# Meeting - 25 September 2023

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## Meeting Info

This is the UK Carpentry Community space for the UK Carpentry instructors, helpers and workshop coordinators (or anyone involved in training tech to researchers in general and outside of the UK) to get to know each other better, update the commmunity about developments, discuss issues and ideas, and encourage collaboration.

During these meetings, we will be conforming to [The Carpentries Code of Conduct](https://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/policies/code-of-conduct.html).

**Meeting schedule: meetings happen on 4th Monday each month, 16:00-17:00 UK time, BST (UTC+1) or GMT (UTC+0) depending on the time of the year**

**Meeting details are shared via [local-uk mailing list](https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/local-uk) and [The Carpentries community calendar](https://carpentries.org/community/#community-events).**

- [Community's HackMD workspace](https://hackmd.io/team/local-uk?nav=overview)
- [Previous & upcoming meetings](https://hackmd.io/V3ReKkEESzqyCNxWJdulOw#Meeting-Notes)
- [Meeting notes template](https://hackmd.io/hgl1tYhOTTqDsIDwjArE5w)
- [Chairing rota](https://hackmd.io/@local-uk/rkPK1Si7F)
- [Guest speaker sign-up](https://hackmd.io/@local-uk/rkkzBTLOd)

**Zoom URL:** https://zoom.us/j/95360073649

## Meeting Minutes

- **Chair:** Mario Antonioletti
- **Timekeeper:**
- **Notetaker:** Andrew Walker

### Agenda
0. Assign notetaker & timekeeper
1. Sign in & ice-breaker
1. Review of actions
2. Announcements
3. Guest speaker + Q&A
4. Instructor Training checkout questions
5. Wrap-up/AOB

### Sign-in

Name/pronoun if you like/ institution / optionally put "(checkout)" if you are here for the Instructor Training checkout:

1. Mario Antonioletti, he/him, EPCC/SSI University of Edinburgh
2. Colin Sauze, he/him, National Oceanography Centre
3. Juan Herrera; he/him; EPCC, The University of Edinburgh
4. Andrew Walker, he/him, University of Oxford
5. Danielle Sieh, she/her, The Carpentries
6. Eli Chadwick, he/they, The Carpentries

### Notes

No actions from previous meetings.

Announcements

Danielle: Getting ready for elections as the capentries moves from sponsored to independent orginisation - 4 seats for community on the new board will open for nominations tomorrow. They will be open globally.

Colin: Carpentries Confessions happened at RSECon. A blog post has been drafted.

Juan: Looking to run a data capentries workshop somewhere for ARCHER2.

Mario: we're looking for some people to share charing. Action on Mario to find people.