Date: 2016-04-06
- Karin Lagesen
- Jason Williams
- Raniere Silva
- Bill Mills
- Rayna Harris
- Belinda Weaver
- Jonah Duckles
- Greg Wilson
- Maneesha Sane
- Tracy Teal
- Kate Hertweck
Presenter: Jonah Duckles.
Text: Executive director serves on DataONE’s Community Engagement and Outreach Working Group.
Details: There will be two annual trips and monthly conference calls. The first trip will be a trip to Santa Barbara, CA in May.
Presenter: Jonah Duckles.
Text: Sue McClatchy of Jackson Lab has written two grants that include SWC.
Presenter: Jonah Duckles.
Text: Moving ahead with a trip to Brazil.
Details: Raniere is helping to schedule meetings.
Presenter: Jonah Duckles.
Text: I will be teaching for the first time since I took over as ED at a workshop in Denver on April 12-13 as part of ESIP-FED/USGS training. DC and SWC will be running concurrent workshops.
Presenter: Jonah Duckles.
Text: Teaching in Mexico June 8th-9th and arranging meetings with potential collaborators and partners in Mexico City and Leon, Guanajuato while I’m there.
Details: Thanks to Belinda for introducing me to Selene while I was in Queensland!
Presenter: Raniere Silva.
Text: Approve instructor training event to be delivered to Software Sustainability Institute by Aleksandra Pawlik and Steve Couch on Edinburgh on 7th May.
Resolution: Passed.
Details: No monetary or time commitment costs from Software Carpentry.
Presenter: Jason Wiliams.
Text: Open call for a new round of Subcommittees and task forces.
Resolution: Postponed to next meeting due request of rewrite.
Presenter: Jason Wiliams.
Text: Adopt Time Zone Rules for future Steering Committee meetings
Resolution: Postponed to next meeting due request of rewrite.
Details: We have a difficult time to find a meeting where everyone can participate at normal working and/or biological hours. The Time Zone Rules allow Steering Committee members to responde in a 24 hours time spam.
Presenter: Jonah Duckles.
Text: Allow Executive Director to pursue a “Royal Society of New Zealand Catalyst Leaders Fellowship”.
Resolution: Passed.
Details: Executive Diretor is applying in conjunction with The University of Otago and NeSI for a Fellowship that “Supports exceptional individuals from any country outside New Zealand to catalyse science and innovation capability and capacity in New Zealand for a minimum of 4 weeks per year for up to 3 years”. We’re working on ways that the effort would support activities in New Zealand to test our model for top-down coordination (NeSI) and bottom up (U of Otago) approaches to expansion of Software and Data Carpentry activities. This would have me working to develop a strategy and playbook for how we can engage at various levels to expand Software Carpentry.
Presenter: Raniere Silva.
Text: Settle a good workflow to achieve the minutes and those public.
Resolution: Raniere will write procedures.
Details: No monetary or time commitment costs from Software Carpentry.
Presenter: Jason Wiliams.
Text: In-person Retreat Agenda
Resolution: Postponed to next meeting due lack of time.
Presenter: Jason Wiliams.
Text: finance report
Resolution: Not Applicable.
Details: Financial report received.
Raniere Silva: Write the procedures.
ALL: Have a look on the agenda.
RS: Email Aleksandra informing the decision.
JW: Work on rewrite the proposal.
RH: Work on rewrite the proposal.
BM: Work on rewrite the proposal.
JW: Will clean the text on the proposal.
Jonah Duckles: send proposal before 2016/04/14.
Jason Williams: Write letter as the Software Carpentry Steering Committee Chair saying that the Software Carpentry will allow Executive Diretor to make the commitment to working on the project.