Lab Schedule

The lab generally operates year-round. However, no meetings are scheduled for days that are treated as “holidays” by FIU. These are:

  • New Year’s Day
  • MLK Jr. Day
  • Memorial Day
  • Fourth of July
  • Labor Day
  • Veterans Day
  • Thanksgiving (Thursday and Friday)
  • Winter Break (just before Christmas through New Year’s Eve)

Lab Calendar

The lab maintains a shared Google calendar called “NDCLab Shared”, to which lab members are granted access during formal onboarding. This calendar provide a broad view into ongoing lab activities. During onboarding, you will receive a message granting you access; click “Add this calendar” to add the shared calendar to your own calendar so you can see all lab activities. You can then toggle the view on/off as you desire.

ndclab-calendar

Note that information about other lab calendars can be found on the Calendaring page in the Etiquette section.

Bi-Weekly Lab Meeting

A 1-1.5 hour lab meeting is held every two weeks. All lab members are encouraged to attend, but attendance is not mandatory for junior members.

  • Agendas are posted the week prior on GitHub.
  • The lab manager messages on the Slack #general channel, starting with: Lab Meeting | yyyy-mm-dd; this post includes a link to the GitHub agenda.
  • Following the meeting, the lab manager adds meeting notes (and, if the meeting was recorded, a link to the recording) on the same thread.
  • The lab manager’s posts for the most recent lab meeting and the next upcoming meeting are always pinned to the #general channel in Slack.
  • Older posts can be found by searching within Slack: 
    lab meeting in:#general

Other Meetings

The lab director, lab manager, lab technician, and project leads may schedule activities on the lab calendar. Only required attendees should receive individual invites to such meetings, so that they also appear on the individual’s personal calendar. However, since all lab members have access to the calendar, they can see the existence of any upcoming meeting and request to join in, if so desired.