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  1. Engagement Culture Study: Draft Synthesis Review
    1. Presented preliminary synthesis for everyone to comment on
    2. Questions/comments:
      1. Decision-making across NCSA - who will be assigned to your group from the Business Office, from PMCO; what input will stakeholders have?
      2. Critical to work with HR on diversity and inclusion aspect; issues with non-diverse applicants when looking to hire new staff.
      3. Unclear where the actual problems are; how can we target actual problems that can be addressed where they occur, rather than broader improvements that may miss the source of the problem. Need to review the Culture Study report and to the consultant to better identify where the challenges are exactly
      4. Scope for the new HR director; will they be focused on executing the process, or helping to define new processes?
      5. Do we have metrics for the Center Vision/Mission yet? No we do not.
  2. Investment for Growth Proposals - No interest indicated from the leads in attendance at this time.
  3. Presentation: Midwest Big Data Hub
    1. Traditionally been more outward facing; looking to be more engaged with NCSA and Illinois.
    2. Ask other leads across Engagement if they have any interest in any of the programmatic activities in MBDH.
    3. Will be requesting a 1-year NCE.
    4. Provided a menu of services for partners on the Regional Innovation Engines call.
    5. Currently have capacity through NCSA team members as well as at partner institutions; capacity will increase over the next 1.5 years as the NSF award winds down.
    6. Value of having a transition period for the community to keep supporting an open-source project while in between funding.
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