Weekly report for the week of 2015-10-26

This is the second weekly update on what I’ve been doing for the CWL; it covers the week of 2015-10-26.

Summary: logistics, Code of Conduct draft public,

Sunday 2015-10-25

• Reserved rental car for Davis/San Mateo/Santa Clara legs
• Requested hotel reservation information for Austin leg
• Booked AirBNB room for Boston leg
• Schedule first check-in meeting with Brandi
• Confirmed dates for a colleague of a colleague to stay in my Davis apartment

Monday 2015-10-26

• Read through every GitHub issue from non-core team people, adding responses and labels as I went
• Finished my NSF funding opportunities education for now; subscribed to learn about future opportunities
• Sent out reminder about CWL video meeting & daylight savings mismatch between Europe and US
• Fixed typo in GitHub repository as reported by Chris Fields
• Wrote up notes from last week and sent them out

Tuesday 2015-10-27

• Reviewed Code of Conduct options again, made pull request to take the conversation public as requested by the leadership team
• Reviewed and merged https://github.com/common-workflow-language/common-workflow-language/pull/152
• Ran regular CWL group video chat, our largest yet with 17 participants!
• Next meeting will be on November 10th.
• Sent out location & remote participation guidance
• Took notes at the meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wZN0m2Vu4Cpqhd50HgcxJG_fxI4034qBWTZxRn1kbCw/edit?usp=sharing

Wednesday 2015-10-28

• Bi-weekly meeting with Brand Davis-Dusenbery

• Lawyers advised that non-profits seeking 501(3)c status involving free/open-source software and whose donors are on the board have had many troubles getting approved due to lack of separation. I agreed to chat with both NumFOCUS & the Software Freedom Conservatory about fiscal sponsorship.
• Brandi agreed to be the escalation contact for potential (though not expected) CoC violations by Nebojša.
• Scheduled meeting at SBG prior to conversation at the Broad about their Workflow Description Language on Nov 13th.
• I enquired about recording/broadcasting the Festival of Genomics workshop; Brandi will followup.

• Made a logo: http://logomakr.com/2xjnRU implemented a favicon using http://www.favicomatic.com/done
• Setup Hangouts on Air streaming which required creating a YouTube channel, G+ page, and several verifications.

Thursday 2015-10-29

• Travel day: CLJ-OTP-AMS-MSP-SMF
• Voiced my support for keeping a ‘–dry-run’ option to cwltool

Friday 2015-10-30

• Attended an excellent workshop, “Software for Science: Getting Credit for Code” #SoftCiteUCD http://icis.ucdavis.edu/?p=790
• Had great conversations with Louise Kellogg of the Computational Infrastructure for Geosciences group. https://geodynamics.org/cig/about/

Saturday 2015-11-01

• Whoops, sublet for my apartment fell through. Gave away most everything I could and moved my things to storage.