Planning Meeting 08-Jun-18

Attendees

  • David Proudlock
  • Fiona Ford
  • Alessandro Riccombeni
  • John Wise
  • Marcus Rhenius

Apologies:

  • Christy Wilson
  • Nick Lynch

Actions:


Summary / Actions from last meeting:

How to work together:

  • Build wiki area (David) - Done
  • Investigate Slack (David via Nick)
  • Build a document / reference repository on wiki

Collect references of interest (all) send to David or edit wiki directly (All)


Questions for this meeting:

  • Finding the communities / players
  • Understanding the common problems
  • Build the problem statement:
    • We want to build / run a summer school in the area of x for our members to add value by....

Notes:

General Thoughts and comments:


Questionnaire:

  1. General membership / people
  2. Ask the Advisory board... (e.g Alan Lewis)


Any knowledge of research doing microbiome? in your organisation


Is your organisation working on or doing research around the Microbiome? Yes/No (Closed question)


  • What work or research is your organisation doing around Microbiome?
  • If yes, what tools / technologies are you using?
  • If none, are you planning to enter this space in the near future: 
  • Would a summer school, workshop or hackathon or similar be of interest, what kind of activity would help you and your organisation?

Twitter:

Are you interested in the Microbiome...?


Notes:

(Fiona) DNANexus: mosaic community, possible tools?

(Fiona) Potential partners: Microsoft or Amazon (AWS to help with a venue), maybe some of their "resources"


(John) Is there an opportunity for a microbiome webinar - Alan Lewis might advise us on whether this is a good idea and what on?

Breakout session - investigate whether there's a slot for Microbiome. (David)