Project Meeting 2023.03.09

Agenda

• Georgetown Beeck Center Case Study Update
  • Case Study: https://beeckcenter.georgetown.edu/report/architecting-effective-governance-in-iscs/
  • Blog Post: https://beeckcenter.georgetown.edu/six-lessons-in-governance-for-intergovernmental-software-collaboratives/
• BayDAG
  • WSP and RSG to present changes in BayDAG, proposed to be merged into ActivitySim

Action Items:

• Consortium members to check out the links.
• Any interest of opposition from consortium to having colleen present her findings
• Notification to all consortium members about the panel discussion in future.

Meeting Notes

• Beeck Center Case Study

  • The focus of the case study is on governance and some lessons learned from the activitySIM project.
  • Joe informed that links and website are shared with consortium for their perusal.
  • Joe asked if there is any interest in the group to ask Colleen to talk about the findings of the study.
  • Colleen had also reached to know if Alex, Joe or other consortium members would be interested to participate in a public panel discussion in April.

• AMPO Conference

  • Caitlin asked if new submissions can be done by end of today.
  • The audience for annual conference is executive directors, planning managers, planners and even board members.
  • Technical symposium is capped to 125 folks and is catered to technical practitioners level. Tech symposium happens every other year.
  • Jeff suggested to participate in the 2024 conference rather than 2023.
  • Caitlin suggested to include participating in conference to be included in the roadmap of growing the consortium.
  • Decided not to present in the AMPO Conference this year.

• TRB Innovations Conference

  • RSG and CS are presenting at the TRB Innovations conference
  • Joe stated that consortium’s prior approval is required for any consortium-funded work on ActivitySim that is planned to be presented to any conference.

• “BayDAG”

  • David and Sijia gave tour of changes
  • Complete documentation is missing in the PR
  • Accept the PR as-is in the develop branch and merge with the changes for ORCA extension. More documentation will be added as another PR.