# SRCM Notes Alexandra ### Guide [TOC] ---- ## Weekly Meeting Notes with Malvika ### [Onboarding meeting 09 April 2024](https://hackmd.io/2eAUl16HQ36E6QlnXkZwTA) ## Weekly Actions: ### 16 April week: ### 16 April 2024 (confidential) * Check the ultimate priorities with Kirstie for the RAM team * Aida's priorities: gentle line manager (teamwork builiding), handling the pressure from Executive and focusing on innovation might be a strategy (opportunistic work for Mark), currently data gathering ### 08 April Week - [x] Send message to BridgeAI team - [x] Send message to TTW team - [ ] Make the assignment of the [Foundational Commmunity Building - Part 1](https://malvikasharan.github.io/community-building-foundational-training/community-narrative.html) / Prepare the WHY's for my conversation with BridgeAI Partners * Schedule initial meetings with (keep my notes to myself, to cross solutions): * Nico :white_check_mark: * Arcangelo, learn about Standards Hub :white_check_mark: * Vera * Florian (with Malvika included) - [ ] Update my bio online and a few sentences about BridgeAI * Meeting with ISAs prep: background prep, data from them * BSI * Github with summary of all my notes. KW will be better at the meta case study (May) * Add The Turing Way Case studies in the book ---> Find a space to add it * Coffee chat with Aida to hope to collaborate with RAM and BridgeAI * In terms of skill-building, these two options were shared on the BridgeAI teams in the context of AI for businesses. Considering taking them to better understand the SMEs takeway: * https://viso.ai/deep-learning/ml-ai-models/ (Shared by one of the ISAs) * [Elements of AI](https://www.elementsofai.com/) (shared by Matt Forshat) is a free course from University of Helsinki (though it requires signup) ## [Foundational Community Building](https://malvikasharan.github.io/community-building-foundational-training/community-narrative.html) * Create my own notes with the notes from the meetings I'm having - Why, purpose (week 1) * Mapping the work on Miro (2nd week) * 3rd Chapter: Mountain of engagement ## Meeting Notes ### BridgeAI Partners ### Nico: Turing Institute Project Lead ### Arcangelo: AI Governance Research Assistant ### Vera Matser: Head of Skills * Email from Claire: we have discussed internally having a training needs assessment of the companies involved undertaken by the ISAs, this is very much in the discussion stages however it is something that could add real value and help promote other relevant programme interventions. #### ISA's / Dominica ## BridgeAI upcoming activities AI Clinic Labs * First Session (30min) AI Lab Day 2 (June 6, 2024) - Assessing Data Quality and Availability for AI Success Expert Speaker Maybe? QR Code for Menti Poll Questions related to topic. Second Session (30min) * AI Lab Day 3 (June 11, 2024) - Assembling a Skilled AI Team Expert Speaker Maybe? QR Code for Menti Poll Questions related to topic. * AI Lab Day 4 (June 13, 2024) - Choosing the Right AI Technologies Expert Speaker Maybe? QR Code for Menti Poll Questions related to topic. ### RCM Meeting 08 April - Getting stuff done and make things happen and holding space for reflection on learning. - Do something vs watch and wait for someone to do it. - Say no to some tasks, choose tasks that can empower to other people. - The easier the task, the more other people should do it - Make others feel empowered and ownership of the project - As the role is not understand in the same way by everbody, we are thrown on different tasks ---> the more I stay in the reactive mode the worst it gets - Step back and enter in the strategic mode is very important. Avoid suffocating and - Create the space to say "Not yet" - we are going to do things well. https://michaelcasanova134.medium.com/id-prefer-not-to-an-ode-to-jenny-odell-s-refusal-174036d9d74 - Reporting on what has happened, celebrating what has been done!!! - Spending time to understand the WHY about the pressures, understand the context of why the senior people behave the way they do. - Talking with individuals to understand the pressures that team are under - Draw around the people of the team, what they do and how was the relationship between them ---> having coffee with people might give you the opportunities to create and share this info ### Relevant Links for the role * [Research Community Management repo](https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/open-research-community-management/issues/297) * [Google folder with Community Management documentation](https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1JxGkABfcbnnPiFElucxSkZHwXdKWw5my) * [Community Management Onboarding Handbook](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LBat67X16v7fmM5pZzuFcTRdt8KtDhaHDTqc15MU0Qk/edit#heading=h.5ifvd9tmvah9) ## 16 April 2024 * Incentives to propose my ideas for the future, increase the interest. * Work from the leader team to create * Existing opportunities to bring into BridgeAI workstream * Don't want to invent new ideas * How can we do better, curiosity * Trainings in residence: constantly switching jobs and not sustainability * Recalibrating what we should offer as * Too capitalistic - I like people,