CommunityData:Meetup October 2022
We're meeting in Seattle on October 14 - 15! If you're calling in, we'll be at http://meet.jit.si/cdsc as per our custom.
We'll be taking group notes at in a shared Etherpad for the event. You can see the pad we created last time for an idea of what this might look like.
Agenda
Thursday, October 13
Evening Social Event
Friday, October 14
- 9:00 Breakfast
- 9:30 Lightning talks
- 10:00 Lightning talks cont'd
- 10:30 道 (dao/tao) of CDSC: a facilitated panel
- 11:00 道 (dao/tao) of CDSC
- 11:30 Lightning talks
- 12:00 Lightning talks
- 12:30 Lunch (w/ a speaker?)
- 13:00 Lunch con't -- schedule check: is this working or do we need to adjust our remaining time?
- 13:30 Lightning talks
- 14:00 Lightning talks cont'd
- 14:30 Reception (we'll invite many friends from UW and elsewhere) -- hard start time/stop time
- 15:00 Reception cont'd
- 15:30 Reception cont'd
- 16:00 Care and Feeding: whole-group conversation
- 16:30 PLACEHOLDER whole-group convo (or 1-1s)
Train to Dinner, hope to eat @18:00
Saturday, October 15 (Unconference/Parallel Sessions Day, may have spill over from Friday
Unconference potential topics:
- reading group: ostrom (governing the commons chapter 1-3)
- reading group: benkler (chapter 1)
Schedule
- 9:00 breakFeast
- 9:30 unconference span
- 10:30 half bake off
- 12:30 Lunch
- 13:30 unconference, co-working
Social Activities On Your Own
Sunday, October 16
On Your Own
Attendee List
| Attendee | Thursday Dinner | Friday Sessions | Friday Dinner | Saturday sessions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nate | Maybe | Most likely | Yes | Unlikely |
| Jeremy | Yes, if it's late enough | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Divya | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? |
| Kaylea | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Sohyeon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Emilia | No | Yes -- should be able to attend all, unless I need to TA from 2:30-3:30 | No | Yes |
| Dyuti | Yes, if it's late enough | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Aaron | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hsuen-Chi (Hazel) | Yes, if it's late enough | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Regina | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Floor | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Salt | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Nick V | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ryan F | Yes, if it's late enough | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Molly | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Yibin | Yes | Need to TA from 9:30-12:30, but will attend after that | Yes | Yes |
Dietary Restrictions
[No need to add yourself here if you are unrestricted.]
| Name | Dietary notes |
|---|---|
| Emilia | vegetarian -- have class during M/W/F lunch & unlikely to attend dinners -- prefer not to eat indoors |
| Aaron | vegetarian; allergies (nuts, sesame) |
| Floor | vegetarian (most of the time at least) |
| Charlie | vegetarian |
| Ryan | gluten-free |
| Molly | vegetarian (no cilantro) |
Travel Plans
If you are traveling in from outside, add your name and arrival details here (days, times and flights if you have them, status (purchased/in-progress), any notes).
Copy /paste format, fill in with your details:
- [NAME]
- 🛬Date - [WEEKDAY], October [DAY] [time and flight information]
- 🛫Date - [WEEKDAY], October [DAY] [time and flight information]
- Status: [PURCHASED / NOT PURCHASED]
- Floor
- 🛬Date - Monday, October 10th [7:25a-10:01am; UA580]
- 🛫Date - Sunday, October [DAY] [5:59p-11:55p; DL1116]
- Status: PURCHASED
- Will arrange my own accommodation on the first three nights and the last night; so would like to crash somewhere Thu - Sat.
- Sohyeon
- 🛬Date - Monday, October 10th [7:25a-10:01am; UA580]
- 🛫Date - Sunday, October 16 [5:59p-11:55p; DL1116]
- Status: PURCHASED
- Have arranged own accommodation for the first three nights; so looking to crash somewhere Thu, Fri, Sat nights.
- Carl
- 🛬Date - (not booked yet)
- 🛫Date - Sunday, October 16 [10:10p-6:20a; DL2621]
- Status: PURCHASED
- Nick Vincent
- I'm planning to get in Monday morning. I'm also planning to figure out my own accommodations for Mon-Wed and join in group accommodations Thurs-Sat (if possible), although if anyone else wants to split lodging for the earlier days I'm open to it as well!
- 🛫Date - Sunday, October 16
- Status: PURCHASED
- Regina
- 🛬Date - Thursday, October 13th [11:16am-02:26pm; DL1481]
- 🛫Date - Tuesday, October 18th [03:16pm-06:00pm; DL1334]
- Status: PURCHASED
- Have arranged own accommodation.
Seattle People To-do
Lab duties
Logistics Planning
- Get attendance list + travel details of people flying in
- Get dietary restrictions
- Decide retreat schedule
- Figure out what the social event will be
- Determine restaurants/ordering food
- Reach out to any potential speakers if we want to have research presentations
- Schedule C&F sessions
Accommodations
Nate, Emilia, and Ellie are leading this. They will organize AirBnBs for people who want to stay in an AirBnB with other group members and link people able to offer accommodations to people coming in from out of town willing to stay at someone's home. People can get their own places to stay by themselves if they want as well.
Guests seeking accommodation
If you need accommodations, please fill out the form below.
| Name | Do you need accommodations? | What kind are you looking for (Local Host, AirBnb, Hotel)? | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sohyeon | Yes | Local host or AirBnb | |
| Stef | Yes | Local host or AirBnb | |
| Floor | Yes | Local host or AirBnb | |
| Jeremy | Yes | Whatevs | |
| Dyuti | Yes | Local Host or AirBnB | |
| Hsuen-Chi (Hazel) | Yes | Local Host or AirBnB | |
| Carl | Yes | Any | |
| Nick V | Yes | Any | |
| Ryan | Yes | Local Host or AirBnB | - |
Potential hosts
If you are willing to host someone from out of town, please add yourself to this form:
| Name | Description of sleeping arrangement (how many couches, guest rooms) | Location (neighborhood, distance to campus) |
|---|---|---|
| Mako | At least one guest room (will confirm more!) | Capitol Hill (15m ride to UW / 25m home; bikes likely available); 30 minutes or so by light rail + walking |
Meal planning
Charlie, Regina, and Aaron are working on this.
- Obtain list of dietary restrictions
- Plan breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks
- Make reservations / catering orders for any restaurants
Notes
- Breakfast items + snacks obtained
- Catering orders in (Friday & Saturday lunches, Saturday dinner)
- RHCP Friday dinner reservation made
Activity planning
- Outline work-related events
- Decide on non-work events
- Decide on where we will hold the event(s)
Session ideas
Please add your initials to vote for sessions / activities.
Goals: help newcomers feel welcome; reinforcing and establishing a safe, shared exchange of ideas, that it's okay to pitch out-there ideas; not every idea needs to turn into a project; stuff that is hard to do remotely (making people feel like they're part of the club)
- Housekeeping stuff / keeping people up to speed on things like Hyak (NT; BMH; MDB; JF)
- Time for open-ended conversation on a set of topics or prompts
- Ways to facilitate interaction and intellectual exchange
- Half-baked off (BMH; MDB; JF; RC,DJ; NV)
- Lightning talks on everyone's work (so we all know what everyone else is doing) (NT; FF; SD; BMH; KC; MDB; JF; YF; RC,DJ; NV)
- A reading group of fun / canonical texts (BMH; MDB; YF, RC)
- Social activities (NT; FF; SD; BMH; KC; MDB; JF; YF; RC,DJ; NV)
- Things that make a good newcomer experience (NT; FF; BMH; YF; NV)
- Expressing and communicating work and ideas (e.g. Matsuzaki outlines) (KC; RC,DJ)
- The lifecycle of research, how we develop research questions, etc (MDB)
- Things we wish we knew when we start(ed) grad school (BMH; JF; YF,DJ; NV)
- The CDSC way of being a scholar; how to be in a lab/the CDSC; what makes CDSC special/unique; (NT; FF; SD; BMH; KC; MDB; YF)
- C&F / workshops (small number? plan for after newcomer workshop) (BMH; JF,DJ)
- invite a guest(s) (SD; BMH; MDB)
- coworking sessions/unconference (FF; BMH; KC)
Ideas of fun things to do
Previous Meetups
We meet roughly twice a year and you can see what we've done in the past at:
