2 buttons on the front page leading to 2 sub-websites

2 buttons on the front page leading to 2 sub-websites

My arguments:

It would make the information researchers need easy to find

2 distinct audiences with different expectations vis-à-vis the Alliance  ➡  2 sub-websites

2 buttons on the front page leading to 2 sub-websites

• Do you find this idea worthwhile?

• Are there reasons not to implement something along those lines?

• Who would be a good contact to pursue this idea?

• Could we make plans?

2 different newsletters for 2 different audiences

2 different newsletters for 2 different audiences

My argument: same thing!

Stake holders want to see that the Alliance is great, productive, and involved in transformative computing

Researchers want practical information that can be useful to them

2 different newsletters for 2 different audiences

• Do you find this idea worthwhile?

• Are there reasons not to implement something along those lines?

• Who would be a good contact to pursue this idea?

• Could we make plans?

The problem

• Most researchers do not know about the services that we are offering

• We do not have ways to reach out to them to inform them

Explora is here and will help a lot! 🥳

But it won’t solve everything:

• Users will need to be informed and reminded that Explora exists

• Some users might prefer to get emails about upcoming training events

Mailing list access

We teach and help all Canadian academic researchers—not just Alliance clusters users

They are however our main target audience

Being allowed to email CCDB users to inform them of our services (with option to opt-out) would be a great solution

Ethics

Responsible management is of course paramount and we would:

• strictly respect opt-out requests
• store data securely
• respect privacy
• abide by anti-spamming laws

Alternative solution

An alternative solution would be for an Alliance personnel to send emails on our behalf to advertise our events

This seems impractical and add to the work load of the Alliance but remains an option

Thoughts and discussion

Are the concerns around allowing us to use CCDB emails about:

• privacy?

• data safety?

• spamming laws?

• other?

• Is there anything we could do to alleviate these concerns?

• Who would be a good contact to pursue this conversation?