Session #1 - Logistics

Overall Logistics

1. Bookmark the Working Group’s landing page. All key info centralized there.

2. Join our Working Group’s Slack channel by:
1. Joining the AISC Slack
2. Go to ‘channels’ → ‘add channels’ → join ‘wg-ml-in-freshwater-management’.
3. Main source of announcements & collaboration.

3. Recommended virtual environment - Google Colab.
1. Google Colab is essentially a Google Cloud hosted Juypter notebook.
2. Synchronizes everyone’s environments for easier collaborative bug fixing.
3. Gives free GPU access.
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Google Colab - How to use it

4. Weekly meetings
1. Meetings weekly at 6 pm, Wednesday
2. Meeting joining link: https://meet.jit.si/Zhaoqin-MLforwaterlevel-group
3. If miss a meeting, check under ‘Our Journey’ on landing page + Slack to keep up.

5. Gift distribution
1. The first 3 people / groups crossing the minimal goal will be given a CAD$500 gift.
2. All those reaching after will have $1000 equally divided amongst them.
3. For the $500 gift - it will be equally divided among teammates.
4. The lead may adapt division of gifts based on how the group progresses.

Expectations

1. Guide overall project direction.

2. Host a Q/A in the weekly meets.

3. May NOT know everything.

4. But will help source expertise from self / group / community to deal with project bottlenecks. (as people or Recipes)

5. Can reach on the AISC Slack. (Joining details mentioned above)

1. Reach minimal goal by the end of 8-10 weeks.

2. Can do so alone or in teams - form them on your own.
1. We’ve seen 3 works best - but you can have as large or small a team you like]

3. You can form teams now or during the middle of the project.

4. Camera mostly on during weekly meetings

5. In the spirit of open source, you are encouraged & expected to share the resources you’re using to solve the project problems with the rest of the teams (as Recipes). Additional gifts for that. More details on that soon.