Mark your calendars for these upcoming People Network calls. For handy calendar entries, try the CaRCC Events Calendar. A number of the People Network tracks are taking the month off for summer travel and conferences, and you can check out other community calls listed further below.
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Strategy and Policy-Facing Track (1st Wednesdays)
Documenting metrics for RCD programs (part 2).
Wed July 5th, 12p ET/ 11a CT/ 10a MT/ 9a PT
From reporting operational performance metrics in terms of system up-time to research impact metrics of grant dollars generated, every RCD program uses some sort of performance metrics to showcase its impact to various audiences. In this two-part discussion series, we are exploring different types of metrics in use at various RCD programs which are diverse in maturity/size. The June 7th call focused on the data collection done in compiling metrics; the July 5th call will be a discussion of how collected metrics data is used at different institutions.
Data-Facing Track (1st Tuesdays)
No call this month.
Researcher-Facing Track (2nd Thursdays)
No call this month. On August 10th, Dave Goodlove from CIQ will give us an update on the world of containers world since our last RF call about containers, including the evolution of singularity to Apptainer, efforts to create and run containers completely in user space, running parallel applications from containers, and system level replacements for Docker like Podman from RedHat.
Emerging Centers Track (3rd Wednesdays)
No call this month, but don’t miss our August call (Wed. August 16, 12pm EST) with Bryan Johnston, Senior HPC Technologist, Advanced Computer Engineering Lab, Centre for High Performance Computing, South Africa, https://www.chpc.ac.za
Systems-Facing Track (3rd Thursdays)
No call this month (July 2023). We are looking into again planning, in collaboration with HPCSYSPROS, a social/meet up at PEARC23 for those who will be attending.
CaRCC Interest Groups
Tue July 11th, 11a ET/ 8a PT (2nd Tuesdays): RCD Capabilities Model Office Hours – come and go as you please to learn how to get started with the Research Computing and Data Capabilities Model, discuss where you are in the process, make suggestions for improvements, and more!
Meeting coordinates: Zoom Session URL (Meeting ID: 381 654 7290; Passcode: carcc). Join the capsmodel-discuss@carcc.org mailing list or send questions to capsmodel-help@carcc.org.
Tue July 11th, 2pm ET/ 11am PT (2nd Tuesdays): CaRCC RCD Staff Workforce Development Interest Group. This month’s call will be all about Staff and Student Mentoring programs: what makes a good program; what you’d like to see included in a mentoring program. The newly created CaRCC RCD Professionals Mentoring Working Group is interested in your experiences and any ideas for an RCD professionals mentoring program. Let’s break it down and decide what we’d like to see as a community!
Join the Interest Group here https://groups.google.com/a/carcc.org/g/rcd-staff-workforcedev/members to receive calendar events and Zoom details: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3816547290?pwd=cGpHY3pTVDQ4ejM0czRqekFDSzlOUT09
Additional Community Opportunities
Thu July 13th, 12p ET/ 9a PT (2nd Thursdays/2nd Fridays): US Research Software Engineers monthly community call. See https://us-rse.org/calendar/ for more information.
Mon 4p ET/ 1p PT (every Monday): OSG Consortium/PATh Project host weekly Campus Office Hours, Mondays at 3:00–3:30 pm US Central Time. Join any week. Zoom: https://osg-htc.org/campus-office-hours-zoom. For more information, please contact Christina Koch.
Wed July 12th, 2p ET/ 11a PT (2nd Wednesdays):Regulated Research Community of Practice (RRCoP) Community Discussions. Please use this Zoom link, and contact info@regulatedresearch.org or Carolyn Ellis with any questions.
Zoom Details for CaRCC Calls
All calls will take place within a Zoom room communicated via email. Please help us keep these details secure (non-public), but feel free to share with a colleague.