2021-09-01 Board Meeting

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Location: Remote
Date: September 01, 2021 10:00 AM (ET)
Agenda
1. Introductions
2. Approve minutes from 8/17/21 board meeting
3. Recap Fall Meet & Greet Event
4. Discuss Elections, Roles, Responsibilities
5. Date/Time for next meeting in 2 weeks
6. Carpentries Member Council Meeting September 22nd at 11am and 7pm EST
7. T-shirts (Trista has them and will bring them to campus next week and hold them in her office in SWS)
8. Any Workshop Updates
Participants:
- Brandon, Narayani, Max, Vijai, Amobi, Hao Ye, Plato Smith, Caitlin Campbell, Kylie Mendoza, Audrey
Meeting Chair: Brandon
Meeting Secretary: Max

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Notes

About 15 people came to the workshop (>50% of RSVP)
They came from a variety of backgrounds: biomedical, chemistry, geography, ecology.
Background loop presentation with Carpentries overview was found to be useful

Brandon summarized roles to the attendees;
Some new formal roles would be a social media manager, off campus representative, data manager;
Candidates can sign in 09/06 through Friday 09/10;
Voting will be open 09/13 till 09/17
Trista has expressed intention to run again; Amubi and Caitlin may run as well

Hao Ye update for the library workshop: postponed to at least to November as it was supposed to be an in-person workshop (depending on COVID-19 cases);
Genomics to happen likely online in September/October, depending on instructors availability;
Intro to R to be held within the same time period;
As general rule, coming 2021 workshops to be held online because of the raising in COVID cases;
Vijay will help the next governance board member with setting up the website for the next Intro to R workshop
Caitlyn and Amubi are going to help with teaching the workshop (instructor role); Max may be a helper on Tue afternoon
Tentative date: 09/20-21