Glossary

We have an ever-changing terminology in this lab. Refer to this glossary if you have any questions.

• "All-hands"
  • Everyone should attend.
  • Formerly "All attend"

• "All list"
  • Group-wide mailing list

• "The Calendar" - this may mean:
  • info.gersteinlab.org/Calendar
  • "GLCAL - Lab Events Curated by Lab Members" Google calendar

• "The Dropbox" - this may mean:
  • the Gersteinlab-meeting-sync Dropbox share, which is the day's temporary repository
  • meetings.gersteinlab.org, which is the ultimate destination of files in the Gersteinlab-meeting-sync Dropbox share
  • the labdropbox Google drive, which is the mirror of meetings. This is mainly for MG's use.

• "The Github"
  • github.com/gersteinlab

• "Group Meeting"
  • Presentation of lab member or lab group research or topic of interest. Typically weekly. Everyone should attend.
  • Historically, this was the P1 meeting but has become its own meeting.

• "GW"
  • another word for gw.gersteinlab.org

• "I days"
  • Stands for Interactive days. You should physically hang around in the lab.

• "Journal Club"
  • Presentation of a paper. Typically weekly.

• "Lab folder"
  • The google folder https://bit.ly/mglab-folder including many of the lab-wise important documents.

• "Meetings"
  • another word for meetings.gersteinlab.org

• "Minutes"
  • This could mean the P1 Minutes google doc http://bit.ly/mglab-p1minutes, or the corresponding gdoc for sub-group meetings.
  • There will be a weekly email thread "*MINUTES* Dates" to record P1 notes.
  • There might be a seperated email with "*MINUTES*" in the email title, for notes of small sub-group meetings or individual meetings.

• "P1"
  • The weekly meeting about the week's meetings. The "meta meeting." Everyone should attend.
  • See "Sprint".

• "P2"
  • These are subgroup meetings.

• "Publicize it"
  • Put the files in files.gersteinlab.org/public-docs/
  • Instructions on how to do this are in wiki.gersteinlab.org/labinfo/Public-docs

• "Scratch"
  • This is referring to the google doc http://bit.ly/mglab-scratch2 for random quick note taking during some meetings.
  • This should be emptied immediately after the meetings ends.

• "Slack"
  • Our Slack group. gerstein-lab.slack.com/

• "Sprint"
  • The new name of P1.
  • The weekly meeting about the week's meetings. The "meta meeting." Everyone should attend.

• "WWW"
  • another word for www.gersteinlab.org

• "You're doing great"
  • transl. "You didn't get what I was saying."