2018-06-05 Board Meeting

Attendees

Simona (remote), Kristina (remote), Geraldine (remote), Punam, Justin, Miao, Dan Maxwell, Brian, Hao

In many places, one champion for carpentries activities (Matt v 1.0), often not part of that person’s job; in some cases, an organizer has half-time support
Justin will upload notes to the website
We (UF Carpentry Club) does not have a twitter presence, is this worthwhile to pursue?
- Kristina is offering to spearhead this (#FOMO)
Hacky Hour (more social-oriented community-of-practice style events)
Research Bazaar (multi-day event, more buffet-style than focused workshops)
- We can scale this to our capacity and feasible timelines
- professional development would help draw people in and be useful
- UFDSI might be interested (possible cross-collab between groups at UF)
- François might have non-UF contacts to help
- Melissa (new hire in Health Sciences Library) has helped put on a similar event for training, reproducibility
What can we do for August?
- start small
- maybe just a panel discussion
- bring people from different backgrounds for (random) encounters / mixers
Access and Allyship was a big component of the Con (1st keynote - maybe online?)
- how to run effective meetings
Carpentry Champions program (still in the works)
Carpentries Community Cookbook has a listing of community activities (https://cookbook.carpentries.org/)
Mozilla is transferring Study Group (Mozilla Science Lab is closed) to the Carpentries org.
Local Carpentry Con like events are encouraged
- possible funding sources: Mozilla, AWS, Moore foundation

10 signups so far (from waitlist, EPI list, informatics-training list)
- no announcement yet to the gradlist - waiting for admin to circulate
- Alethea will also help circulate to other colleges
inquiry about group discount (no, but let’s think about this as an incentive for departments to provide funding)
Make sure helpers have scheduled times (so that they don’t show up all at once, but there are sufficient folks around)
- Added columns to the signup sheet
Renewal Funding
still working out the details
can begin by approaching institutes that might have more dedicated budgets for support
Dan might have a funding mechanism for grad students ($15/hr, 10-15 hr/wk)
- libraries are probably out, for Carpentries renewal funding, but could work to support other activities that the Board decides are important (e.g. community-building)
bring Pam, George, Dan, Ethan together for a meeting??
- Matt might already have contacted these folks
the sell could include a lot more than just renewal funding
visibility to departments is going to be important for asking money