add news

_config.yml

@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ callouts:
   objective:
     title: Learning objective
     color: blue
+  news:
+    title: 🎉 News
+    color: blue
   resource:
     title: 🌐 Connected resources
     color: blue
@@ -57,6 +60,11 @@ collections:
     output: true
     permalink: /docs/10-lab/18-resources/:name.html
 
+  news:
+    sort_by: date
+    output: true
+    permalink: /docs/10-lab/:name.html
+
   courses:
     output: true
     sort_by: semester

_news/2024-12-11-end-of-year-report-2024.md

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+---
+layout: default
+title: "End-of-year Report 2024"
+parent: Lab Management
+date: 2024-12-11
+---
+
+## Review: 2024
+
+**Lab management**: [handbook](https://digital-work-lab.github.io/handbook/)
+- Handbook development: 80 pages and 1,900 commits
+- Recent items: Goals and cadence, calendar, Git repositories, research and teaching statements
+
+**Research**: [portfolio](https://digital-work-lab.github.io/handbook/docs/20-research/25-projects-gantt) and [publications](https://digital-work-lab.github.io/handbook/docs/20-research/29-publications.html)
+- BibDedupe, HealthCareAI, AICompetenceMed (Montréal studies) published
+- Promising papers in 2nd-round revisions: Three A-Journal papers + The Lancet Digital Health
+- CoLRev development continues
+- Funding (DFG, SFB) in progress
+
+**Teaching**: [courses](https://digital-work-lab.github.io/handbook/docs/30-teaching/32_courses/) and  [theses](https://digital-work-lab.github.io/theses/docs/completed.html)
+- Good student participation and evaluation results, 30 theses (total)
+- Teaching repositories mature (OSP, LRSem, IDW)
+- Teaching notes: GitIntro accepted, currently working on GitCollaboration, TeaPad, EduRes 
+- 🏆 Chosen-Chair Award
+
+---
+
+## Hands-on: SOP Update
+
+**Objective:** Revise the Standard Operating Procedures ([SOP](https://digital-work-lab.github.io/handbook/docs/10-lab/10_processes/10.04.sop.html)) to better align with our team's needs and goals.
+
+1. Take notes on challenges, best practices and ideas on *how we work*
+2. Read the current [SOP](https://digital-work-lab.github.io/handbook/docs/10-lab/10_processes/10.04.sop.html) 
+3. Discuss how we should organize them, complement, remove, or adapt current items.
+
+**Outcome**: Revisions of the SOP.
+
+---
+
+## Outlook
+
+**Lab management**
+- Strategic roadmap for our "system" (open for suggestions):
+	- Shared knowledge management (see [literature](https://digital-work-lab.github.io/handbook/docs/20-research/22-literature.html))
+	- Thesis process (see [thesis-confidential](https://github.com/digital-work-lab/theses-confidential))
+	- Skill development (TBD)
+	- Labot
+- New position (Bachelor/Master)
+
+**Research**
+- Publication of 3 A-journal papers
+- Papers in the three streams: digital work practices, distributed organizing, knowledge synthesis
+- SearchQuery thesis program (target: JOSS), Laureen's thesis on academic lab handbooks
+
+**Teaching**
+- Develop IDW, improve OSP, offer LRSem via IDIS

index.md

@@ -11,6 +11,15 @@ permalink: /
 Our handbook is a public and participatory initiative to facilitate our research activities, and consistently deliver high-quality service to students.
 It is an integral part of our [culture](docs/00.goals.html) of impact, rigor, openness, participation, and learning.
 
+{: .news }
+{% for news in site.news %}
+> - [{{ news.title }}]({{ news.url }})
+{% endfor %}
+
+{% for item in site.news %}
+{{ item | inspect }}
+{% endfor %}
+
 ## Structure
 
 To organize procedures, documents and files, the handbook consists of the following sections, each with unique numbers: