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Research Offsite 16-17 planning
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Description

Creating a phab task to keep track of our Offsite planning.

Logistics

[ x] Confirm with venue early check-in / late check-out

Taskforces
[x ] Meals / cooking party taskforce (due by noon on Monday) (@leila, & @ellery)

  • Decide which meals we want to cook, and which ones we will order in or go out for
  • Menu planning for grocery shopping
  • Collect breakfast/snack/drinks needs
  • Grocery shopping on Monday afternoon (@DarTar)

[x ] Team building activity taskforce (@Halfak & @Capt_Swing)

  • Poll team on ideas
  • Check what’s available locally and costs
  • Make proposal and run costs by Dario

[ x] Ground rules taskforce (@aripstra @ggellerman)

  • Review before the offsite to present and align on on Tuesday

[x ] Stationery taskforce (@aripstra)

    • Bring along a projector, post-its, large papers, sharpies, dry erase markers, a long roll of paper
  • Gene Wiki taskforce (@DarTar)
    • Coordinate with Scripps people for day 3

Sessions

[x ]  Kick off and ground rules (@aripstra & @DarTar)
[x ] "Communicating research"  (@Capt_Swing & @DarTar)
[x] Where we are: Current projects and Q3-Q4 collaborations  (@DarTar)
[x] Where we're going: Wikimedia Research in the next FY  (@leila & @DarTar)
[x ] Hack day

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Event Timeline

@Nettrom has been approved to attend in his capacity as a fellow™ (an MOU is currently in preparation, after which I'll need you to contact our travel team for booking flights).

@aripstra @Halfak: if you guys haven't submitted a travel request form yet, please do so as airfare prices are going up.

Just forgot to mark myself as {{done}} :)

DarTar updated the task description. (Show Details)
DarTar updated the task description. (Show Details)

Two quick updates:

  • the venue will let us know 24 hours before the check-in if we can have an early check-in (before 4pm on 12/5) and a late check-out (after 10am on 12/9)
  • the Gene Wiki team confirmed their interest in a brown bag lunch session at noon on day #3
  • the venue will let us know 24 hours before the check-in if we can have an early check-in (before 4pm on 12/5) and a late check-out (after 10am on 12/9)

Do we know yet if we can check in early?

aripstra updated the task description. (Show Details)