# Meeting 23 May 2022

## About

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 meetings: https://hackmd.io/V3ReKkEESzqyCNxWJdulOw#Meetings**

**Chairing rota: https://hackmd.io/@local-uk/rkPK1Si7F**

**Guest speaker sign up: https://hackmd.io/@local-uk/rkkzBTLOd**

## Meeting Minutes
**Time:** 16:00 - 17:00 BST (GMT + 1)

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

**Chair:** Mario Antonioletti

**Timekeeper:** none

**Notetaker:** Fran Baseby

### Agenda
0. Assign notetaker & timekeeper
1. Sign in & ice-breaker
1. Review of actions
2. Announcements
3. Guest speaker (Matt Blutteau) + 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, SSI/EPCC/University of Edinburgh
2. Juan Herrera, he/him, EPCC at UoE
3. Fran Baseby, she/her, University of Edinburgh
4. Alison Clarke, Durham University
5. Graham Blyth, University of Leeds
6. Ed Bennett, Swansea University
7. Olexandr Konovalov, University of St Andrews
8. Matthew Bluteau, he/him, UKAEA, :bird: @mattasdata :octopus: @bielsnohr
9. David Pérez-Suárez, he/him, UCL, 🐙🐱@dpshelio 🐦@dvdgc13 🐘@[e-mail]
10. Winfred Gatua, she/her, University of Bristol
11. Lucia Michielin, she/her, CDCS University of Edinburgh

### Notes
Matthew Bluteau presentation to be rescheduled in next meet up. https://bielsnohr.github.io/2022/04/25/review-intermediate-course.html

Juan introduced the ARCHER2 training (see below). Looking for potential locations UK wide. Contact Juan to discuss about collaborating.

Alison - submitted a course to incubator, DC R course for ecology but adapted for archaeologists. https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/R-archaeology-lesson

Mario: SSI Research Software Camps including mentorships and Software Surgeries. Mentoring has been v successful but surgeries not well attended.
Matthew: ran similar surgeries and found attendance was inconsistent.
Ed: similar experience at Code Clinics at Swansea. No take-up online.

David: community discussion on Friday 27 May, on non-English courses. 1-2pm, Carpentries Room 2 https://carpentries.zoom.us/my/carpentriesroom2

David: Carpentries are changing their templates to use Sandpaper etc, will be required to build lessons in R, simplify styles.

#### ARCHER2 SWC/DC workshops

We plan to deliver the following workshops:
- DC (July).
- SWC (Aug-Oct).
- DC (Nov-Jan).
- SWC (Feb-Mar).

We're interested in collaborating with several institutions around the UK. We handle registrations and instructors. We're looking for venues to deliver the workshops listed above. The workshop can be delivered online if needed. If you're interested in hosting a workshop, please contact [me](https://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/dr-juan-rodriguez-herrera).