15.02.2021

CorrelAidX Call 15.02.2021

tags: correlaidx calls

TOP0 Introduction

moderation: Isabel

present: Dirk, Lukas, Frie, Isabel

If you couldn’t attend, please fill in the updates for your chapters

Top0: Welcome

TOP1: CorrelAid news:

• NEW BLOG

• Would you like to have any events featured in our monthly newsletter? Just send Isabel a DM by Thursday this week

• Kick-off meeting for project cycle kick-off 17.02.2021

TOP2: CorrelAidX documentation / strategy / recommendations

• In case you start a new project, please check-back with Frie to keep her in the loop as she coordinates all projects --> project board on GitHub

• calender option on CorrelCloud --> see what other chapters and your own chapters are doing

• Slack welcome message (Munich) maybe interesting for other chapters as well?

TOP3: Local Chapter Update (Short)

Berlin

• CorrelAid matplotlib style sheet for plotting in Python (https://github.com/CorrelAid/correlaid-matplotlib-style)
• Setup out two new internal teams:

  • Upskilling team: New skills and ideas. e.g. bookclub, lighting talks

  • Outreach team: Establishing and improving contacts with NGOs

• Follow up on our data dialogue event from Dec. Project pitch to Ocean Now! (happening right now!). Hopefully this will lead to a new project

Konstanz

• Soon Release of the Konstanz - CorrelAidX Twitter-Account

• Expansion PR\Sales across the Lake Constance Region

• Making progress on API-Wrapper project for the Konstanz Open Data Portal

Switzerland

• first calls with interested NPOs

• workshop on data visualization on 12 February 2021

  • 3.5 hours

  • https://correlaidswitzerland.github.io/DataViz4Good/
  • https://therbootcamp.github.io/
  • conceptualised for 50 people (eventbrite restriction), 35 people showed up

  • advertised via Twitter, LinkedIn

Top 5: Open Questions

Would somebody like to share her/his experience during the next open onboarding call on 1st of March at 7pm? (5-10 minuntes casual talk), this is super helpful for CorrelAid newbies :pray:

TOP6 Coming events

• Open Online Data Meetup, Wednesday 3 (first Wednesday of the month) March, 7 pm

• TidyTuesday Challenge, every 2 weeks (every 2nd and 4th Tuesday), join the #tidytuesday Slack channel to stay tuned
• Project Cycle planning meeting on 17 February 2021 at 6 pm, register here

TO DO Isabel: copy agenda to GitBook documentation!

Stay safe everyone!