People Network

Building Community: the CaRCC People Network

CaRCC supports an inclusive community (the “People Network”) for campus professionals who support research computing and data (RCD+) resources and the researchers and educators who use them. The Network includes synchronous and asynchronous opportunities to connect with and leverage the collective expertise of the broader RCD+ community. With role-based discussion “tracks”, participants can choose how they participate and stay abreast of opportunities (including job postings!). As of late 2024, the People Network includes approximately 1700 unique members.

JOIN!

Create an account on our membership management system to subscribe to any of the tracks and the overall People Network.  Existing People Network subscribers can login to update their subscriptions and profile.
(Requests to join are moderated by a human before email addresses are subscribed to relevant email lists.)

Tracks within the People Network

While the People Network initially launched tracks aligned with role-based ‘facings’ from CaRCC-facilitated work on the “Research Computing and Data Professionals Job Elements and Career Guide“, other tracks have formed (and may form) around other themes.

Each community-owned track has an email list, Slack channel, and monthly community calls (public calendar view; add to your calendar). People Network members can pick and choose which communication channels and monthly discussions to partake in, recognizing that any one RCD professional might have multiple professional roles and/or interests, and limited time. You can also check out YouTube recordings of most prior calls.

You can read more about each track, below:

  • Data-Facing: Data management, publishing/sharing, data science, data visualization, data workflows, data transfer and networks, among other topics. (est. 2019)
  • Emerging Centers: Support for smaller or developing research computing and data centers. (est. 2019)
  • Researcher-Facing: Outreach, education/training, consulting/facilitation, leading collaborations, etc. (est. 2018)
  • Strategy & Policy-Facing: RCD leadership, institutional alignment, culture for research support, funding, and partnerships and engagement with external communities. This facing is coordinated in collaboration with peer leadership communities including CASC (Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation) and the EDUCAUSE RCD group. (est. 2022)
  • Systems-Facing: Systems planning, engineering, security, optimization, middleware, virtualization, and cloud, among other topics. (est. 2019)
  • Software-Facing: Software development, portability, installation, optimization, support, etc. For those interested, we recommend that you check out the US Research Software Engineers Association (US-RSE).

Our Community Policies

Subscribed members of the People Network and Track email lists are able to access all corresponding email discussion archives via https://groups.google.com/ when logged in with a Google-compatible or Google-linked identity that is subscribed to these lists. (Note: subscription changes must be made via the CaRCC membership management system.)

Track-specific and other People Network gatherings are generally executed via Zoom and posted to the CaRCC YouTube Channel, where we take advantage of YouTube’s accessibility features, except when topics or community members indicate a reason for confidentiality. Given this availability of content from gatherings, and to otherwise preserve community member privacy (i.e. in Zoom chat conversations), non-human meeting participants (e.g. AI bots) are not allowed in any People Network or Track Zoom meetings and will be removed. Furthermore, content other than that in public call documents and/or YouTube videos should never be further distributed. Violations will be handled per the enforcement policies described in the CaRCC Code of Conduct, which outlines additional policies applying to all CaRCC-associated events and communication channels.

CaRCC Privacy Policy

Our Full Privacy Policy governs your participation in the Campus Research Computing Consortium (CaRCC) People Network, your use of the CaRCC instance of the WildApricot membership management tool, and other CaRCC tools and services such as the Portal Services. The Policy explains how we collect, safeguard and disclose information that results from your membership and use of that system, following a few fundamental principles:

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

By participating in CaRCC activities or using any CaRCC tools, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. We use your data to provide relevant communications and support related to your involvement in CaRCC. CaRCC does not sell or share our membership lists or member data with third parties unless required by law, or necessary to share with a CaRCC contracted service provider, such as an event venue, caterer, etc.

Current People Network co-coordinators

(email both)

    • Lauren Michael, Internet2 Research Engagement (contract); LMichael Consulting
    • Bob Freeman, Harvard Business School (retired)