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 (bottom of the page): https://recaptcha.open-mpi.org/pmix-std-recaptcha/

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
		* Chapter 1 Current Draft
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