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* When: Friday, November 20, 2015 - 8:00am to 5:00pm EST
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* Where: [http://sfrc.ifas.ufl.edu/forestcampus/ Learning Center at the Austin Cary Forest] (10625 NE Waldo Rd, Gainesville, FL 32609)
 
==Ideas regarding the Retreat format==
* Breakout groups
* One large discussion group
* Presentations
 
==Ideas for discussion topics at the Retreat==
* Share information from our meeting with NSF, including the new cooperative agreement and panel review summary
* How to make our training sustainable
** Converting our training materials for posterity/sustainability
** Funding for participant support will be declining after 2017
** Perhaps partner with Coursera
* Website update and sustainability
* Topics that come up at the Summit
* Automation
* Mendeley vs. Biblio
** Improve discoverability
** Keep iDigBio content and published articles separate
* Get a Library Science grad student to help us with our document repository concerns (I asked Greg R. to look for someone: JM)
* "Common knowledge" about the project
** Status of the portal and use
** Scope of data storage (ACIS)
** Role of postdocs and students in iDigBio — what they supposed to be doing?
** Citizen Science — is it in scope?
** K-12 initiatives
* The value of blitzes and hackathons

Latest revision as of 14:30, 16 November 2015