FAIR readiness when publishing ML models. Meeting coordinates: Zoom Session URL. Join here: https://carcc.org/ai-facilitation-ig/
Regulated Research Community of Practice (RRCoP) Community Discussions: Wed July 8, 2p ET/ 11a PT (2nd Wednesdays) This month, the topic will be a debrief from a full day workshop at EDUCAUSE Cybersecurity Privacy Professionals Conference in late April on Cultural Changes as required by your regulated research program. We plan to use about ½ of time for more discussions and better practices. Please use this Zoom link, and contact info@regulatedresearch.org or Carolyn Ellis with any questions.
US Research Software Engineers Monthly Community Call: Thu July 9, 12p ET/ 9a PT (2nd Thursdays/2nd Fridays): 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.
CaRCC and the People Network
If you have received this email NOT via CaRCC’s People Network, and you would like to join the People Network, which includes the above tracks, you can join here and join our Slack channels!
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.