2019-12-10 Board Meeting

Agenda

• Last meetings minute approval
• REC workshops
• Travel awards
• Fee Reduction Survey
• Spring workshops
• Spring social event
• UFII director meeting

Attendees

Board members: Brian Stucky, Eve Bohnett, Vratika Chaudhary, Carla Mavian (chair), Minghao Gong (secretory)

Last Meeting Minutes

• Approved

REC workshops

• Jenicca will have updates on it. The current attendees don’t have any information about it.

Travel awards

• Early January as the notification time?
• Still need to address:
  • If a meeting occur after the applications; Can we do that?

Fee reduction survey

• Distribution of last workshop in Roman, Google form.
• Create questions related to financial concerns.

Sign up for workshop

• Alethea if possible to do Dosy registration
• remind anything he know we should be able to do something on that
• Put questions in there so that can bring up

Spring workshops

• Instructor training? Still no ideas until the training is ready. Waiting for the information about the workshops
• Start another workshop after training session?

UFII director meeting; Machine learning

• If machine learning doesn’t work, some other ordinary workshops can replace it:
  • the 2nd genomic workshop is ready.
  • Geospatial is another easy route to go.
• We may leave the challenges of machine learning into the Summer

Spring social event

• Before instructor training? But still don’t know the time for instructor training.
• End of January, beginning of February will be safe.
• Usually there will be no presentation; pizza events and talking
  • Highlighting workshops in the presentation.
  • Poster showcase.
  • Guest speakers.
• Booking rooms when the time settled down.
• May be a secondary event: EPI, Communicore, data carpentry
• 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Next board meeting

• the beginning of the first week of 2020. The exact time to be scheduled.

Officer positions

• Carla Mavian: Chair
• Minghao Gong: secretary