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

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      • identify things that are out of out of date
      • revise the out-of-date stuff and or recruit someone to help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