Present: Heather Turner (HT), Emily Dodwell (ED), Tanja Kecojevic (TK), Julie Josse (JJ), David Smith (DS)
Absent: Tania Allard (TA), Jenny Bryan (JB), Di Cook (DC), Jasmine Dumas (JD), Jonathan Godfrey (JG), Isabella Gollini (IG), Michael Lawrence (ML), Kevin O'Brien (KO), Augustina Ragwitz (AR)
- July slackathon minutes have been updated.
- Code of Conduct update: JJ and HT met to incorporate feedback (gathered during useR! 2018 and eRum) and edit draft.
- There are currently differences in how best to handle more serious offenses.
- Goal is to recommend general protocol to identify and respond to issues (make CoC less prescriptive).
- New draft here.
- Incorporation of photos throughout website, both informal and action shots (e.g. groups of members at conferences and workshops):
- Remind members to take photos at workshops and conferences for inclusion. There will be a private Github repo with submissions that represent a selection pool.
- Also nice for inclusion with news items, Twitter, Facebook, blog, etc.
- About page:
- Photos were taken at useR! 2018, but would require permission of professional photographer to use.
- Solicit photo submissions for About page (guidelines re: size, portrait, type - professional headshot, etc.); might be difficult to organize with larger membership, so this is a longer-term goal.
- Education page:
- DC may have pictures from workshop(s) for Edu page update. Is permission required/granted by individuals in it to publish on website?
- New etherpad has not worked at all times across all devices. Prior to publishing link in the future, send to a few members for testing.
ACTIONS
- HT is interested in any suggestions you may have for new members of the R Foundation. Please get in touch with her to nominate someone. (ALL)
- Submit membership photos from conferences and workshops (ALL)
- Creation of private Github repo for photo submissions (?)
- Upcoming Events:
- Diversity in Tech Data Workshop September 22nd in Dublin (registration not yet available)
- DSC4 September 18-19th in Belgrade
- TK can give Forwards talk. See JJ's talk from R Summit 2018.
- TK is organising a tech workshop on September 15.
- DS: R Consortium community survey
ACTIONS
- Creation of new Community section on Data page: forwards/tasks#40 (HELP WANTED)
- R Consortium handled closed captioning of videos from useR! There is an additional setting that enables incorporation of community contributions to correct captions, but it must be turned on. More here.
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- JJ is still happy to complete the package survey.
- useR! 2017/2018 surveys: how to progress?
- link to 2017 data etc: https://github.com/forwards/surveys/tree/master/useR2017
- NYC workshop scheduled for Saturday, October 27th.
- JR, ED, and DC met at JSM to discuss organization and logistics. Planning process will be documented for future workshop organizers.
- JR and ED to teach workshop centered around NYC transporation data, with support from AT&T colleagues and R Ladies.
- Aiming for ~20 students (high school girls in grades 11 and 12)
- JR created information landing page as NYC sub-page to Education page; will provide direct link to Google Doc application. Currently in Github update-edu branch to be published this week.
- Will coincide with update to Edu page (mission statement, clear section of upcoming workshops with list of past, CoC, link to materials, etc.)
- Yes to hex stickers from Hadley! Can be sent to ED.
- Next Slackathon will be weekend of September 28th-October 1st.