Action Items
- Melissa will send out draft of changes for the website
- Wiki page is open to fill in events information
Attendees:
- Melissa Cragin
- Alice Delage
- Laura Martin
- Erin Mullenix
- Jill Minor
- Aaron Bergstrom
- John MacMullen
General
- Spring/Fall Events planning will happen after the winter break
- Newsletter will more than likely not be sent out this month
Updates:
- Erin:
- having last big data seminar for the semester on Monday, 12/4, however not very many have signed up remotely.
- Will change structure/format to include more student participation and setup as a more collaborative and engaging experience. (i.e. start with a half-baked idea that group can work on together)
- Meeting with summer school planning team for May 2018.
- Launching data driven website on Iowa campus
- Attended meeting with presidential leader that is working on team science, establishing interdisciplinary connections. He is very interested in the Hub
- Melissa & Erin will have an off-line conversation to further discuss
- Community/local gov. research: hosting people from VA Tech to re-visit partnership and sees this as an opportunity to connect the Hub.
- Hosting Business analytics symposium in April 2018 (DesMoines, IA) - will have a lot of Industry companies coming
- Jill
- Questions:
- Wiki -Will people start using this to post events that are happening around their campus and Hub?
- Melissa: currently have been gathering information to put on website however is open to have items posted to wiki that can be pulled off and put onto website.
- Education Initiatives - especially Lior's work
- Melissa is working on putting agenda together for several steering committee meetings. And will have a webinar mid-December where Melissa will discuss further. Blog has been initiated as well.
- Gave Lior 1/3 of the supplement money to drive this initiative and will have a webinar in March of 2018.
- Aaron
- Organizing meeting with agri college folks
- Will have UAS -Ag in conjunction with media groups seminars(webinar) starting in January 2018
- Aaron to send details to Melissa to send out to all via email/newsletter
- Alice
- Website development/revamping
- Will send out suggested content changes to group to get feedback
- IT Research (CIO), Tracy Smith (PI Champ Gigabit City project) - pitch on partnership between Hub and IT Research. proposal sent in to US Ignite to further partnership
- There is a large IL Hack A Thon in order to help develop gigabit applications for the IL area. Winners will receive real dollars and support to finish developing product.
Action Items
- Melissa will send out draft of changes for the website
- Wiki page is open to fill in events information