2022-12-09 Board Meeting

tags: UF Caprentries Meeting Minutes

Meeting Info

• Location: Bartram-Carr Courtyard (in-person!)

• Date: 2022 December 9, 13:00 ET

• Agenda

1. In-person introductions and welcome of new and returning board members
2. Approval of November 29 Board Meeting minutes
3. Upcoming R workshop updates
4. Website and coordination tutorial over lunch
5. Other business

• Participants:
  • Cory Brunson, CJ Campbell, Dellena Bloom, Ke Zhang
  • Meeting Chair: CJ
  • Meeting Secretary: CJ

Notes

Introductions

• Introductions were made!

Update on planning Spring 2023 R Workshop

• Check-in from Dellena. All tasks are assigned.

Recap of library carpentries

• Some challenges with Git, outside of that it went well.

Coordination with other R user groups

• Floating idea of coordinating w/ website of UF R-Users club
• GNV R-Ladies might also be of interest

Website and coordination tutorial over lunch

• Covered website and coordination repos
• New members present are added to the github Additional ideas that came up:
• Good idea to put on a version control with Git workshop
• Ideas for future instructor trainings
• Enthusiasm for Git, python workshops
• Inquiries to community for guest instruction
• Plans to switch to etherpad

Spring 2023 workshops

• ‘Reproducible research in R’ will happen in January
  • Thinking of this as the sequel to ‘Intro to R for ecologists’
• Genomics workshop
  • Check in with Ida about when would be helpful
  • Can be sold as ‘Cloud Computing for Genomics’ to emphasize that it’s 2/3 cloud computing
• Can request up to 2 centrally organized workshops
  • Git, Python
  • Considering Programming with Python, Programming and Plotting with Python
  • Leaning towards a 1-day centrally-organized Programming and Plotting with Python Roughed-out schedule:
• January - Reproducible research in R (in-person, locally-organized)
• February - Git (locally, maybe a half-day workshop)
• March - Genomics workshop (local; date may be tweaked according to availability)
• April - Python (centrally organized)

Git workshop

• Should send out call for instructors and helpers this month
• Cory will organize

Plans for the upcoming semester

• Dellena will be the 2022-3 Central Carpentries Coordinator
• Ke is interested in being the social media coordinator
• New board members shall volunteer for central roles in the next meeting! Hooray and many kudos.

Next meeting

• 2023 January, date TBD.
• Chair: Ke
• Secretary: Dellena