UJ Team: resources, onboarding
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See also (and integrate): Jordan's
The main platforms for the management team are outlined below with links provided.
Please ask for group access, as well as access to private channels, especially "management-policies". Each channel should have a description and some links at the top.
Please ask for an invitation. is an interactive online relational database. Only our management team and selected others
Each of the 'tables' in the Airtable is explained in the first ('readme') table...
See Tech scoping
Management team: You don't need to edit the GitBook if you don't want to, but we're trying to use it as our main place to 'explain everything' to ourselves and others. We will try to link all content here. Note you can use 'search' and 'lens' to look for things.
Access to the PubPub is mainly only needed for doing 'full-service evaluation manager work'.
Please ask for access to this drive. This drive contains meeting notes, discussion, grant applications and tech details.
This is for submitting invoices for your work.
The main platforms needed for the advisory board are outlined below with links provided.
Members of the advisory board can join our Slack (if they want). They can have access to private channels (subject to ) other than the 'management-policies' channel
Advisory board members can be given access to our Airtable, but subject to . Before adding an advisory board member to the Airtable, please move any content related to their own research, their evaluation work, their job application status, etc.
Short of full Airtable access, AB members they may also be given specific access to 'survey links' and key views.
This is for submitting invoices for your work.
In addition to the management team platforms explained above, additional information for how to use the platforms specifically for managing evaluations is outlined below.
This should be used for payments for evaluators. Please see the link below for how to do this.
Status, expenses, and payments
Airtable: Get to know it's features, it's super-useful. E.g., 'views' provide different pictures of the same information. 'Link' field types connect different tables by their primary keys, allowing information and calculations to flow back and forth.
Airtable table descriptions: as well as by hovering over the '(i)' symbol for each tab. Many of the columns in each tab also have descriptions.
Additional Airtable security: We also keep more sensitive in this AIrtable encrypted, or moved to a different table that only David Reinstein has access to.
Use discretion in sharing: advisory board members might be authors, evaluators, job candidates, or parts of external organizations we may partner with
Read: (Google Doc: internal access only) for a concise understanding of what you need to know and use most. Feel free to ask sidebar questions.
Watch: (Dropbox: internal access only)
To use Airtable for evaluation management please see this . The section is titled "Managing evaluations of research". To find this in the google drive, it is under "forms_templates_tips_guidelines_for_management".
For details on our current PubPub process please see this . To find this in the google drive, it is under "hosting and tech".