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Problems & Solutions

jakevdp edited this page Oct 8, 2014 · 2 revisions

Problems

Here are the ideas about problems we need to solve:

  • Working Group communication

    • Beyond calls between leads, how do they interact?
  • Redundant work

    • How do we passively observe & learn from what other institutions are working on?
    • tension between sharing work & trying things independently
  • Motivation & Accountability

  • Cross-institute Cohesion

    • How do we keep the sense of cohesion: daily reminders that we're all in this together?

Solutions

  • Communication: UW has weekly bulletins of what is going on. We could share these among the institutions.
  • Technology: The "wormhole" idea is great, but a more structured view could be very useful. Ideas:
    • how about a second screen showing a feed of what's going on? Perhaps github commits, new repositories created, live chat logs, perhaps an auto-generated natural language description drawn from RSS feeds? (then do a startup with that technology)
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