Hi all,
On Wednesdays that are not Reclone community meetings, a coordination meeting powered by volunteers is held to plan for reclone meetings and other events / activities. I will be posting minutes from those meetings in this thread. Please email Deborah if you’ll like to be part of that.
We welcome all the help we can get!
General notes in May 2021
Plans for Reclone Symposium (July)
Theme = ADVOCACY
Prospective speakers:
Martha Fernandez - Head of Innovation at Find
Brief by “Doctors without Borders”
Info scientists need
How to advocate
Gain influence with local govt
Bridge gap between science and govt
Provide contact info of / link interested community members with people (scientists) who have had success connecting with govt
Talk from contact person at Gates foundation program in India
Talks from program officers of funding calls from govt in Columbia, Chile, Peru etc that Reclone members have successfully obtained.
Email past volunteers to revive team
Post message on forum to recruit more volunteers
Post notes from coordination meeting (a single running google sheet) to forum
Apply for dispensation towards Reclone website upgrade due to challenges in getting relevant quotes from developers contacted. Send CEB dept admin a note explaining reason for dispensation request and attach relevant email thread with developers.
In reclone meetings, encourage new members to speak up and introduce themselves
Expand Reclone publicity to other mailing lists with themes including
CEB
Synthetic Bio
Proteins
Molecular bio
Biochemi society
Diagnostics
Global Health
Tech Innovation (include members beyond biotech industry)
Email Reclone Community to source relevant mailing lists
Connect with prog managers and/ or social media personnel of the following:
Global innovation gathering https://www.globalinnovationgathering.org/
Capacity for Bioscience in Africa
Register Reclone on bobab.org/projects; email Nick? to ask if they can help publicize reclone activities
Synbioafrica.com ; also check twitter for relevant groups
Send blurb about Reclone with twitter banner asking people to the next event
Attending Deborah, Jenny, Kathrin
Plans for community meeting in June:
June 9 - open community forum
General discussion about symposium (tentatively July 21)
Why advocacy
Impact of technology on peoples’ lives
Ease bottlenecks
Jenny to try and connect with Africa CDC
Start google doc with details of symposium plans
June 23 -
Speaker - Christian from https://hammer-forum.de/start/
Q and A session about implementing LAMP in a medical context. Implications, Benefits and objections to consider as well.
Get community members to send in questions as much as possible in advance of talk to help his preparation too.
Other action points
Jenny to show how to install plugins for, YouTube feed on the website(?) something like this (youtube) and this (Twitter).
Set aside on community meeting in 2-3 month for a follow up RPA meeting
Give Kathrin access to Reclone twitter and Youtube channel