Breakout Sessions
The agenda for the CIRC PI Meeting includes concurrent breakout sessions on Monday, November 6, so that attendees can have focused discussions on topics of community interest. On Tuesday, November 7, the organizers of the breakout sessions will summarize the discussions for all meeting attendees.
Breakout Session: Best Practices for Sustainability
Room: Alpine
Organizer: Vuk Marojevic (Mississippi State University)
Scribe: Yung-Hsiang Lu (Purdue University)
Description: This breakout session will discuss best practices for sustainability of community research infrastructure. Starting with a list of activities, the group will discuss further ways to foster sustainability, rank them, and discuss what may work best for different project types. The participants will have the opportunity to share their experiences and expectations.
Breakout Session: Effective Community Outreach and Engagement
Room: Bonneville
Organizer: Bolei Zhou (University of California, Los Angeles)
Scribe: Alexis Palmer (University of Colorado Boulder)
Description: It is crucial to identify effective strategies for building and nurturing vibrant community for a research infrastructure. During this session, attendees can expect to engage in discussions, share best practices, and learn about innovative approaches to connect with contributors, users, and stakeholders related to a community infrastructure. The session may delve into topics such as creating inclusive communication channels, organizing outreach events, and fostering a sense of belonging within the open-source ecosystem. Ultimately, the goal is to inspire and equip participants with the knowledge and tools they need to strengthen their project’s community and maximize its impact.
Breakout Session: Enhancing Reproducibility with Community Infrastructure
Room: City Creek
Organizer: David Balenson (University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute)
Scribe: Johanna Cohoon (University of Utah)
Description: The R&D community needs to share research artifacts, including datasets, code, experimental methodologies, etc., in a way that lowers barriers to sharing and reuse. Various platforms, including NSF-funded community infrastructure such as SEARCCH, PIVOT, and CLASSNET, are working to help researchers share artifacts they produce and find artifacts produced by other researchers. How can NSF-funded community infrastructure further advance the goals of reproducibility and replicability?
This breakout session will explore the issues and challenges researchers face in capturing, packaging, sharing, finding, and reusing research artifacts. The session will discuss current initiatives, infrastructure, and incentives for sharing and reusing artifacts. It will further explore and identify other potential solutions and opportunities to increase and improve the sharing of experimentation artifacts as a solid practice in the research community.