2021-10-14 Board Meeting

UF Carpentries Meeting Minutes

tags: UF Carpentries Meeting

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• Location: Remote
• Date: October 14, 2021 1:00 PM (ET)

• Agenda

  1. Introductions & welcome new members
  2. Approve minutes from 9/15/21 board meeting
  3. Discuss board member roles
  4. Determine fall semester board member biweekly meetings schedule
  5. Discuss planning a follow-up meeting for instructors/helpers from Sept. Intro to R workshop
• Participants:
  • Max, Trista, Cory, Audrey, Amobi, Caitlin Campbell, Amanda Markee, Dellena Bloom
• Meeting Chair: Trista
• Meeting Secretary: Audrey

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Notes

Introducions

• Board members new & old and introduced themselves

Approve minutes from 9/15/21 board meeting

• Tabled until next meeting

Overview of Data Carpentries’ & UF Carpentries’ Club objectives & charter

-Trista provided overview & information with input from Max & Audrey

Discuss member roles

• Trista will continue to be social media coordinator
• Amanda expressed interest in being communication coordinator with Carpentries
• Cory will manage Google Drive folder & organize
• Amobi will fill data manager role with assistance from Audrey
  • New board members will send Audrey & Amobi GitHub usernames to be given access

Schedule Fall Semester Bi-weekly Board Meetings

• Present members completed availability poll
  • Monday mornings & Tuesday afternoons- most availability for members
  • Narayani not present- Trista will send scheduling poll to her
• Group agreed that maybe fall meeting day/time will alternate between 2 ‘best’ timeslots

Follow-up Meeting Regarding Sept. Intro to R Workshop

• After end of workshop, Narayani mentioned holding a post-workshop meeting to evaluate how we may improve, etc.
• May do this during next board meeting if all or most workshop instructors/helpers can attend
• Audrey will contact Narayani & workshop volunteers regarding the meeting

Date/Time for next meeting:

• Next meeting: 10/27/21, 12:00pm-1:00pm ET
• Meeting Chair: Trista
• Meeting Secretary: Cory

Agenda for Next Meeting on 10/27/21

• Approve minutes from 9/15/21 & 10/14/21 meetings
• Review Club’s GitHub account & Google drive
• Workshop follow up review
• Further discussion of member roles
• Sponsors for 2021/22 genomics & library workshops