2021-01-19 Board Meeting
Meeting Info
- Location: Remote
- Date: Jan 19, 2021 10:00 AM (ET)
- Agenda:
- Introductions
- Approve minutes from January 5th board meeting
- Updates on sponsorships requests
- Update on instructor training
- Continued Spring Intro to R workshop planning
- Participants: Brandon Merriell, Trista Brophy, Massimiliano Tagliamonte, Audrey Smith, Narayani Barve, Plato Smith, Vijay Barve, Alethea Geiger
- Meeting Chair: Trista
- Meeting Secretary: Brandon
Notes
Approve Meeting Minutes
- Minutes approved
- SNRE still awaiting response
- UFGI still awaiting response
- Brandon will send email to Plato Smith for libraries
- Geography has declined for now
- Vet med still awaiting response
Instructor Training Updates
- Will come back to this next meeting
Continued Discussion of Spring Workshop Planning
- Need additional instructors for upcoming R workshop (1/25 & 1/26)
- Send another email about need for additional instructors
- 23 people registered for workshop so far from sponsoring departments
- Will open registration to other departments today
- Emails & Trista will post to social media pages
- Ideally would like 3 helpers per session
- Dedicated moderator would be useful
- Trista & Audrey will split moderating
- Need to compose email to workshop participants (zoom link, time, software install, etc.)
- Will send out on Thursday evening
- Trista will set up zoom link and slack channel for workshop
- Email will also ask registered participants to confirm they plan to attend workshop
- Try to host meeting with all workshop instructors/helpers prior to Monday
- If there is a large waitlist for this Intro to R workshop, we can offer again later in the semester
- May be good to offer a different workshop as our next workshop since we’ve now offered 2 consecutive Intro to R workshops
Info for Next Meeting
- Next meeting: Feb 2nd, 2021 10:00 AM (ET)
- Meeting Chair: Trista
- Meeting Secretary: Brandon
