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# QuantEcon Planning Meeting (2pm)

## SF India Project: First Planning Meeting

### Goals of Project

**Workshop:**
  * 25 Students
  * In Person

**Online Learning:**
  * platform capable of assesing up to 10K applicants
  * target economics and non-economics backgrounds (such as Math and Computer Science)
  * offer a completion certificate to the online course

### Key questions

* What are the different parts of the project?
* What timelines should we have in place?
    * (Urgent) Determine when workshop run in India?
    * When will workshop run? Work back from there?
* What do we need to get onto straight away?
* How will we divide up responsibilities?
* How will we keep track of ideas?  Planning software?

### General thoughts / questions

* Any holes in the budget?
    * Local TAs for summer school are unpaid
    * Senior " " " " "
* We want to select the "best" students --- but what does best mean?
    * How can we select those that want to do PhDs, not work on Wall St.?
* What does Jim have in mind for a causal study?
* How can we attract the largest / best group of students to the online course?
* How should we prevent cheating on assessments?
* Who will handle local logistics?
    * E.g., who will buy a summer school attendee their train ticket if they can't affort reimbursement?
    * E.g., who will handle catering?
* How can we engage people downstream of our project?
    * predoc employers / academics
    * PhD intake committees
* How can we get sufficient TA support at the summer school, given our budget?
* What is the best time for workshops? Will our desired pool of students will instead go to internships on summer break?

### Partnerships

* Approach Universities (Local Logistic Support)?
    * Discuss with Debraj Ray?
    * [ISI](https://www.isical.ac.in)
    * [Delhi School of Economics](http://econdse.org)
    * [Indian Institute of Science](https://iisc.ac.in)
* Connect with [PyDelhi community](https://www.meetup.com/pydelhi/?_cookie-check=zQml_zwtvZItdhgZ)
* Connect with NumFOCUS PyData Delhi
* Future Funding Year 2?

### Administration

* PSL(QuantEcon) vs NumFOCUS(QuantEcon)?
* Setup private project repo to include
    * proposal
    * budgets
    * reports


## Jan/Feb QuantEcon Planning

* Smit/Maanasee Accomodation and Flights (mmcky)
    * Stipend issued to them in India to cover on-ground costs (daily rate?)

* Office Space Jan / Early Feb
    * Office for Tom
    * Office for John
    * Shared Office Space (up to 6 People)

## Other Administration

* PSL(QuantEcon) setup grants on Open Collective
    * Visibility
    * Submission of Invoices and Claims