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Attendees
Sean Buehler, UTK, i5k
Jill Wegrzyn, TreeGenes
Meg Staton, Hardwood Genomics
Stephen Ficklin, Katheryn Buble, WSU
Valentin Guignon, The Alliance Bioversity-CIAT (CGIAR)
Risharde Ramnath, TreeGenes / WSU
Monica Poelchau, USDA-ARS-NAL, i5k
Blake Inderski, USDA
Irene Cobo Simon, TreeGenes/CartograPlant
Lilia Mesina, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Rodrigo Ortega Polo, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Lacey-Anne Sanderson, University of Saskatchewan
Agenda
- White paper came back with only minor revisions! Yea!
- Stephen is spearheading a new grant
- NSF SABI (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21503/nsf21503.htm)
- specifically funds ongoing efforts rather than new functionality
- help support our efforts to upgrade Tripal and all our Extension modules to Drupal 8/9.
- Need help from everyone to show research and education impact
- Training - grad students,postdocs, undergrads
- Publications
- Site Usage
- Can an outreach and training person be supported by this? Sustainability is part of the grant, so likely will fit
- How can we increase involvement of developers in core development? And also increase the involvement of community members?
- Why are we losing interested groups?
- How do we get people who are working on overlapping projects to work together?
- More organized outreach, more frequent hackathons
- Find top 3-4 modules that everyone needs, then focus the community on those with once a month hackathons, make it fun and interactive and make these modules really awesome and fit everyone's needs
- Weekly coding get together falls into this - this is not for developers only! Inclusive for anyone in the community
- Perhaps be more targeted - set aside part of dev meeting for a specific issue -
- Might need separate meetings timed around everyone’s schedule but this is extra overhead
- Asynchronous code fest where each person works independently? More flexible but missing the good discussion
- recording our meetings and get it searchable maybe on YouTube platform or vimeo with comments enables, can get training material out there
- Advocacy for Tripal is important to get new groups and keep enthusiasm going
- Could we set up a google form for presentations and trainings? Auto display on website?
- Could part of the problem be that initiatives/projects undertaken by a single group generally don't get collaborators after the fact? Place more emphasis on linking groups together before project development starts
- Get groups to share a DB - a group can develop a new module they need but have it installed on an existing database
- Stephen - will make “Before you start” guide to user docs to help people find what they need
- Fill out a form about new modules w/ design spec
- Also put out over slack and twitter for feedback
- Newsletter? Once a quarter? Solicit items through a form
- Start using CoFest
- Support for more community standards:
- Alliance for genome resources APIs.
- Presenting more at ISMB/BOSC. Perhaps we should start
- BOSC abstracts due in 2 days
- Bioinfo core at ISMB
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