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<div class="">Please see the info below (and attached) in regards to a new approach to a Network Data Center approach that is coming from the Network IM community. Everyone is seeking a state of Kumbaya, but no one is quite sure the attached plans will achieve
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<div class="">(My email address replaced Diane’s on several network lists, but not this one. My apologies for the late delivery of info.) </div>
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<div class=""><u class="">Please let me know what you think about this plan</u>. Peter is largely asking for the lead PIs to convey the thoughts and reactions from their sites and I have a teleconf set up with him for Thursday of this coming week to discuss.
<i class="">If you could get me any thoughts before Thursday, I would appreciate it</i>. </div>
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<div class="">Inigo - this includes you, of course!</div>
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<div class="">P.S. - Bonus points to the first person who understands the reference to Kumbaya in the message above!</div>
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phone: 303.735.5333</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">I have not heard from too many of you about activities for planning a new Data Center run by the LTER IM community. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">So I am writing to nudge you to take a look at the note below and the attached documents and let me know if you have any thoughts, concerns, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Thanks!</span></div>
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As you know, a group of LTER Information Managers (IM) has been having discussions with Saran Twombly at NSF to determine if the new Data Center could be run by the LTER IM community. As discussed at the Science Council meeting this is a very exciting development,
but one that requires lots of discussion and support from the sites. Margaret O’Brien has been doing an excellent job of keeping the Executive Board (EB) up to date and I have attached a couple of draft documents that she produced describing the current (and
evolving) thinking about the structure and function of the center. </div>
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Key current issues under discussion include:</div>
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a split between fiscal and intellectual entities introduce complications and/or double-overhead costs?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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composition of the governance committee, e.g., should this be voluntary/elected like the current IM Committee, or should there be a regular rotation like the EB?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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structure might help even out the sites' engagement and technical expertise in Information Management?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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the EB have a voting member on the governance committee for more direct involvement than the advising depicted in the draft diagram?</div>
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A more general question is if the EB, as LTER leadership, should have 'a say' in the yes/no decision (of whether we should go forward with a proposal). In discussions at the EB meeting last week, the answer was generally 'no'. But I said I would reach out to
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So, please take a look at the attached documents, talk with your IM, and let me know what you think about what is going on. NSF is keen to have network buy-in for this effort; we can't move ahead without broad (or maybe even full) support.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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