(as of Apr 2025)
Working Groups
These CaRCC groups have an established membership, clear objectives, and timelines for outcomes and products.
Mentoring: (web content coming soon; contact help@carcc.org to get connected)
AI Facilitation Materials: develops tools to support the learning and facilitation activities of researcher-facing RCD professionals who work with researchers and educators implementing AI on RCD systems.
Capabilities Model: develop the CaRCC Capabilities Model and associated tools that allow institutions to assess their support for computationally- and data-intensive research, to identify potential areas for improvement, and to understand how the broader community views Research Computing and Data support.
Mentoring Working Group: is investigating, documenting, and understanding opportunities to promote and/or coordinate available mentoring opportunities for RCD Professionals.
RCD Career Arcs: creates resources for Research Computing and Data (RCD) professionals to explain RCD career options and help existing RCD professionals explore professional development and advancement. These resources also aid in recruiting a larger and more diverse pipeline into the RCD profession.
RCD Professionalization: develops and disseminates tools, and data regarding the RCD professional workforce and professional roles, to guide conversations among Human Resources leaders and Research Computing and Data leaders for attracting, retaining, developing, and advocating for RCD and cyberinfrastructure talent.
Interest Groups
These CaRCC (discussion) groups are organized around common interests, which may motivate evolution to a working group with specific objectives.
AI Facilitation: (in startup) This interest group discusses strategies and experiences facilitating researchers and educators implementing AI in their work. Request to join here: https://groups.google.com/a/carcc.org/g/ai-facilitation-ig
Anaconda Transition: discusses best practices and recommendations for RCD centers navigating changes to Anaconda licensing across their systems and services, following early community-developed documents.
EPSCoR CI Council: This hosted a workshop in 2022 to reduce the CI capabilities knowledge gap across EPSCoR jurisdictions, and address a “Call to Action” to increase CI access across EPSCoR states. The organizing group continues to engage as an interest group sharing practices across EPSCoR campuses.
HIPAA Challenges: This interest group arose from discussion about the challenges of supporting researchers working with HIPAA data. Through these discussions, the group realized there was a substantial story to tell via some kind of publication like a white paper, share it with the community to get input and endorsement, then present it to policy makers
RCD Communications and Outreach: (in startup; contact help@carcc.org to get connected)
Research Cybersecurity: This interest group will discuss and develop ideas, activities, and recommended practices for action at the intersection of RCD Facilitation and Research Cybersecurity, with emphasis on blending populations of RCD professionals and cybersecurity professionals working in research environments.
Staff and Student Workforce Development: The Combined Staff and Student Workforce Development interest group is working to develop resources to support individuals and institutions in the implementation of staff and student workforce development.
Start a Working or Interest Group!
If you’re interested in starting a group that you don’t think exists yet, check out our CaRCC Working, Interest, and Operations Groups document which describes the startup process, roles, and expectations. (And get involved by helping us improve it!)
Operational Groups
These groups provide coordinating and/or administrative support for CaRCC activities, including other groups.
Logistics Team: This operational group develops, coordinates, distributes, and supports the infrastructure of people and resources (email lists, Google Docs, calendars) that enable various CaRCC efforts. If you have questions about CaRCC or would like to learn more, e-mail us at help@carcc.org.
Engagement: A team of individuals working to increase the visibility of and participation in CaRCC’s s community-driven activities, especially to organizations and individuals that are underrepresented.
People Network Track Coordinators: This operational group aims to foster, build and grow the inclusive CaRCC community (termed the “People Network”) of campus CI, research computing and data professionals. Each of several, focused discussion tracks within the Network has monthly virtual sessions coordinated in-kind by community members.