CommunityData:Group Tasks

Operations

Ongoing actions with pretty regular periodicity.

Send announcements (including reminders) for meetings.
- Also entails sending reminders
- For most meetings, try to include agenda in the announcement email
- See Email-related Resources and How To

Scheduling workshop sessions (new)
- See: Workshop
- Previously handled via "soft blocks"

Send around the scheduling poll each quarter
- See: When To Meet How To
Organize retreats (virtual and non)
- See: CommunityData:Resources
- Virtual retreats
- In person retreats (more organizing tasks)
Plan social events
- see list at: CommunityData:Resources

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  - identify things that are out of out of date
  - revise the out-of-date stuff and or recruit someone to help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.)

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!