2020-03-03 Board Meeting

Agenda

• Last meetings minute approval
• Expand audiences and departments
• Carpentries Instructor Training
• Geospatial prep
• Genomics
• Rec Workshop
• Soliciting funds

Attendees

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

Last Meeting Minutes

• Approved
• A minor point: Social science workshops
  • Low representation of target audience.
• Minutes need to be adjusted

Travel award

• 500$ each person (three awardees)
• Taylor proposed to use for another workshop.
  • Resubmission of application from Taylor.
  • Follow-up

Instructor training

• Teacher has been confirmed by Alethea
• Last week, 11 persons; the number of attendances declined.
  • Brian is concerned with the regular one-year routine. Possibly we can do it every other year?
  • Expanding audiences to be reachable; Highlight and reworkings of instructor training.
  • Circulation to other departments (e.g., EPI)

Genomics workshop

• [Priority] Spreadsheet to confirm instructors, helpers
• dates to be confirmed. April 6, 7

Geospatial

• The end of March
• Website is good to go
• [Priority] After springbreak, we can promote the workshop

IFAS

• Dean of IFAS, preparation of regular annual report or the end of the year.
• We run workshops, do we need a written document?
• We need to know what info the reader want to know.
• Eve has nicely prepared the UFCarpentries-AnnualReport.

Minor issues:

• Hosting workshop in UCF (proposed by Carla)
  • It is workable but they need to request and allocate resources and fundings.
• Pre-workshop survey: further improve Google form for checking attendees
  • Understand the affiliations of attendees precisely to understand our targeted attendees
  • Better survey issues. Drop-down options? Automatic generated reports? (Elise will follow up on that)

Next board meeting

• March 17th (Tuesday 2:30 p.m.).

Officer positions (next meeting)

• Brian Stucky: Chair
• Elise Morrison: secretary