NPPS Leadership Team

[Brett Viren <bv AT bnl.gov>]

Another "me too" for Chris's words.

Especially with SDCC leaving the department (still, right?) it seems to
me it would be more weird to have them provide NPPS leadership than to
not.

This has nothing to do with Doug as an individual.  Until recently I've
never interacted much with him but so far I have nothing to complain
about (and I love complaining).

I do like the idea of starting with ad-hoc meetings with SDCC
representation.  If they become useful enough and there is enough to
discuss they could be made regular.  I think it would be best that these
meetings are not "joint" but rather NPPS set the agendas.

The Thursday SDCC liaison meetings can still give an outlet for SDCC to
push any agendas on the community.

-Brett.


Torre Wenaus via Phys-npps-mgmt-l <phys-npps-mgmt-l AT lists.bnl.gov>
writes:

> Hi all,
> I'm regularly asked if RACF/SDCC is represented on the NPPS leadership 
> team. When I say no I'm sometimes asked why not. I think ideally there 
> would be good liaison connections in both directions. We
> have our standing 'SDCC news' slot in the NPPS meeting, and regular 
> attendance from several SDCC people including Tony, but since NPPS was 
> formed the 'natural candidates' for liaison have not been
> advisable ones in my view. Now perhaps that has changed with the arrival of 
> Doug Benjamin in SDCC. He is certainly a friend of NPPS, attends our 
> meetings and group coffees of his own volition, and sees
> it as a goal to increase collaboration between SDCC and NPPS. He does have 
> an earned bull-in-the-china-shop reputation, which can be good or bad 
> depending on the circumstances. He's driven by the
> needs of experiments and users first and foremost.
>
> In the early days of NPPS planning we included a coordination team, 
> expanding beyond the leadership team to include a wider circle of liaisons, 
> but in practice this has seemed to me superfluous given the
> good connections to experiments through the leadership team -- except we 
> miss the SDCC liaison that would surely be included in such a body.
>
> So finally to the point, I'm interested in your view on making Doug a 
> member of the NPPS leadership team. I'm undecided myself as to whether it's 
> a good idea, I will really appreciate your input. At this
> point all leadership team members represent part of the activities and 
> responsibilities of NPPS. An SDCC rep would be different in nature as a 
> purely liaison role, but it could be useful to the experiments as
> well as NPPS to have SDCC at the table, emphasising the role of the NPPS 
> leadership team as liaison to the experiments for a spectrum of S&C topics 
> that while focusing on software do touch on computing
> as well.
>
>    Torre

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