On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 07:21:09PM +0100, Karin Lagesen wrote: > I find myself in the position of being a work package leader for a EU > project. I don't know any of the ones that will work with me in this > work package, and they all work at different institutions all over > Europe. To boot, I have never managed a EU work package before. > > Thus, I am looking for tips, links, books, whatever you might know of > that might help me forge these people into an actual team that gets > stuff done. I know there are a lot of researchers and others on this > list that might have been in the same situation as me, which is why I > thought asking via this list might garner some good results.
Hi Karin, loving the responses, which mostly gel with my experience - I'm helping coordinate the #CommonsPilot, which is doing a lot of what people suggest in the other responses! (Google Docs, GitHub, etc.) ---- One completely invaluable tool & site is groups.io, which provides a mailing list platform that has calendaring and other features. I've been using it for about a year now, and the main unique value for me is the subgroups feature; e.g. https://isal.groups.io/g/main has multiple subgroups, https://isal.groups.io/g/main/subgroups that contain various subsets of the 'main' list (which is not actually used at all - we only use the subgroups). This gives *one* subscription point for multiple related mailing lists and it is surprisingly awesome. I can elaborate here or elsewhere if there is interest in how this works. It's more than a little confusing at first ;). groups.io is free unless you want to do direct adds of e-mail addresses rather than merely inviting subscribers -- then it's $10/month. There is also a one-time $10/1 month "mailing list transfer" option that I've used a few times. I can also say that moderation of groups.io lists is a joy compared to both mailman and google groups - can be done completely by e-mail, with no complicated commands. We are starting to use calendaring now too, because it has a somewhat more flexible permissions model than google calendar. ---- Slack has also been a surprising success for us; people really like it, as far as I can tell. We did some asking and found that people also really like Zoom for teleconf, but I'm still figuring out the right subscription plan for that. (It's probably not complicated, I just need to dig into it.) ---- I would also suggest having a code of conduct and putting together phone call guidelines. The Carpentry community does a great job of all of this as I know you know, but this kind of org is generally missing from my academic calls. ---- I also want to point people towards Max Ogden's "async-team" writeup, which is somewhat mindblowing: https://github.com/maxogden/async-team We do some of this in my lab but the Dat folk have a lot of good experience to offer! best, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, ctbr...@ucdavis.edu _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
