Hello all,
We will be having our first meeting on November 30th at 12:30 Pacific. We apologize if you cannot make this first meeting and in the future will make every effort to find a meeting schedule that works for everyone interested. We wanted to have a meeting soon and the holidays and end of semester workloads really limited availability.
We will be using Zoom for the meeting. More information to come.
Topics will include:
Meet and Greet
Discuss Member Interests and Hopes for the Group
Discuss Topics for Future Meetings
Discuss Standard Meeting Times
I'd really like to take the opportunity to thank everyone that has reached out both online and offline, it's really nice to get such positive feedback.
We hope to meet you soon!
Erica T
Thank you for the invite and for organizing, ericatamburo ! I would love to join, but the proposed time it is already Friday evening in Europe, which is really not my best time of the week and which I have booked for time with my partner.
So, for future meeting times, I would humbly ask for three hours earlier and/or a different weekday.
To still contribute to the meeting, here are some topics for future meetings that pop up in my mind, based on recent discussions in this community:
- how to get researchers to move from their preferred but not-so-suitable software to something new but suitable? It was a small part of the Any historians around? thread. There it was about moving from spreadsheets to relational databases, but the discussion could be about moving from one tool to FMP.
- how does academic use of FMP/RDMS differ from use in other setting? Different data-quality demands for example.
- how to deal with that in FMP? Small question, big answers probably
- if FMP can not deal well with something, which feature requests would we opt for?
- discipline-specific topics, depending on disciplines represented in the meeting
- how to get researchers to make budget available in their project applications/planning for development - perhaps not a topic in all disciplines? How to help them with such budgeting? How does FMP stand out, compared to alternatives in this respect? See for example What Organizations use FileMaker for Research? about FMP's availability.
cheers
Frank