21.06.2021

tags: correlaidx calls

TOP0 Introduction

moderation: Isabel present: Andrew, Phil, Sophie

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

  • Sommerfest coming up: save the date in the monthly newsletter

  • next project cycle: kick-off 9/10 July

  • short personal note: this is already my (Isabel) last CorrelAidX Call :scream_cat: Thank you so much for your great commitment, ideas and input. I am looking forward to seeing how everything grows and flourishes until I come back in August. :muscle:

TOP2: CorrelAidX documentation / strategy / recommendations

  • New chapter in Jena coming up :tada: 12 people involved so far, Kick-off Meeting this week. Spread the word if you know interested people from Jena (or Weimar or Erfurt)

  • New Chapter in Spain coming up, in close cooperation with Data4Good Barcelona

TOP3: Local Chapter Update (Short)

Netherlands

  • New projects:

    • Macheo (with Jan the intern)

    • Simavi (3 analysts)

    • Safetipin (starting this week)

    • Observation international (probably next week)

  • ongoing projects:

    • SLK (geospatial analysis and story of deforestation Kosovo)

  • Looking to exit projects:

    • Masterpeace (search of social innovations)

    • Gmoji (predicting emotional state through self-reported emojis)

Slowly making headway in horizontal organisation formalisation

Organised 2 meetups:

  • Tax havens and how to find them with data

  • Data science for conservation of nature

Next meetups:

Konstanz

  • new workshop comming up (https://www.uni-konstanz.de/lehren/advanced-data-and-information-literacy-track-adilt/)

    • local chapter cooperation with city of Konstanz and Frie :tada:

    • focus on open data and how students can contribute to CorrelAid (Konstanz)

  • preparing transition as lots of us leave Konstanz

  • ongoing projects:

    • R/Python packages (need to write documentation for City of Konstanz as they want to mention us)

    • Stolpersteine (local chapter)

      • data cleaning and infrastructure

    • Stolpersteine (cross chapter Rhein-Main)

      • no updates

München

  • Update from Munich: We might start a new project related to Inclusion, we've had talks at the Ludwig Maximilan University in Munich and at a company interested in cooperation/sponsoring and we are planning an offline community event soon :)

Rhein-Main

  • Monthly meeting tomorrow: Intro to data cleaning by the Paradise Papers Project Team

  • Ongoing Projects:

    -- Paradise Papers (internal project)

    -- Bee Observer - might pick up again

    -- Stolpersteine (joint with Konstanz)

  • Hoping to do an in-person meeting later this summer!

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Top 5: Open Questions

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

TOP 6: Community Idea

host an OODM on the Use R conference to share learning experiences and insights with each other. Phil will reach out to Garret and Walter :white_check_mark:

TOP7 Coming events

  • CorrelAidX Jena Event: Webscraping Workshop: 23 June 2021 at 6 pm. Register here.

  • soon first OODM again

  • the next CorrelAidX Call will be "self-organized" or: who could step in to prepare the agenda, send a reminder to the channel, do the moderation?

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