2021-01-05 Board Meeting

2021-01-05 Board Meeting

tags: UF Caprentries Meeting Minutes

• Location: Remote
• Date: Jan 5, 2021 10.00AM
• Agenda
  1. Introductions.
  2. Approve minutes from December 15, 2020 board meeting.
  3. Updates on sponsorship emails and responses.
  4. Continue planning for spring R workshop (January 25, 26).
  5. Plan for virtual instructor training.
  6. Discuss workshops for the rest of the semester.
• Participants:   
  • Brian Stucky
  • Vijay Barve   
  • Narayani Barve   
  • Trista Brophy   
  • Alethea Geiger   
  • Hao Ye   
  • Brandon Merriell   
  • Massimiliano Tagliamonte
• Meeting Chair: Brian
• Meeting Secretary: Vijay

  Notes

Introductions

None

Approve minutes from December 15, 2020 board meeting

Minutes approved

Updates on sponsorship emails and responses

• SNRE is under process
• School of Pharmacy is under process
• WEC is going to continue
• Libraries yet to get back
• Florida Museum has approved $1500
• UFGI no response yet
• Vet Med waiting for reply

Continue planning for spring R workshop (January 25, 26)

• Send dates and any other details required to be captured in the form to Flora - Narayani
  • Make sure departments of the participants are captured in registration form
• We will send advance notice to sponsoring departments before wider circulation to make sure they get first chance to register
• Wiki page needs to be updated to reflect recent policy - Brian
• Instructor and Helper sign up needs to be set up - Narayani and Vijay
• Workshop meeting on 12th Jan 2021 - Vijay
• Workshop on Jan 25-26 contents mostly from Sept 2020 workshop

Plan for virtual instructor training

• Use Carpentries format
• Announce it an February
• Brian to check how the online instructor training works

Discuss workshops for the rest of the semester

• Advance workshop like Geospatial
• Genomics workshop in collaboration with Libraries
• Depending on response, another Basics workshop maybe with Python

Workshop planning meeting

• Tuesday 12th Jan 2021 10AM (Remote)

Next board meeting- Tuesday 19th Jan 2021 10AM (Remote)

• Meeting Chair : Trista
• Meeting Secretary : Brandon