11  Group Communication

11.1 Slack

Our group communication is mainly in the #data-science channel of the CALS CCT Slack. We communicate with the wider UA data science community in the UA Data Science Slack, in particular the #trainers channel.

Other Slacks to consider joining:

• resbaz_AZ (invite needed)
• USRSE

11.2 Email

Please use your UA email address (@arizona.edu) address for communication. This helps to communicate our UA affiliation. More importantly, you are advised not to combine work and personal email because this will make your personal email open to FOIA requests, in which case your personal email communication could become part of the public domain.

You can generate an official UA signature here: https://brand.arizona.edu/generator/email-signature.

If you’d like to use gmail as your inbox instead of Outlook, see instructions here.

See also Communications & Outreach.

11.3 G Suite

We use the G Suite Applications for business extensively, in particular for Google Drive and Calendar.

Log into drive.google.com with your @arizona.edu address. If that doesn’t work, follow these steps to get access:

To get access to Google Apps at UA (see documentation)

• Log in at account.arizona.edu/welcome
• Select Manage Your Accounts.
• Choose UA Google Apps for Education.

Then sign in to drive.google.com with your @email.arizona.edu address.

If you encounter any errors, contact IT 24/7 support at it.arizona.edu

11.3.1 Google Drive

We should ideally create any new documents in the shared CALS-CCT drive. However, you will find many of our documents in an older shared folder called 02-Group Documents which we have not fully migrated over to the new shared drive.

11.3.2 Calendar

We will use the UA Google Calendar to share each other’s availability and schedule meetings. Please keep your calendar up to date, and either share free/busy time with specific people in the group or everyone at UA.