Do you help researchers using IT tools to further their research goals? Are you involved in research computing and/or data science training? Do you consult with researchers on more effectively doing their research with advanced computing resources? Compute with data? The Researcher-Facing Track of the People Network brings together people from research computing groups, libraries, research institutes, and other organizations who support researchers in every phase of the research lifecycle. Many of us are also Data- & Systems-Facing, but this track is a community-led opportunity to discuss the practices, perspectives, and experiences of facilitation.
Topics include:
- Research computing facilitation
- Outreach to all disciplines, esp. those under-represented, to aid with research computing resources
- Education and Training
- The art and practice of facilitation
- Increasing communications, collaborations, and team-building
- Research computing technologies
- And more, as determined by our members!
We connect via monthly calls and an email list. We also invite you to review and contribute to the Leading Practices of Facilitation!
Join Us!
Join Us! Fill out our membership form to let us know who you are and what you’re interested in. We’ll add you to the email list.
Monthly Calls
Monthly calls are on the second Thursday of the month, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11a MT/ 10a PT/ 8a HT. Connection information and links to any materials are distributed via email.
Upcoming Call(s)
Thu August 13th, 2020, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11a MT/ 10a PT/ 8a HT
No August Call
The Researcher-Facing Track call will not be held in August, as we will be supporting and recommend the following two calls instead:
- Service Models for Researcher-Purchased Computing and Data (Multi-Track Call hosted by Systems-Facing), August 20 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT
- PEARC20 After-Party, hosted by the People Network! August 4 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Previous Call Topics
| 07/09/20 | Big Data, Big Compute Solutions, a Community Discussion | video doc slides |
| 05/14/20 | Remote Support (cont’d): Working with Your Team Remotely | video
doc |
| 04/09/20 | Sharing Good Practices in Remote User Support & Training | video
doc |
| 03/12/20 | User Support via Ask.CI and Locales | video
doc |
| 02/13/20 | Doing it in public: User support via Slack, open forums, Github repos and blogs | video
doc |
| 01/09/20 | Handling Support Requests – A Community Discussion | video
doc |
| 12/12/19 | University of Missouri reports and Researcher Facing/CI-Engineer Metrics | video
doc |
| 11/14/19 | Open OnDemand User Experiences & Challenges | video
doc |
| 10/10/19 | An Expansion of User Support Services for the Research Computing Group at the University of Colorado Boulder | video slides doc |
| 09/12/19 | A Startup Framework for Building Digital Research Capacity and Community at UCLA | slides doc |
| 08/08/19 | PEARC19 recap! | |
| 07/11/19 | Creating effective training materials | |
| 06/13/19 | Lightning talks / Open mic sessions on track topics |
Track Coordinators
Claire Mizumoto, Dir. Research IT Services, U. California, San Diego
Bob Freeman, Dir Research Technology Operations, Harvard Business School
Steering Committee Members (alphabetically)
Katia Bulekova
Dirk Colbry
Martin Cuma
Christina Koch
Amy Neeser
Janna Ore Nugent
Wiriwan Purwanto
Erin Shaw