WBConfCall 2015.03.19-Agenda and Minutes
Agenda
International Meeting - June
Plans for pre-meeting at Caltech
WB Talks
WB Workshops
WB Table - Poster Sessions
Help Desk Tickets
Asked for more information from user, no response yet: #3690, #3689
Suggestion on titles used for RNAseq display - see #3688
Minutes
Pre-meetings
Sibyl, Todd will come early Xiaodong, Kimberly, Mary Ann will come early, too No official site-wide meeting; can have conversations during UCLA meeting
WB talks
Paul will talk at plenary - deadline April 16th
WB workshops
Chris sent to Gillian Stanfield Sent summary around in email We have 90 minutes Seven talks - 12-15 minutes each Ask Chris if you need schedule again Schedule will appear in meeting agenda? yes
WB table - poster sessions
One booth for WB, one for ParaSite? Try for two - can use both for both projects Chris can email Gillian Stanfield, cc Kevin Any WB posters? If you want to make one, go for it Community Annotation poster (Mary Ann, Karen, Ranjana, Daniela) and presence at booth good Can make a brief comment in abstract about exploring micropublications - err on conservative side for the abstract
Help Desk
RNAseq titles Move from identifiers to human readable descriptions (50 characters - several lines) Gary Williams will work on this
Slack
What are people’s thoughts? Slack features: Can create channel for specific topics Doesn’t copy all previous correspondence with each reply Transparency in that everyone can see all channels Karen - good for tracking emails, threads, can integrate other tools like github Michael P. - doesn’t improve the number of incoming communications Slack implementation still needs improvement especially wrt threading Can anyone give a definitive answer to why we’re changing? What’s the need? The idea is that this would replace email What effect would this have on help desk? Paul D. - we need to choose and use Slack for the right purposes Mary Ann - which bit of WB communication is Slack trying to improve? Chris - intended to consolidate different threads, pipelines into one place Mary Ann - would external users need to use Slack as well for help? Raymond - can you know if other people have read the message? Kevin - no Other possibility - LINE (Raymond) - could check to see if someone read it Would this discourage people from using it? Kevin - SLACK really encourages stream of consciousness writing; this doesn’t happen so much when composing emails; important information can get lost in the chit chat Using SLACK for the important exchange of technical information may not be the right medium Mary Ann - should we try to improve how we use our existing tools, e.g. wiki? We need Todd to weigh in more here Someone should check with Richard Durbin’s group to see how they like it Final decision pending…..
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