Agenda

Webinar registration: each session got 92 - 129 signups (by 8am PDT on 10/15).
Webinar announcement posted on WB Blog/Twitter, Worm FB & Slack channel.
Over a dozen WB patrons are helping us by promoting the webinars on their social media and local email lists (SF, Toronto, Colorado, NY Upstate, Michigan, Maryland, Harvard/Longwood ...)
Person ID autocomplete function failed. 3 confirmation emails were bounced back. Wen looked up their contact info online and forwarded the confirmation email to the correct email addresses.
Caltech Zoom will accommodate 300 participants
Do we need more promotion? (Other regional email lists, MicroPub email list ?)

Help Desk

one week since announcement sent
>100 RSVPs for several of meetings
CG: should do a trial run on Zoom
KY: microPub has hosted some meetings
TH: Presenter shouldn’t also be the stage manager
KY: Maybe a sign up sheet for each meeting for different roles?
Continue promotion via email, SM, etc
Discussion on organizing the Zoom meeting
- TH: Perhaps an introduction
- How to handle chat?
- Monitoring, selecting, repeating, and sending to the presenter
- Replying in person in the chat
Practice session
- Wen will send out invite for practice session

PS: By 2023, NHGRI will cut to 50% of 2016 levels
- How to transition to Alliance, drum up other funding, etc
- Providing clarity for other groups