2020-12-01 Board Meeting

Meeting Info

Location: Remote
Date: Dec 1, 2030 10:00 AM (ET)
Agenda
1. Approve minutes from meeting on Nov 17th, 2020.
2. Update on sponsorship email.
3. Continuing the discussion on the “Introduction to R” proposed workshop to be held in the last week of January.
4. Chemometrics course update
Participants:
- Brandon, Brian, Trista, Narayani, Vijay, Audrey, Alethea, Geraldine
Meeting Chair: Narayani
Meeting Secretary: Trista

Ready to send; Every department is assigned to someone on the Google Drive excel
Brian finding out who to contact at UF GI
Please CC’d Alethea on all emails
Existing template for existing sponsors and those emails are assigned as well
Geraldine wants to be CC’d on IFAS email and kept in the loop with communications with the Dean; She suggested sending stats report of workshops and funding use to IFAS; Audrey will sit with Geraldine to go over scripts of workshop data
For libraries: Hao Ye might be good additional contact (reproducibility librarian and former UF Carpentry board member)
- There may be interest in the Libraries Carpentry Workshop
Send emails by end of week

Alethea mentioned that there are new stipulations on in person events for Spring, so if we want to have an in person event, she will get us that info.
Geraldine mentioned that IFAS wants to have REC workshops and they can be online
2 days of workshops with more/longer breaks, like in the Intro to R workshop from September 28-29 2020
Excel lesson is useful; So perhaps we have a short lesson on data management in Excel & CSV
Drop git and shell lesson
Workshop Date: Monday January 25 & 26
Organizers: Vijay & Nirayni
Tentative Workshop Agenda
- Data management & spreadsheets
- Intro to R & Tidyverse
- ggplot
Another workshop for later could be Python & Git