ASC Q4 2019 Meeting

PMIx Standard Administrative Steering Committee (ASC) Q4 2019 Meeting

• Date: October 17, 2019
• Time: 11 am - 5 pm US Central Time.
• Location: Virtual Meeting. WebEx information will be posted closer to the date.

Overview

The Q4 2019 PMIx Standard Administrative Steering Committee (ASC) Meeting will be the first formal quarterly meeting for the standardization body.

Quick Links

• Governance Document [PDF] [GitHub Repo]

Agenda (timeline in chart below)

• Overview of the PMIx Standard and the role of the ASC
• Review PMIx Standard meeting logistics and governance rules
• Overview of the scope of the PMIx Standard v5
• Call for ASC Membership
• Elections
  • Co-Chair (even-year) 2020-2022
  • Secretaries (odd-year) 2019-2021, (even-year) 2020-2022
  • Release Manager for PMIx Standard v5
• Discuss "ASC Operating Procedures"
  • https://github.com/pmix/governance/issues/6
• Governance PRs up for a vote:
  • https://github.com/pmix/governance/pull/4
  • https://github.com/pmix/governance/pull/7
• PMIx Standard PRs up for a vote:
  • (None at this time)
• Set dates for 2020 quarterly meetings
• Working Group Presentations
  • Implementation agnostic document Working Group
    • Overview of purpose, goals, work completed so far, work in progress.
    • Reading of "Chapter 1" changes https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/issues/175
  • Slicing/Grouping of functionality Working Group
    • Overview of purpose, goals, work completed so far, work in progress.
    • Present Use Cases defined to date:
      • Business Card Exchange: https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/issues/191
      • Debugging: https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/issues/216
    • Discussion: How should use cases should be incorporated into the standard?
• Open call for new Working Groups
• Discussion: Friday PMIx Standard meetings
  • Frequency of meetings, do we need to move the meeting to a different day/time, and content/purpose/goals.
• Discussion: Adding ASC standing agenda item for technical presentations.

Agenda Timeline

We will try to keep to this timeline as best as we can. However, discussion items may take longer/shorter than anticipated and as a result, the agenda may need to be adjusted during the meeting.

All times in US Central. (Last Update: Oct. 15, 2019)

Start	End	Topic
11:00 am	11:05	Gathering
11:05	11:45	Overview of the PMIx Standard and the role of the ASC Review PMIx Standard meeting logistics and governance rules
11:45	12:00	Overview of the scope of the PMIx Standard v5
12:00	12:15	Call for ASC Membership
12:15	12:30	(break)
12:30	12:45	Elections
		* Co-Chair (even-year) 2020-2022
		* Secretary (odd-year) 2019-2021
		* Secretary(even-year) 2020-2022
		* Release Manager for PMIx Standard v5
12:45	1:45	Working Group: Implementation agnostic document
1:45	2:15	(break)
2:15	2:30	Set dates for 2020 quarterly meetings
2:30	2:45	Discuss "ASC Operating Procedures" https://github.com/pmix/governance/issues/6
2:45	3:00	Governance PRs up for a vote:
		* https://github.com/pmix/governance/pull/4
		* https://github.com/pmix/governance/pull/7
3:00	4:00	Working Group: Slicing/Grouping of functionality
4:00	(end)	Discussion Items:
		* Open call for new Working Groups
		* Discussion: Friday PMIx Standard meetings
		* Discussion: Adding ASC standing agenda item for technical presentations