2019-06-25 Board Meeting
UF Carpentries Board Meeting, June 25, 2019
Attendees
Chair: Hao
Secretary: Joe
Board Members: Brian, Gaurav
Non-board Members: Dimitri Bourilkov, Deborah Paul
Agenda
- Approve last week’s minutes
- https://github.com/UF-Carpentry/website/blob/master/_minutes/Board-2019-06-11.md
- Approved
- Logo next steps
- Approved. New logo is currently used in Slack.
- General funding updates
- Carpentries renewal of $15,000 covered by IFAS ($10,000), with some IFAS money earmarked for REC Program.
- UFII are committed to usual ($3,750), UF Libraries ($1,500), WEC ($1,500)
- Other requests for renewal/operation funding
- Email sent out to FLMNH and they just confirmed a $1, 500 sponsorship
- Email sent out to Biology
- Biology had 16 workshop attendees during the 2018-19 academic year, the largest number of attendees from any department
- ResBaz planning updates
- Preliminary schedule on time blocking between 9/11-9/13
- REC Program
- Hao thinks we should add language formalizing our REC work on the website
- Including on the Travel Award section (special travel award from RECs to Gainesville)
- Hao thinks we should add language formalizing our REC work on the website
- Identify election board for Fall
- Identify travel award selection committee for Fall
- Identify early to solicit more applications
- Deb suggests improving advertisement
- Hao suggests improving timing too
- Standardize communications (e.g. intro slides, requests for volunteer instructors/helpers)
- We need to clarify that instructor training is not a prerequisite for helping
- Deb recommends intro slides like iDigBio uses
- With the institutional take-home message within those slides
- UF/USDA machine learning workshop updates
- No meetings this week
- Revamping Code of Conduct
- No progress yet
- Preliminary workshop schedule for Fall 2019
- Joe asks how we should construct this schedule and how the new board should follow it when they assume office
- Deb invites us to FSU, where there is space and interest
- Genomics lesson has been updated since the last time EPI offered it at UF
- Summer workshops
- No summer workshops
- Select chair and secretary for next 2 meetings
- Chair: Gaurav Vaidya
- Secretary: Hao Ye