Zebroid Group Meetings: A New Chapter (9/24/21)
Starting in Fall 2021, we are reviving the Zebroid group meeting. Today (9/24/21) we will have an organizational meeting to discuss the format, content, and intention of having these group meetings.
Agenda:
- Motivations
- Implementing Motivations
- Must-Do Logistics
Motivations
Over the course of the past year, I have seen that meetings are a lot easier when it’s explicitly clear to me what I’m getting out of the meeting before I even start. What do we each individually want to get out of a group meeting? How can it fit in with the way that we are doing work now?
My personal list:
- Social interaction with people who share my interests
- Discussion/help for new ideas
- Feedback on current project progress
- Developing a new skill
- Building a shared knowledge base
[Will be replaced by whole group list after meeting]
Implementing motivations
With a shared set of motivations in hand, how can we make plans for a group meeting that support these motivations?
- Social interaction with people who share my interests
- In person lunches?
- Field trips
- Discussion/help for new ideas
- Semi-regular project updates
- Feedback on current project progress
- Larger format presentations before a talk
- Developing a new skill
- Group hackathons
- Building a shared knowledge base
- Journal Club
- Paper blog
- Documenting interesting papers, packages, in a shared repository
- Building out this repo to encompass practical implementation of software best practices in daily work. (“Software Skills for CTN?”)
[Will be replaced with whole group list after meeting]
Must-Do Logistics
Things we have to figure out for sure:
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When/How often should we meet?
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Zoom, or in person? With zoom option?
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What is the topic/format of our next meeting?