Hello group,
I believe Melodie and Quentin are in Leipzig already, and the rest of us are coming by the end of the week.
I remind you that we meet on 9 July, Saturday at noon at the iDIV building, local arrival tips and agenda is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCca5wyJYN1fly3xUeSaAGe2q_H-6lWgiN4AdDrR.... We will start by a sandwich lunch, and the actual meeting will start at 13:00.
Because our effective time was compressed to about two days, from mid-Saturday to Monday afternoon, it would be very nice if you could complete / think about the agreed "homework" tasks before we meet.
Here are the outstanding tasks:
1. Doodle for the dates for the second meeting http://doodle.com/poll/6kv5x2ng7sst32nr: Melodie, John.
2. Survey was now drafted in the Survey Monkey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MM6RW6T, feel free to test-answer this and send me you suggestions, preferably before Wed next week. We will of course continue in Leipzig. I also attach a PDF version of the same draft if you are more comfortable with the printout. Note that the survey is much shorter than the ones used by GBIF fitness for use groups before (which maybe a good thing), but also some questions and answers were formulated differently. You might want to compare your latest draft with the earlier surveys archived for you here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzrSPi8wkHZ8Qnk0X3NuSmVhblU.Please refer to a particular question number and add your comments to top part of the same google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AIrL5yFvG-Oj1fyGPS1h9vRbSGCt8FFKD2ZuvIC6... In addition here are some good points from Mette Munk, a new secretary at GBIF who helped me with survey:
* ....discuss, which questions are the most important for you to get answers to. People tend to lose interest/concentration after a while so it's best to put the less important questions at the end - for instance which institution they're from, what their role is - although it may seem to make more sense to put this at the top - it's questions that the person answering doesn't need to think about, so it might be better to put them at the end.
* .... think about what exactly you need the answers for? There are a lot of multiple choice questions and free text questions - this will provide a very vague survey, but if what you need is input and ideas then this would be ok - but if you need answers to specific questions you should make sure they're in the questionnaire and that the answer options are very specific (yes/no, 2 years/10 years etc.).
3. The expert listhttps://drive.google.com/open?id=1Byyg7vYAqPoWCdkI_wU6PLsycQw6nq4J4ZSx303y6F8 for use in survey is nearly complete, only names from Gregory are missing. Feel free to add more than 10 key names!
4. Please don't postpone adding your topics, ideas, section to the report drafthttps://drive.google.com/open?id=1FOX4m6FAF38jcuXieIVK-nuy86Jfl2hnUo4LmSBCIVo, the texts do not need to be perfect and final, it's a working document. Use and contribute to collection of resource documentshttps://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_uojZ1Ob6Czb3ozOEZocFlkRUk and referenceshttps://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_uojZ1Ob6CzZkRFOFlEVURYR3c.
5. A reminder that In/soon after Leipzig, according to ToRshttps://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzrSPi8wkHZ8d1lXOHdrc1ZOaGM, and we are expected to produce a short intermediate report in July 2016. In addition to here-we-are-we-started-to-work, we could include the section structure and some early recommendation that would take shape after Leipzig. This can be very short, 3-4 pages, and it is likely to be included to the document package that is distributed before the GBIF Governing Board meeting, which will take place in October in Brasilia. As Shyama will be attending an IAS meeting in Samoa in August, the key points from the intermediate report could be packed into the presentation. We are working on a GBIF slide doc template that could be a nice way to pack the intermediate report.
Here comes a reference from the June catch of literature tracking by GBIF http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12665-016-5826-8
See you soon,
Dmitry Schigel
Mobile +45 30 45 02 25 E-mail dschigel@gbif.orgmailto:dschigel@gbif.org