19.04.2021

CorrelAidX Call 19.04.2021

tags: correlaidx calls

TOP0 Introduction

moderation: Isabel present: Oriane, Ricardo, Konrad, Liam, Daniel, Benjamin, Clemens, Florian, Garrett, Simon, Thomas

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

Top0: Welcome

TOP1: CorrelAid news:

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

• NEW BLOG: CorrelAid Codes --> https://codes.correlaid.org, Konrad who was part of the team which set-up the blog is happy give a short introduction for your chapter

• Project cycle started :tada: Kick-off and first workshops completed. Feel free to join the upcoming workshops

• A (anti)hackathon-like event planned for early June by D3. We can formulate an offer as a social organization/as experts with specific requirements, e.g. give a specific workshop, or do a data visualization project that requires data in a specific form, and D3 will coordinate matching an organization with the appropriate need. All still a bit fuzzy, if you are interested to offer something as a local chapter, please contact Frie, she will put you in touch with D3.

• Next Strategy Meeting on 1st of May with the topic fundraising: please join us for this important mission, and register here

• Event on how to become a team lead / project coordinator in the planning for the 18th of June

TOP2: CorrelAidX documentation / strategy / recommendations

• Frie composed a guide to help with the decision “do we do a project with this NPO or not?” If you are in the decision process, please take a look. When in doubt, please join the Core Team Call (every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month at 7 pm), access info in the #telko channel

• 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

• New chapter in Jena coming up :tada: 4 people involved so far, Kick-off Meeting in the planning. 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

• Data Feminism bookclub Mar 18

  • Sylvi is giving a summary as a lightning talk at our monthly meeting

• Ocean Now! project will be run as part of Berlin photo week

  • Aug 26, 2021 – Fri, Sep 3, 2021

• We're doing some cross-chapter lightning talks with Cologne!

• Rotary Club Presentation Mar 18 (haven't heard the outcome yet)

Netherlands

Ongoing projects:

• VVN (traffic NGO)

• SLK (satellite imagery deforestation Kosovo)

• Gmoji (youth wellbeing)

• Masterpeace (search platform for social innovations)

Last month:

• Meetup on ethics in AI

• Donate effectively fell through - will restart in August

• Bi-monthly core-team retrospective:

  • People are busy with life and work and studies - There was need for a reiteration that we are volunteers and that means that life and work take precendence over CorrelAid. We definitely see solutions in organisational structures to mitigate the outcomes of this mantra of Life, then Work, then if you have time and headspace: CorrelAid.

• Scoping:

  • HiiL

  • Macheo

  • TNI

  • Observation International

This Month:

• Local Lightning Talk evening

• Meetup: Data and Nature Conservation

• Experimenting with Horizontal Organization structures for NPO engagement team

• Looking at Non-Commercial partnerships/networks with CxOs of Commercial companies

• Starting with a Data Science intern!

• Scoping:

  • HiiL

  • Macheo

  • TNI

  • Open Democracy

  • The Present

Konstanz

• Education: Call with Uni statistics tutors, schedule is set and we are working on the content, hosting on our own website

• Stolpersteine: data-cleaning and setting up infrastructure

  Stolpersteine with Frankfurter Chapter: first contact, going to get in direct contact with artist (via our contact in KN)

• Open Data: Open Government Dialogue, helping with data, project until June/july, refactoring and testing packages, IBH project

• ADILT: presentation in July, focus on open data, show off our packages

• PR/Twitter --> feel free to get in touch to share things for comm :)

Rhein-Main

• Monthly zoom meet-ups, next on Tuesday, 27 April with a coding tutorial on feature engineering in Python

• Looking into a project collaboration with LC Konstanz on Stolpersteine memorial cobble stones (see also above in Konstanz section)

München

• Education: we are preparing an internal SQL-workshop, it will be open for everyone so if you're interested you can join us

• Projects: upcoming project with the Wildvogel-Pflegestation Kirchwald e.V. (bird rehabilitation station)

• Visibility: several possibilities to introduce CorrelAid to new people

  • barcamp meetup

  • consultancy Conet

  • LMU presentation

Leipzig

• We just moved past the constitutional phase

• monthly meetings

• There will be a meeting in the upcoming week where we will discuss a potential project, we'll keep you posted

Top 5: Open Questions

Would somebody like to share her/his experience during the next open onboarding call on 3rd of Mai at 7pm? (5-10 minutes casual talk), this is super helpful for CorrelAid newbies :pray:

TOP6 Coming events

• Project Cycle workshop on theory of change: Thursday, 22nd of April at 7pm, register here

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

• CorrelAid Strategy Meeting 2021, on 1st of May from 9.30-1pm, register here

TO DO Isabel: copy agenda to GitBook documentation!

Stay safe everyone!