If you’re reading this, you’re likely a new or recent group member, and we’re happy you’re here! Please read on to understand how to connect and what we’re trying to accomplish.
Getting caught up
- Familiarize yourself with our rules of conduct
- Take a peek through our meeting notes
- Connect with our LinkedIn Page
Communication Channels
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To maximize the fluidity of conversation, we have three primary ways of communicating: bi-monthly meetings, Slack and a private Google group.
- Request to join our private Google group (mailing list) → https://groups.google.com/g/federalcloudadvisoryboard
- Add our meetings to your calendar https://calendar.google.com/calendar/render?cid=39643f7e2633e0a5fa0185ac92d2930240f7e441229cbd202eba1a1f3634cccb@group.calendar.google.com
- Once we receive a request to join the group, we will invite you to the Slack channel.
What we’re currently focused on
- Collecting and sharing individual experiences with the FedRAMP process to identify practical ways in which it could be improved
- Finding speakers to share unique perspectives, our group is presently CSP-heavy, and we seek more input from agencies and 3PAOs alike.
- Distilling our experiences and producing bodies of work that aim to educate and help those contemplating or actively going through the FedRAMP process. This is likely to take on multiple formats:
- Social media
- Whitepapers
- Podcasts
- etc
Things we would like to do (no current ETA)
- Serve as drivers to create a mechanism allowing agencies to evaluate CSP value propositions more efficiently without the overhead and cost of POCing not-yet-FedRAMP’d offerings—perhaps something akin to a MITRE but specifically for CSP product evals; very TBD at this point.
- Present our collective knowledge at conferences.
- Establish this working group as a non-profit charity and take on individual and corporate donations/sponsors.
- Coordinate intentionally with the PMO (GSA) and possibly the FSCAC and serve as a conduit for “real world” feedback to them.