CommunityData:Meetup April 2018: Organizational notes

TOOLS:

• Big Shared Respository:
  • List of the things we want in this:
  • Grant and fellowship proposals
  • Job application materials
  • Planning documents / outlines
  • Slide presentations?
  • Posters?
  • Is this the repository we work in for everything?
  • Final products repository
  • Letterhead
  • Peer Reviews,rebuttals (written and received)
  • Milestone documents (generals reading lists, syllabuses, dissertation proposals, theses)
  • IRB documents (protocols, recruitment forms, instruments, etc)
  • Letters of recommendation template

• Hyak:
  • Upgrade is happening
  • CDSC move is coming soon (Mako has signed contract) 1 - 2 months
  • We'll have a smaller number of much faster computers
  • This may require different kinds of coordination
  • Suggestion: Start using MOX (new scheduler) instead of IKT sooner rather than later
  • Difference: Disk space on the new system - we pay for what we use (10 dollars per TB per month) - so this means less wiggle room in terms of space, and we need to be careful about not using too much extra space for compute jobs
  • We will start moving archival and unused data sets to Cloud-based storage (e.g. B2)
  • Get people Hyak accounts!
• Zotero
  • Get Julia connected
  • Shared library is getting used, hooray!
  • Maintain the commons!
  • Check whether things are anywhere in the repository before you add new papers
  • Check duplicate items periodically and de-duplicate
  • Make sure you choose good referencing standards and read the wiki page (see below)
  • https://wiki.communitydata.cc/CommunityData:Zotero
  • https://www.zotero.org/support/duplicate_detection
  • Police who's using Google Scholar citation count thing
  • Remove anything from the "Extra" field

• Group communication
  • Face-to-face meetings
  • Bi-weekly global meetings
  • Bi-weekly campus meetings
  • Three email lists
  • send group announcements, to-do and requests here
  • IRC (irc cloud!)
  • Watercooler, shitposting
  • Bot for doing @everyone type of posts / announcements within our IRC
  • Sketch Wikipage about IRC and group communication channels
  • Wiki
  • capture more durable instructions, resources, norms
  • "How to use X and what to use it for"
  • Etherpads
  • in-meeting notes, lightweight coordination

I/O:

External communication / media

• Getting the word out about our research to others
  • • Twitter:
    • Congratulating our alumns? (Sneha, Sayamindu)
    • Tweet Deck
      • Salt
      • Charlie
      • Julia
    • Blog posts:
      • Op-eds
      • Informal posts / interviews
      • Congratulating our alumns? (Sneha, Sayamindu)
      • Book chapters
      • Shoot videos to explain our work?
    • Podcast?

Alumni / network building

• • • Other CDSCs? (e.g. - Brian Keegan in CU Boulder)
      • Sayamindu - UNC Chapel Hill
      • Sneha - Carleton
      • Alumni continue attending retreats and workshops and send / introduce their students
      • Shared teaching resources?
    • Wiki pages, git repositories, etc.

Recruitment

• • Where to target for recruiting? How to get HCDE or iSchool students interested in Comm
  • Clubs
  • Invite undergrads in?
  • Can pay for RAs
  • Mentorship
  • Credit for classes
  • Undergrads
  • RU funding
  • Getting

META / PROCESS:

Project & process management

• • Write down project stages/phases/milestones
  • Design first projects and assign more directly when possible
  • Smaller scale projects
  • More narrow role assignment
  • Independent project development
  • Write down skills, roles, goals for student development
  • Facilitate intra-group mentoring/students
  • Feedback and evaluation schedule
  • written component ahead of meeting
  • write down your agenda, goals, questions/concerns
  • Circulate materials ahead of meetings when possible every so-often

Retreat feedback / assessment

• • I like
    • Time mgmt, getting everyone some attention/pieces
    • Organization by UW!
    • On-schedule submissions, readings, feedback
    • Perpsective and background sharing
    • Open house
    • Fun activities, variety, work balance
    • Projects at new, deeper stages of development
    • in-person feedback
    • Time to hang out across campuses
    • Relationship building helps socialize, incorporate
    • Supportive feedback, consideration
    • Notes! Etherpads!

• • I wish, would change
    • Make sure we got plenty of space
    • better elevator music
    • Continue to develop intentional structure and active facilitation
    • Minimize travel, play it cool
    • Over-programming, adjusting on the fly, add some whitespace
    • watch long hours, days, nights, etc.
    • watch late nights + early mornings
    • Divide papers over two days
    • Maintain inclusive activities
    • Maybe do a hike / outdoors? (especially if it's a seattle meeting)

• BIG goals / vision
• Next projects?