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Real Committees

Ali Kuwajerwala edited this page Jan 11, 2023 · 17 revisions

Maintainer: Liam/Glen

Committees and Groups

This is a list of the committee in the lab. The idea is that each committee has more than one person, and each is part of more than one committee to help us decentralize the work. Some committees may be more work than others, and we can work on load balancing. For now, there is a list, but we should also have a description of the responsibilities of each committee, so we know the committee's scope.

Onboarding:

Summary: Make sure all/new students are added to the various slack pages, computer servers, email lists, etc.

Hours/week: 1

Members: Simon, Ali K

Webpage:

Summary: Keep the webpage up to date with new papers, news and students and consider how to improve the website to serve the lab better.

hours/week: 1

Members: Kaustubh

Media and promotion:

Summary: Help promote the great work the lab is doing via, twitter, blog posts, encourage workshops, etc.

Hours/week: 1

Members: Ali K, Mostafa, Glen

Social:

Summary: Plan events for the group. The idea is to help make sure students stay in touch, get to experience some of Montreal, and "increase the fun."

Hours/week: 0.5

Members: Charlie, Mostafa

Hardware:

Summary: Keep track of the hardware in the lab. What state the hardware is in, create documentation for the hardware, etc. Also, look into ordering requested and approved hardware.

Hours/week: 0.5

Member: Manfred, Miguel, Kirsty

Funding:

Summary: Keep track of the lab coffers. Things need money. Consider applying to different grants depending on the cost/benefit of success on applications. Prepare for yearly NSERC rounds, etc. Maybe also look into how to get more grants for international students.

Hours/week: 4 (feels like 40...)

Members: Liam, Glen, Steven

Computer Maintenance:

Summary: Keep the shared computers up to date and running in the lab. Also, create accounts for new students on the computers. Consider if we need additional compute resources for our special hardware (robots). Lab compute server.

Hours/Week: 1

Members: Miguel, Kirsty, Roger, Simon

Compute Canada:

Summary: Manage Compute Canada accounts. Create accounts for new students. Create scripts to deploy code on Compute Canada clusters.

Hours/Week: 1

Members: Charlie, Mostafa, Kaustubh

Robotics and ML Seminar/reading group:

Summary: Manage and organize the REAL seminar. Contact potential presenters. Organize the schedule for presenters. Promote the seminar.

Hours/week: 1

Members: Manfred, Glen, Adriana

Lab Maintenance:

Summary: Schedule cleaning of the lab. Keep track of where the lab hardware is located, its condition, and who is using it.

Members: Glen, Liam, Charlie, Miguel

Feedback committee

Summary: Senior students give feedback on proposals and scholarship submissions

Members: Glen, Liam

Spaghetti throwing sessions (REAL talk)

Summary: Make sure people are scheduled to present. Update the meeting time for new terms if needed. Remind people about the meeting and who will be presenting.

Members: Charlie, Albert

Lab group meeting organization:

Summary: Make sure people are scheduled to present. Update the meeting time for new terms if needed. Remind people about the meeting and who will be presenting.

Members: Steven, Roger

Lab Retreat:

Summary: We should plan a retreat once a year for us to gather, exchange ideas, socialize and discuss what we have learned this year and what we should work on next year.

Members: Glen, Albert, Adriana, Liam

Other committees??

Let us know if you think there is another committee that should be created.