diff --git a/kirstie-whitaker/2026-01.md b/kirstie-whitaker/2026-01.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d621157 --- /dev/null +++ b/kirstie-whitaker/2026-01.md @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +# Weeknotes: January 2026 + +## w/c 5 January 2026 + +### Inbox tracker + +* 💌 11am Monday: 4315 +* 💌 5pm Monday: 4321 +* 💌 11:59pm Wednesday: 4363 + +### Rose-bud-thorn + +#### 🌹 + +* + +#### 🌱 + +* What a joy to be in a call with Turing / UK folks who have scoped TRE requirements and Jupyter experts! Worlds colliding in a really exciting way 🤞 + +#### 🌵 + +* + +### 🤝 Reciprocal support + +#### Who did I help? + +* + +#### Who helped me? + +* MH took me out for lunch and was so kind and supportive 🥹 +* Really appreciate YP, AJ and RG brainstorming community manager recruitment in the Jupyter Hub / Jupyter Book collaboration cafe! + +### Activities / tasks + +#### What did I do? + +* 🤖 AI Futures Lab + * + * +* 🤝 BIDS Leadership & Operations + * Achieve Together with LH - such a joy to be building processes together - and delivering so many events and activites! + * 1:1 with Lilli - set a few plans for the next couple of weeks. + * Scheduled Achieve Together meetings with LH, MRK and JM + * Went out for lunch with JK - did some planning for how to best support and enable the interns this year + * 1:1 with AH - such a supportive conversation + * 1:1 with ThT - really appreciate her clear answers to finance process questions! + * Joined coffee chat with DSE team - lovely to connect with SP, MF and CM 💖 + * Registered for "Research Software Engineering in the Age of Generative AI: Building a Community Vision" event in Edinburgh in March - can't wait! + * Catch up with AC and TTh + * Suggested that they apply to be [research affiliates](https://bids.berkeley.edu/join/faculty-research-affiliation) 💖 + * +* ⚖️ CRELS + CSSTP + * + * +* 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Cultural Analytics + * + * +* 🪐 Jupyter + * Hosted Collaboration Cafe for Jupyter Hub and Jupyter Book + * Attended meeting with folks in the UK exploring how Jupyter Hub can be useful for trustworthy research environments +* 🩻 OPH + * 1:1 with SC - so helpful what a joy! +* ☀️ OSPO + * 1:1 with SL - very helpful discussion of where Berkeley OSPO strategy fits into OSPO Network workplan + * 1:1 with LL - a delight! +* 🌳 Scientific Python + * + * +* 🌱 The Turing Way + * Joined the collaboration cafe and had a really interesting chat with CGvP + * + +#### What did I not do? + +* 🤖 AI Futures Lab + * + * +* 🤝 BIDS Leadership & Operations + * Submitted my achive together form + * +* ⚖️ CRELS + CSSTP + * + * +* 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Cultural Analytics + * + * +* 🪐 Jupyter + * Arranged BIDS-2i2c Strategic Partnership council meeting + * +* 🩻 OPH + * + * +* ☀️ OSPO + * Made a few updates to funding proposal + * Promoted GSOC offer from SL + * Reviewed, signed and promoted the ADSA [Position Statement on Generative AI in the RSE Workplace](https://github.com/Academic-Data-Science-Alliance/rse-ai-position-statement/blob/main/RSE-AI-Final_Statement.md) + * +* 🌳 Scientific Python + * + * +* 🌱 The Turing Way + * + * \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/kirstie-whitaker/2026-02.md b/kirstie-whitaker/2026-02.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..04ca94b --- /dev/null +++ b/kirstie-whitaker/2026-02.md @@ -0,0 +1,158 @@ +# Weeknotes: February 2026 + +## w/c 9 February 2026 + +### Inbox tracker + +* 💌 7:30pm Thursday: 5135 +* 💌 11pm Thursday: 4614 + +### Rose-bud-thorn + +#### 🌹 + +* The 1:1s with the CRELS and CSS training programs students are my version of "touch grass" - I feel SO motivated and proud whenever I get to hear what they're working on 💖 + +#### 🌱 + +* Really loved doing a deep dive with the STRUDEL curriculum team - I can see so many links to our messaging around the human and community engagement needed for trusted open source software + +#### 🌵 + +* I've not done a good job promoting the [UC Open Source Summit](https://ucospo.net/events/uc-open-2026/) [CFP](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfh5orXB5EFp7JCQAec7ynHN9FkyHszkAmKAioKlOsKVVwuEA/viewform) 😢 + +### 🤝 Reciprocal support + +#### Who did I help? + +* I hope I helped some of the CRELS / CSS students 🤞 + +#### Who helped me? + +* SvdW gave me a lot of his time to listen to some of my insecurities and reassure me 🥹 +* LWH is doing an amazing job keeping the annual report moving forwards 💪 + +### Activities / tasks + +#### What did I do? + +* 🤖 AI Futures Lab + * Met with the BIDS interns + I'm so delighted that they're getting their versions of these weeknotes in! + * STRUDEL event went really well 🥐 + * Confirmed event with Astera team for 13 - 15 April +* 🤝 BIDS Leadership & Operations + * Made some progress on the BIDS annual report with LWH + * 1:1 w TT - always a delight, lots of great ideas and applications brewing! + * 1:1 w AH - always so supportive - even when we have different perspectives! + * Space meeting! + We're moving into the Gateway so soon! +* ⚖️ CRELS + CSSTP + * Led a second team science discussion + * Met with 5 students - they're all SO WONDERFUL! Every meeting ran long 🙈🥰 +* 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Cultural Analytics + * Attended the Bellweather Lecture: [Making Sense of the World through Language and Stories: A Digital Humanities Perspective](https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2026/making-sense-world-through-language-and-stories-digital-humanities-perspective) - fascinating + * Supported Tim in submitting a grant application +* 🪐 Jupyter + * 1:1 with JG - fantastic time planning our work together! + * GeoJupyter strategy meeting +* 🩻 OPH + * Joined my first software meeting - really excited to have this work be more open and accessible 🌞 +* ☀️ OSPO + * Group lunch with the Superbloom team - really fun to catch up + * Gave a talk at the STRUDEL contributor workshop: + * DOI: [10.5281/zenodo.18601850](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18601850) + * Went ok, I should have put in some slides about AI... that was really all anyone wanted to discuss in the Q&A 😅🤖 + * Joined the curriculum breakout room at the STRUDEL workshop - really enjoyed the discussion! + * https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/rapid-usability-tutorial + * Wrote up a few issues to capture ideas [#21](https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/rapid-usability-tutorial/issues/21), [#22](https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/rapid-usability-tutorial/issues/21) and [#23](https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/rapid-usability-tutorial/issues/23) + * Joined the PREreview advisory committee 👋 + * Had a lovely call with DS + * Sent a few invites to encourage folks to present at UC Open Source Summit! +* 🌳 Scientific Python + * Made progress on a blog post on a specific example of scikit-image is used on campus + * Also introduced SvdW to one of the interns and he gave a really lovely overview of the origins of scikit-image! +* 🌱 The Turing Way + * Steering committee meeting - good discussion, and good focus on strategic partnerships, strategic communications, and focusing on communicating what we HAVE in 2026 💪 + +## w/c 2 February 2026 + +### Inbox tracker + +* *didn't track* + +### Rose-bud-thorn + +#### 🌹 + +* I'm proud of my budget projection code and visualizations! + * Feels good to have these numbers in a place that I can interrogate :money_with_wings: + +#### 🌱 + +* Open Platforms for Health team retreat was incredibly useful and lots of fun! + * Definitely easier to see where I can be helpful having spent dedicated time with the whole team. + +#### 🌵 + +* I keep doing a bad job with setting up the Jupyter Book team for a constructive collaboration cafe. + * Aaaaah to be in more places at the same time! + +### 🤝 Reciprocal support + +#### Who did I help? + +* MF graciously listened to my mega rant about how to chair a collaboration cafe 😂 + * I might have been helpful there - time will tell! + +#### Who helped me? + +* CH was a great listening ear and had some very sage advice when I was having a frustrated day 😌♟️ + +### Activities / tasks + +#### What did I do? + +* 🤖 AI Futures Lab + * Proposed engagement plan to BIDS leadership + * Met with BIDS interns +* 🤝 BIDS Leadership & Operations + * Played around with Gemini to code up some budget projections + * I'm pretty proud of the figures! + And I think wrangling pandas and specific settings for matplotlib is probably a good use of an LLM - the human version was just copying and pasting from stackoverflow in the past :sweat_smile: + * Also used the AI Futures Lab Jupyter Hub which was very helpful! + * Coordinated with SP to transfer an existing BIDS fund to FP. + * I am becoming all powerful with my Cal Answers access! + * Prepped FP for a call discussing a potential future collaboration + * Annual report fun times with LH + * Got a couple of quotes and figured out a good messaging strategy for a project that doesn't fit into a clear box :relieved: + * Leadership meeting + * Big Give prep call + * 1:1 w AH + * 1:1 w FP - very helpful brainstorming +* ⚖️ CRELS + CSSTP + * TEAM SCIENCE YO! + * The discussion went better than I'd expected 😂 + I think two people said "Oh, that's what team science is? I've been doing that!" 😂 + * Sent out an email with resources inc [slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1buG9-qajP1WZOihfoGdwCAACAu2e8NhFTpJEv3uGyvY/edit?usp=sharing) + * Met with two students - what a delight! +* 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Cultural Analytics + * Just said hi to the CARL crew! +* 🪐 Jupyter + * Chaired JupyterHub and Jupyter Book collaboration cafe + * Discussed the roadmapping workshop that's coming up and exactly what we're trying to achive! + * GeoJupyter technical meeting +* 🩻 OPH + * Team retreat!! + What a fun couple of days! + I definitely learned a lot, and came away with a better idea of the pieces of work that need to be done 💪 + * Constructive meeting with CH re: 2i2c's role + * Leadership meeting + * 1:1 with LK - so excited to be working togther +* ☀️ OSPO + * Supported CC in sponsoring UC Open Summit! + * I completely smashed MF in Dominion 😂 + * I love that he runs these remote social calls. + I enjoy them so much when I'm able to attend! +* 🌱 The Turing Way + * Collaboration Cafe - had a good discussion with LH about accessibility and pathways for getting folks engaged through the Jupyter Book community 🤞 diff --git a/kirstie-whitaker/README.md b/kirstie-whitaker/README.md index d38c1ca..2cd8394 100644 --- a/kirstie-whitaker/README.md +++ b/kirstie-whitaker/README.md @@ -1,9 +1,13 @@ # Kirstie Whitaker -* August 2025: [2025-08.md](./2025-08.md) -* June 2025: [2025-06.md](./2025-06.md) -* February 2025: [2025-02.md](./2025-02.md) -* January 2025: [2025-01.md](./2025-01.md) +* 2026 + * February: [2026-02.md](./2026-02.md) + * January: [2026-01.md](./2026-01.md) +* 2025 + * August 2025: [2025-08.md](./2025-08.md) + * June 2025: [2025-06.md](./2025-06.md) + * February 2025: [2025-02.md](./2025-02.md) + * January 2025: [2025-01.md](./2025-01.md) --- @@ -44,9 +48,32 @@ #### What did I do? -* - -#### What did I not do? +* 🤖 AI Futures Lab + * + * +* 🤝 BIDS Leadership & Operations + * + * +* ⚖️ CRELS + CSSTP + * + * +* 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Cultural Analytics + * + * +* 🪐 Jupyter + * + * +* 🩻 OPH + * + * +* ☀️ OSPO + * + * +* 🌳 Scientific Python + * + * +* 🌱 The Turing Way + * + * -* ```