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Next meeting: 27 August, 3-4pm, Room 801

Agenda:

  • Review last week's brainstorm
  • Report back about actions
  • Continue brainstorm/actions

Minutes from August 20, 2015

Group actions:

  • Peter to bring ice cream to the next meeting :D
  • Peter to also find out cost for CAMH biostatistics service, and invite them
  • Yuliya to speak to Melissa Levesque about us presentating at Research rounds
  • Jon to speak to David about SCC connectivity on CAMH TransformingLives wifi
  • Joe to look into surveying labs on their "workflows" (see below)

Computing issues we've identified:

  • Managing lab software “bits and pieces” (how to document and organize)
  • Lack of computing skills of researchers
  • How to best organize computational analyses
  • Maintain organizational memory (best practices) -- e.g. wiki
  • Underuse of computing power
  • Moving data from T drive to non-CAMH networked computers

Idea brainstorm of solutions to address issues:

Understand the problem better

  • Survey workflows across labs to find out what is done and needed: [Joe to investigate]
    • how are people doing their work? (OS, software, ...)
    • what are hinderences, e.g. are people working from home because of network connectivity issues?
    • what are best practices for issues above.

Improve access to/use of technology

  • Journals should be accessible to researchers on the CAMH network
  • Researchers should be able to mount storage on non-CAMH workstations
    • both in the RIC and outside of the RIC.
    • is there a PHI issue?
  • CAMH provided “research workstation” (Windows and/or Mac/Linux) that has:
    • admin access, for software installs
    • journal access
    • common research tools
  • Remote desktop access to the SCC
  • Remote desktop access to a research VM to enable custom software/environment
  • CAMH wifi connection to the SCC should work [Jon to ask David]
  • Modernize the SCC OS (since packages hard to compile already)
  • Custom OS per lab on the SCC

More talk between lab experts to share institutional knowledge

  • Creating a venue for knowledge sharing
  • Central portal for labs to share knowledge/practices (on the Research IT portal?)
  • SCC User Group (message board/mailing list) for help/feedback
  • socials with ice cream (low fat option for Peter) *

Face-to-face computing support in each lab

  • floating few experts avail to each lab
  • expert per lab?
  • experts should know how to navigate ResearchIT, and analysis best practices, etc.
  • experts can assist in sharing knowledge between labs
  • need people to go for “advanced” analysis/statistics help (stuff that is not easily google-able)
  • A “free” biostatistics service [Peter to find out current cost]
  • Faster responses to SCC requests or else people won't bother
  • One member from lab having “admin” access on the SCC to install packages, etc.. (Perhaps a sandboxed area for admins to add to the quarantine)

Legitimacy/advocacy of this issue:

  • Invite the SCC admin to this group, and also David or else worry that this group has no legitimacy/voice [Jon to ask David]
  • Present at Research Rounds to let lab heads hear about these issues, bet buy in [Yuliya to ask Melissa]