Board-2019-06-11

UF Carpentries Board Meeting, June 11, 2019

Chair: Hao

Secretary: Joe

Board Members: Hao, Joe, Gaurav, Simona, Brian

Non-board Members: Caroline, Alethea

Approve previous meeting’s minutes
- Approved
Update on logo and approval status
- The new logo has been approved!
Update on IFAS funding
- Alethea has placed IFAS funding into a PO towards membership renewal
Define target sponsors for membership renewal
- Elise has contacted Biology Department,
- Simona and Hao will contact Wildlife Ecology Department,
- Someone will need to contact EPI (Geraldine)
- Brian and Gaurav will contact FLNHM
Update on ResBaz planning
- We gathered preferences from ResBaz Gainesville Planning Meetings
Revamp Code of Conduct
- Hao has looked at other Codes of Conduct
Preliminary workshop schedule for Fall 2019
- Hao would like our REC commitment codified on the website
- Caroline asked if anyone from the RECs had taken this last instructors’ training
  - Brian and Simona said not yet.
  - Two labs at the South Florida REC are committed to getting their students more involved in the Carpentries Club
Summer workshops
- Hao has sent out email to Informatics Teaching Listserv about summer workshops
Update on USDA/UF machine learning workshop
- Brian attended meeting along with Gaurav, Dmitri, and Adam Rivers that focused on concepts and the scikit-learn
- One room reserved in Reitz Union
- August 27th and 28th
- Classic Fare will be the caterer
Action Items for 6/25/19 Meeting