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title: '2023-05-17 Meeting with CZI: Funding for Cambridge Hackathon'

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# 2023-05-17 Meeting with CZI: Funding for Cambridge Hackathon

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tags: [scverse, czi, hackathon, funding, sanger]
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Attendees:
Emma Dann, Isaac Virshup, Lisa Dratva, Ivana Jelic, Gregor Sturm

## Notes

* What kind of events
* Ivana: up to 40 makes sense for event type, otherwise much greater amount of organization
* Emma sanger needs:
    * Travel to campus
    * Dinner
* What CZI needs
    * Breakdown of costs
        * Local travel, Dinner
        * Sponsorship for travel
    * Needs to be at least 3 months ahead
* CZI what would CZI want in return?
    * Could just be gift of support
    * Other times want some sort of output:
    * Cellxgene

Qs:

* If this event is something CZI wants to help out with, what other kinds of events?
    * So there have been workshops and conferences
        * Workshop by someone else that was sponsered
    * Sponsorships of competitions
        * E.g. open problems
    * NIH, northwestern clinical data
        * Will share info
* What kinds of help?
    * Locations?
        * Events maybe, but big and a year in advance
* What kinds of projects
    * Working with open problems?
        * Ideally at multidisciplinary
    * Cellxgene meeting?
        * They are planning something in august


## Follow up:

* We need to get them estimates on costs
* Isaac will check in on cellxgene meeting