CommunityData:Group Tasks

From CommunityData

Operations

Ongoing actions with pretty regular periodicity.

Regular (weekly+)

  • Send announcements (including reminders) for meetings.
  • Scheduling workshop sessions (new)
    • See: Workshop
    • Previously handled via "soft blocks"

Quarterly or so

Send around the scheduling poll each quarter


Organize retreats (virtual and non)


Plan social events

Maintenance

More focused on infrastructure and tools. Less regular/predictable intervals. Sometimes mission-critical!

  • Wiki Gardening
    • read over 1-2 pages and identify you think they are up to date
    • update lists of people, bios
    • update publications
    • update teaching/courses
    • update your user page!
    • go through resources page and...
      • identify things that are out of out of date
      • revise the out-of-date stuff and or recruit someone to help
      • identify groupings of topics, links that makes sense
    • make new documentation that we know we want/need:
      • write page about doing patrolling, creating accounts, etc
  • Software Updating
  • Sysadmin/app-admin work related to research / collaboration infrastructure+tools (wiki, email lists, calendar, git, hyak, kibo, web servers/sites)
  • Financial administration (reimbursements, payroll/hiring, travel, etc.)

Group Nurturing

People-focused, mostly less-frequent (quarterly-or-so).

  • facilitate group-process reflection/feedback/improvement sessions at retreats
  • train people on systems & tools (hyak/overleaf/R/etc.) The Resources Page is a general umbrella location.
  • newcomer orientations, recruitment, hiring
  • organize feedback sessions for RAs
  • outreach to adjacent communities, individuals who should come hang out!