15.03.2021

CorrelAidX Call 15.03.2021

tags: correlaidx calls

TOP0 Introduction

moderation: Isabel present: Phil, Fabian, Florian, Liam, Alex M.

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

Top0: Welcome

TOP1: CorrelAid news:

• NEW BLOG: CorrelAid Codes --> https://codes.correlaid.org

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

• Digital Social Summit coming up

• Project cycle coming up :tada: Kick-off on 8/9 of April (more than 70 applications)

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: https://github.com/CorrelAid/projects/projects/1

• 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?

• New chapter in Jena coming up :tada: first exchange of ideas: 13 April, 1 pm, spread the word if you know interested people from Jena (or Weimar or Erfurt)

• New Chapter in Dresden coming up

• New Chapter in Spain coming up

TOP3: Local Chapter Update (Short)

Berlin

• Two projects in the April kickoff (Ocean. Now! and Brandenburger Frauenhäuser)

• New org teams are up and running:

  • Upskilling team

    • Scheduled lightning talks

    • Book club March 18th, 20:00

  • Outreach team

    • Presentation at the Rotary Club

    • Decision tree for CorrelAid event types

Netherlands

• NPO engagement team (growing)+ Core team

• new project w/ SLK + mateo

• couple of meet-ups planned w/red cross + wild life

• speed dating bingo event (approx. 18 people attended)

• sales force account

• difficulties w/ social media

Konstanz

• Twitter Account in the making

  • should go live next two weeks

• Participation at: https://www.bodenseehochschule.org/labs/2022-ideenworkshop/ together with OpenData Konstanz:

  • the application video: https://nxt.upsalala.de/index.php/s/z9Hkki5KpMdtWgd

• Ongoing projects with OpenData Konstanz

  • package development

  • Digital Lab with Fraunhofer (23.04., 30.04. und 21.05.)

• Will have our own week and lecture at: https://www.uni-konstanz.de/lehren/advanced-data-and-information-literacy-track-adilt/

  • scheduled date: 8. July 2021

  • topic: OpenData feat. Data4Good

• Possible projects:

  • contact with: Stolpersteine Konstanz, NABU, Biotop Heinz Sielmann, Caritas

  • Stolpersteine: potential to scale up!

Rhein-Main

• produce small "image video" aimed at NPOs

  • prepared effect/template in DaVinci Resolve (transparent band with name and title in corporate design), happy to share!

• extension of bee observer project (2 new members from other chapters)

• internal project on panama papers wil probably start next week, already 5-6 people interested in it

• last LC meet-up: discussion with NP start-up GamesKonfigurator on how to implement recommendation engine for kids-friendly games. Will let HQ know in case things get more concrete

• local chapter meet-up next week with talk by member on Data Privacy preserving ML. Meetup

Köln

• Bi-Weekly meetings - Tuesday 7PM

  • Tomorrow: Talk by Sascha about Behavioural insights to change energy consumption patterns in Kosovo

    https://correlaid.org/events/2021-03/talk-energy-consumption/

• New MeetUp-Account is growing nicely. (Thanks to Dylan from CorrelAidX Switzerland!)

• Financial support by CorrelAid headquarters to build 10 OpenBikeSensors and support the general project.

  • Goal: Learn about electronics, soldering and assembly (~10 hours build time)

  • Collect own local Data and analyse it

  • Test the idea as a blueprint for other chapters

  • Sensors are owned by CorrelAid - plans for sharing sensors with other chapters

  • Updates & Discussion on Slack: #bike-data-cologne

Bremen

• data meetups

  • started as a university course, sending out invitations through correlaid-newsletter since the beginning of the year

  • at the moment working on Shiny-App for the visualisation of Reforms of popular votes ("Volksgesetzgebung") in Germany (https://github.com/henfiedler/Volksgesetzgebung)

  • continuing with next meting april 1st, first 15 minutes is reserved for onborading of newcomers

• npo-projects

  • project with Mehr Demokratie is about to be finished --> Ongoing Review Process

  • researching new project partnerships at the moment

• exchange with lc-netherlands (Christine)

  • possible collaboration: Workshop about our current Data Meetup-Projekt

• two chapter members (Christine and Long) are taking the project lead for the sub-projects with Citizens' for Europe respectively :tada: --> good example for interaction between local CorrelAidX chapters and the "global" CorrelAid network.

Top 5: Open Questions

Would somebody like to share her/his experience during the next open onboarding call on 6th of April at 7pm? (5-10 minutes casual talk), this is super helpful for CorrelAid newbies :pray: :exclamation: due to Easter the Call will be exceptionally on a TUESDAY

TOP6 Coming events

• Data Feminism” by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein. We will meet on Thursday 18th of March at 8pm here (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87210873290?pwd=bi9HREtBQ2lqTFFtdXdGNFBLMVBIZz09&from=addon)

• TidyTuesday Challenge, every 2 weeks (every 2nd and 4th Tuesday), join the #tidytuesday Slack channel to stay tuned

• Digital Social Summit 29/30/31 of March 2021

TO DO Isabel: copy agenda to GitBook documentation!

Stay safe everyone!