IGEM:Melbourne/2008/Agendas/Meeting2

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Team 2.0

Link to First Meeting Minutes

Meeting Date: 21 December, 2008 (6pm)

Meeting Location: Bio21 Level 1 Conference Room, Meeting Outside at specified time.

Meeting Logistics: someone buy lollies, probably borrow projector again

Present: insertnamehere

Absent: insertnamehere

Current Time ~ 2.0 hours

Meeting Primer

• minutes taker
• time keeper

Action from last Meeting

• Access Cards
• OpenWetWare - wiki
• internet handover (di)
• iGEM primer (everyone)

Administrative

Expectations for the year ahead...

• Preliminary Timetable
  • Dec-Jan-Feb - heavy brainstorm/research
  • Jan-Feb - Begin Lab work (prelim)
  • end of Feb - project finalised, order parts from registry or other labs, start modelling
  • Feb - start creating timeline/plan of when things should happen (or do this earlier)
  • Mar-Apr - start the hardcore lab, modelling
  • May - iGEM seminar (register team/project)
  • Jun-Jul - more lab and modelling
  • Aug-Sep - more lab and modelling... hopefully finishing most things by now ... making sure wiki is up-to-date
  • Oct - send DNA to MIT, finish wiki
  • Nov - go to Jamboree

Team Dyanmics

• [Effective Team Dynamics] - have a read ... some good stuff if you wish to use it...
• (30min)OGSM framework - objectives / goals / strategies / measurements : up to you if you want to use it...
  • objectives - make finals/win the biobrick/
  • goals - solve a specific medical/environmental/energy problem / 1000 submitted biobricks / extensive modelling
  • strategies - proposed actions to achieve goals
    • brainstorm, research, plan, work, pray, go to jamboreee!!!
  • measurements -
    • 1/3 month review ... measure progress
    • how is the wiki being maintained... standard wiki processes for creating new pages etc.
    • is the lab work productive/ is the work load spread out
    • create a time line ... of what you hope to achieve when ... give yourself deadlines [very rough at first], and review when you come to them ...
    • this is likely to be a complex construction timeline... do you want to use Project/Gantt charts ie find critical path etc, who will do this ??? it def would have been useful for us ... since things were just always being pushed back

• (5min)team procedures - minutes, agenda, wiki, accountability
• (5min)team rules - meeting attendance, communication, meeting snacks

Roles

• (10min)
• not defined at start, but define as you go along?
• suggestions...
  • chief wiki maintainer
  • lab coordinator
  • modeling coordinator
  • research coordinator
• rotate responsibility for agenda/minutes
• circular accountability???
• it's up to you?
• primary contact (for iGEM)?
• igem administrative person
  • in charge of tickets/hotels/deadlines/payments... have this as one person?
  • need to have team name
  • need to have team logo
  • need to have team t-shirt
  • need to have team mascot ... just kidding

Brainstorming/Research

• (15min)suggestions
  • individual - go away and research on your own, come back with suggestions in Jan
  • buddy - team up with one other person and work together
  • whole team - coordinated creativity on wiki

Synthetic Biology Society

• first meeting?
• what do we want this for?

Finalise Action Points

• minutes done by insertname and inserttime
• next meeting agenda coordinated by insertname and inserttime
• iGEM primer parts to be done by insertname and insert date

Next Meeting Time

• insert here