Steering Committee Meeting No.10

[nrmay]

Meeting Details:

Chair: Manodeep Sinha

Date: Thurs. 24th September. 2020

Time:

• Auckland, New Zealand: 5:00 pm (NZST)
• Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Australia: 3:00 pm {AEST)
• Perth, Australia: 1:00 pm (AWST)

Meeting link: Join Teams Meeting

Proposed Agenda:

1. Approval of Minutes from Meeting No. 9:

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VFU6kqwdCHSGIR6nx9Qo4LAqXg8GoqWGbe3qIlpxdsM

2. Outstanding Actions:

• [All] Create abstracts for eRA2020. Abstracts submitted by: (done)
• [NM] To create a poll to find a more appropriate time for Steering Committee meetings. (done)
• [All] Expand ideas submitted to the poll: Tricider Poll
• [NM] Publicise closing of current Tricider Poll on 31st Aug. (done)
• [NL] Planning our first online event about: "How to publicly share 100 TB's of data with a Jupyter Notebook access"
• [All] Create posts for the website about outputs/results from the following:
  • [HP] Oversee post: Workshop and BoF at eResAus 2019
  • [NL] Oversee post: eResNZ 2020.
  • [HP] Share lists of attendees for eResAus 2019 events.
  • [All] Contribute to the posts.
• [NM] Update election process document and circulate to the committee. (done)
• [TBA] Invite Matthias Liffers to oversee the 2020 election as returning office.
• [NM] Update website: Add approved minutes #7 & #8. (done, needs merging)

3. Plans for eResearch Australasia 2020

Report on the status of submissions:

• [RL] BoF session - Training
• [NL] Oral presentation - Trends in RSE
• [JB] BoF session - Lightning Talks by and for RSEs

4. Report on International RSE Leaders Workshop [NM]

• Update on working groups: international collaboration, online global website, groups, profiles, toolkit.
• Proposal for RSE-AUNZ to participate in the 2020 international survey.
• Proposal for RSE-AUNZ to become a founding member of an International Council of RSE Organizations . The Council will have an initial charter to provide:
  • Communication & Coordination
  • Discussion Forum
  • Conflict Resolution between Organizations
  • Development of New Organizations

5. Election 2020

Overview: https://github.com/rse-aunz/organisation/blob/master/Elections/2020/README.md Provisional dates for 2020:

• Nomination: Mon. 12th Oct. - Sun. 1st Nov.
• Confirmation: Mon. 2nd - Sun. 8th Nov.
• Voting: Mon. 9th - Sun. 22nd Nov.
• Results declared: Mon. 23rd Nov.

6. Adopting a Goverance Model

Proposal to adopt as governance model, such as US-RSE Membership and Governance.

7. Next Meeting Date: provisionally set for 27th Oct. 2020.

8. Any Other Business

[manodeep]

@nrmay The tentative dates for the 2020 elections should be in October/November right? (I edited the Steering Committee meeting date to be 24th September)

I would like to add "Adopting a governance model" to the agenda. For example, the US-RSE governance is here

[nrmay]

@manodeep done and done.(thx for double checking).

[nrmay]

@manodeep I've updated the agenda:

• Added specific proposals coming out of International RSE Leaders Workshop (response due by 30th Sept.)
• Re-ordered so that higher urgency decisions are placed higher than broader discussion.

[manodeep]

@nrmay Yup - that looks reasonable. Regarding the last item on the outstanding actions, I don't see any open pull-requests on the rse-github-website repo. Will you please point me to the pull request?

[nrmay]

@manodeep Correct. I'd forgotten to create the Pull Request. Pull Request #17