September 11th Weekly Update
This week, I’ve continued working on slides for the CS&S board meeting, the annual report for the Moore Foundation, and the award notification letter.
Emily Lescak
Dr. Emily Lescak is the Data Science Community Conference and Events Fund Program Manager at Code for Science and Society.
September 4th Weekly Update
This week, I worked on a presentation for the CS&S board meeting, the annual report for the Moore Foundation, and the award notice that we’ll send out to our grantees.
August 28th Weekly Update
Our submission deadline was Tuesday! Thanks to everyone who applied. The proposals are now in the capable hands of the selection committee.
August 21st Weekly Update
This week, I held the second onboarding session for the selection committee and worked with the OpenReview team to incorporate the evaluation questions into our portal for the reviewers. The application deadline is
Announcing our selection committee!
We are enthusiastic to announce our selection committee for the Summer 2020 request for proposals! Big thanks to the following individuals for applying their expertise to help us select our first cohort of
August 14th Weekly Update
Thanks to Chris and Josh for providing additional feedback on the selection committee guide. I’ve shared it with the committee and we’ll be reviewing it as a group on Tuesday. On
Best practices in organizing virtual hackathons
A conversation with Ben Busby, DNAnexus BackgroundBen was involved in about 44 hackathons over a six year period at NCBI. The majority were almost exclusively in-person with just a few online participants. After
August 7th Weekly Update
On Wednesday, I co-facilitated a session for [email protected] focused on transitioning meetings online. You can review the notes here. Next week I will be hosting the final webinar for event fund applicants.
Taking summer school online
A conversation with Marta Lloret, The European Bioinformatics Institute BackgroundThe Bioexcel Summer School on Biomolecular Simulations teaches students how to use software for molecular modeling and simulations using a combination of lectures and
July 30th Weekly Update
I’ll be co-leading a [email protected] session next Wednesday focused on best practices in virtual meeting planning. Here is the summary blog post from last week’s CSCCE meeting, where I presented
An online community conference with a llama livecast
A conversation with Jessica Hardwicke, Jo Barratt, and Serah Rono, csv,conf,v5 Backgroundcsv,conf has always been an in-person conference run by a small group of dedicated volunteers, with this year’s
July 24th Weekly Update
This week, I hosted a second webinar for potential applicants and scheduled a third and final one for August 11th. Registration is here. On Wednesday, I presented at the CSCCE community call. I’