January 25, 2010, CI Advisory Committee Minutes
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Attending
Mike Abbiatti, Gary Allen, Guy Almes, Claude Garelik, Del Johnson, Myron Lowe, Rick McMullen, Henry Neeman, David Swanson, Jim Rice, Gordon Springer, Bill Mitchell, Greg Monaco, Kate Adams
Proceedings
Introductions and Brief history of GPN
Greg went over the various groups within GPN, like the executive council, representative council, research advisory board, Collaborative CI group, and that many GPN states are designated as EPSCoR by NSF.
Claude Garelik pointed out that GPN was founded by one networker and one researcher from each institution 12 years ago.
Review of committee responsibilities
Greg reviewed committee responsibilities from documents circulated earlier:
- Validate the process we are using to assess GPN CI involvement
- Have we identified the key stakeholder groups?
- Jim Rice recommended including tribal colleges and primarily undergraduate universities
- Mike Abbiatti pointed out the necessity of building bridges between our communities and that these institutions will have different needs for CI.
- Rick McMullen noted that we had not included senior level IT folks, CIOs and vps of research at each campus
- As far as reaching these groups, Jim can provide info for SD, faculty, and so forth in tribal colleges
Review of Milestones for Committee and Discussion
Greg reviewed the milestones that were originally set out.
- Del Johnson asked for a discussion of the survey and Greg described the matrix in the CI Priorities document: We would be surveying about the role GPN might play in each service area.
- Henry Neeman suggested techniques for improving responses from those surveyed
- Claude raised the issue of how cost may factor into the provision of new services. We need to make sure that when asked, there is a recognition of costs involved; or trade-offs of what GPN would have to stop doing in order to do something more.
- Mike mentioned that those services that are already offered may be successfully surveyed whereas discovering new services may be best identified via a focus group. "Would you use this service?" is a survey type question, and, "Can you pay for it?" is a focus group type of question.
- Bill mentioned that the issue of discovering the most value-added and cost-effective services that GPN can provide are central to this analysis and the Committee has flexibility in determining the way that this is accomplished.
- Claude pointed out that GPN will play a different role on different services.
- There was discussion of the current value of what GPN already does and the role of GPN as a facilitator or enabler:
- backbone I2 connection w/cost sharing
- collaboration between members
- getting members together for training and education
Election of Chair
It was recommended that we try to conduct this via email and/or at the next meeting. Rick McMullen recommended putting together a job description for the Chair.
Next Meeting
Monday, February 1, 2010, at 4PM.
