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title: meta-omics leads meeting notes
tags: [meetings, meeting notes, meta-omics, special-interest-groups]

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# meta-omics leads meeting notes

## 2024-05-23

Attended: James, Daniel, Carson
Apologies: Danielo (mistake)

### Agenda

- Shit, now what do we do?
- Bytesize!
    - What to talk about
- First kick-off meeting
- What else do we want to do?
    - General meetings?
    - Technical meetings (pipeline coordination)
    - nf-core for meta-omics show case?
    - Traditional 'seminar' with presentation and Q/A?
    - metagenomics specific hackathon?

### Minutes

Checklist 

 - [x] Website
 - [ ] Bytesize
     - [ ] In Autumn (Daniel & James) -> early september
 - [ ] First meeting

Prioritise:

- First priotity: technical things: pipeline integration (e.g. primary vs secondary) 
- Open meeting: 
    - With all pipeline devs, make some decisions for streamling linking
    - Mini hackathon to add samplesheets
    - Mini hackathon to document tutorials on how to link different pipelines
- How to guide people to to right place: 'how to I use nf-core for my research'
- Showcase day:
    - Intro to metagenomics in nf-core
    - Round-robin presentations of all pipelines (15m?)
    - Split into tutorial rooms, where poeple can get mini workshop with dev on gitpod on one or two
    - Final: office hours for seeting up nf-core configs on infrastructure (lots of nf-core experts)
- Benefits:
    - Generate commmon material to run pipeline
    - Motivate generation: common material how to understand output
        
Timeline:

- September: Bytesize
- October: first open meeting (with all pipeline devs)
    - Whos interested?
    - Who would be willing to do a showcase talk and workshop
    - Who would be willing to act as a PoC
- November/December: mini-hackathons for samplesheet coordination and documetnation
- Q1 (sometime): meta-omics in nf-core showcase

Informal mentorship

- If volunteer, assign a 'point of contact'
- Have a list of people (experts), to help with orientating people in nf-core


### Action Points

- [ ] Tell core bytesize schedule (find a date)
- [ ] Set reminder to find best date for open-meeting in August for late September/early October
    - Not too late
- [ ] Set second lead meeting early september