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# useR! 2021 Debrief

[Icebreaker](#Icebreaker) - Yanina
[News](#News) - Yanina
[Breakout Rooms](#Breakout-Rooms) - Facilitators
[Wrap-up](#Wrap-up)

## Icebreaker

Add your name, which useR! team you are part of and your favorite ice cream flavour, as in the example below.

* Yanina Bellini Saibene / Global coordinator / Dulce de Leche or Chocolate with almonds.
* Elio Campitelli / Technology / Zabaglione
* Dorothea Hug Peter Global coordinator / Rasberry Sorbet, Dark Chocolate
* Pao Corrales / Diversity (CoC+surveys) team / Dulce de leche
* Natalia Morandeira / CoC response team / Dulce de leche "granizado" (with chocolate chips), or Banana split (banana with dulce de leche)
* Heather Turner / PnC / Mint choc chip
* Rocío Joo / Global coordinator / Mango and lemon
* Rachel Heyard / PnC / dark chocolate
* Adithi R. Upadhya / Sponsorship / Tender Coconut
* Sara Mortara / diversity / vanilla
* Liz Hare /technology and diversity /dark chocolate
* Janani Ravi / PnC, awards / butter scotch, dark chocolate


## News

* YouTube videos - status - if detecting captioning errors please let us know
    * now link on useR! website https://user2021.r-project.org/recordings/
* Attendance certificate: https://www.conftool.org/user2021/index.php/confirmation.pdf?page=confirmationPDF
* Blog posts/papers
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-wHAvqM8UFp5kVsMqkASiShEZzSEyE7j6Ik1cnTNEio/edit?usp=sharing
* Code of conduct 
* Diversity and satisfaction surveys 
    * satisfaction survey - some questions would be helpful to ask every year, e.g. is this your 1st useR! [-> GSoD team!]
    * qualitative feedback more helpful to decide if we learn anything for future years
    * would you come again - can be mix of would you like to come again and would you ba able to come again, also not even next year, but any time.
        * separate between newbies and oldies?
* Diversity: [https://user_2021.gitlab.io/useR_diversity_survey/#1](https://user_2021.gitlab.io/useR_diversity_survey/#1)
* Satisfaction [https://user_2021.gitlab.io/useR_2021_satisfaction_survey/](https://user_2021.gitlab.io/useR_2021_satisfaction_survey/)
* [GSoD project](https://user2021zh.slack.com/archives/CTQSSPLD8/p1626944647322800)
    * https://rconf.gitlab.io/userknowledgebase
    * https://rconf.gitlab.io/userinfoboard/dashboard

## Breakout Rooms

[Breakout Room 1](https://hackmd.io/@hturner/HJPzvtqeF/edit)
[Breakout Room 2](https://hackmd.io/@hturner/ByC4Fy6xY/edit)
[Breakout Room 3](https://hackmd.io/@hturner/H1FHF1Tet/edit)

1. Program and Content (20mins/20mins)
2. Diversity and Partners (20mins/20mins)
 

4. Tech (20mins/20mins)

Chat: [Issue on The Lounge](https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge/issues/4285). We identified that the problem is in The Lounge itself. We cannot implement a solution ourselves. We need The Lounge's devs to work on it. Plans: get them to commit on solving the issue. Contact with the useR2021 team will help, if they decide to use The Lounge for their online platform. 

There needs to be some continuity between conferences. Local teams should inherit tooling and documentation. R-Foundation can commit to using Conftool (or some other tool) for the next 5 years or so. Then local teams only worry about what they want to worry about (e.g. they can contribute to the abstract submission system without having to spend resources into other moving parts).

Global team that supports the local teams and the global side of the conference. 


5. Finance and Sponsors (20mins/20mins)
6. Communication (20 mins/20mins)

## Wrap-up

Further (anonymous) feedback on the [Google Form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUjYTjeGYwghpEqi50muQVuo8GdA-cXV-FeHw9oCMYs5enVQ/viewform?usp=sf_link).





