2021-07-20 Board Meeting

UF Carpentries Meeting Minutes

tags: Templates Meeting

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• Location: Zoom
• Date: July 20, 2021 10.00AM
• Agenda
  1. Introductions
  2. Approve Minutes from 07/06/21 Board Meeting
  3. Genomics & Library Workshops Updates
  4. Fall ‘Meet & Greet’ Event & Elections Discussion Cont’d
  5. Annual Report Updates
• Participants:
  • Audrey Smith
  • Vijay Barve
  • Alethea Geiger
  • Massimilino Tagliamonte
  • Amobichukwu Amanambu
  • Hao Ye
  • Plato Smith
  • Brandon Merriell
  • Nitya Singh
• Meeting Chair: Audrey
• Meeting Secretary: Vijay :::

Notes

1. A round of introductions since we have few new members.
2. Minutes for 07/06/2021 are approved unanimously.
3. Genomics & Library Workshops planning
   • Max and Nitya are planning Genomics workshop and have some clarifications regrding the logistics which were clarified
   • Max is contacting more insturctures
   • Workshop will not happen during July or August, but in fall.
   • Hao is working on Library workshop possibaly second half of September 2021 and is meeting Libraries team this week
   • Let us aim to have traget dates on calendar in next meeting so can plan the logistics better
   • Brandon suggestes we should explore a early September Intro to R workshop for fall incoming students
4. Fall ‘Meet & Greet’
   • End of August, may be first week of classes
   • Will be good opportunity to attract more board member applications, helpers etc
5. Does SWC and DSI (Data Science and Informatrics) collabarate?
   • May be interest in Intro to R in collabaration
6. Elections
   • It will be useful to have board starting early September.
7. Instructor training
   • Audry has requested for roll over four slots and waiting for reply
8. Annual Report
   • Some progress was made in last week
9. Next meeting
   • Meeting Chair: Max
   • Meeting Secretary: Vijay