# Meeting 27 September 2021

## Actions
- [ ] **Lucia and Mario** : to look at using OWL camera for one of these meetings as a demonstration. Suggest October.
- [ ] **Mario and any others**: If you teach the updated Git lesson with SSH, bring your feedback to this group next month.

## About

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

**Regular calls: 4th Monday of the month, 16:00-17:00 UK time**

**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**

## Meeting Minutes
**Time:** 16:00 (BST)

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

**Chair:** Mario Antonioletti

**Timekeeper:** David

**Notetaker:** Phil

### Agenda

0. Sign in & ice-breaker
1. Assign notetaker & timekeeper
2. Announcements - please add your own
- [SSI Fellowship 2022 Call](https://www.software.ac.uk/news/ssi-fellowship-programme-2022)
- [SSI Research Software Camps](https://software.ac.uk/research-software-camps)
- The next [Research Software Camp: Beyond the Spreadsheet](https://software.ac.uk/RSCamp-beyond-spreadsheet) will take place from 1 to 12 November 2021
- [Call for content proposals is currently open](https://www.software.ac.uk/news/call-content-proposals-research-software-camp-beyond-spreadsheet-0)
4. Actions from last time
5. Round robin
- what questions or issues do you have?
6. [Chairing rota](https://hackmd.io/3yKzVlo5SMWOEzO40sz_Tw)
7. Guest speaker: Alison Meynert [e-mail]

### Sign-in

Write your name and what good ice-breakers have you come across?

1. Mario Antonioletti, favourite something, e.g. animal, and why?
2. Phil Reed, favourite bass line/riff
3. Jonathan Stoneman, No single icebreaker, but I am loving a book called ["The Discussion Book"][discussion-book] which contains 50 ways of running meetings/seminars/trainings and some ice breakers
4. Jannetta Steyn
5. Sarah Jaffa, the most successful ice-breaker I've been part of was the [remotely green](https://remotely.green/) platform used at Collaborations Workshop earlier this year.
6. Ed Bennett, [Botnika](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Icebreaker_Botnica_13_March_2007.jpg)
7. David Pérez-Suárez, favourite smell (petrol station, anyone?)
8. Graham Blyth, best so far was - bring/show an obscure object that is an important part of your "other" life
9. Alison Meynert, guilty pleasure TV
10. Colin Sauze
11. Jez Cope

### Notes

#### Round robin
[please add your own corrections/additions!]
- Mario: In-person Git session last week.
- Phil: Data Carpentry, mix with SWC and LC instructors.
- Alison: Helper on incubator lessons and R Genomics.
- Jonathan: Library Carpentry and R.
- Jannetta: Carpentry Con South Africa.
- Graham: Helped in Edinburgh. LC and DC OpenRefine/Excel.
- Sarah: Running through on website, will be organising SWC.
- David: Carpentries translations and more.
- Colin: Wales, HPC, machine learning. SC and DC upcoming. Could do with finding somebody who can help teach R ecology lesson.
- Jez: LC and more.
- Ed: Swansea, SWC and DC upcoming.

#### Actions from last meeting:
- Owl: carry forward
- Teaching Git with SSH: carry forward (David to do it next Wednesday)

#### Announcement: [SSI Fellowship 2022 Call](https://www.software.ac.uk/news/ssi-fellowship-programme-2022)
Fellowship programme launched every year. Get £3,000 funding and significant networking opportunity. David shared his experiences of it (very positive). Jez too (having been awarded a competitive fellowship is rewarded and recognised by senior management). Diverse network, growing numbers of librarians.

Need pre approval to spend money, need to write blog posts after.

#### Announcement: [SSI Research Software Camps](https://software.ac.uk/research-software-camps)
The next Research Software Camp: Beyond the Spreadsheet will take place from 1 to 12 November 2021.
Call for content proposals is [currently open](https://www.software.ac.uk/news/call-content-proposals-research-software-camp-beyond-spreadsheet-0).

#### Guest speaker: Alison Meynert (Edinburgh)

PI on [Ed-DaSH](https://edcarp.github.io/Ed-DaSH/), built materials using Carpentries paradigm. School of Biological Sciences, School of Mathematics, College of Medicine and Vetinary Medicine. MRC Human Genetics Unit. Edinburgh Carpentries.

Work reproducibly.
UKRI funding call - Innovation Scholars: Data Science Training in Health and Bioscience.

Ed-DaSH funded £375k, includes (half) Edinburgh Carpentries membership.
Training in:

1. computational workflows (unix, conda, nextflow/snakemake)
2. open science, FAIR principles and data management
3. statistics (most important thing)

IGMM (IGC) statistical seminar series (once a week). Really popular. Shows a big missing training need.

Carpentries is an ideal fit for most content. Some other things might still use Carpentries ideas.

In alpha/beta stage of lesson development cycle. Developers will deliver first training to students, then switch to other instructors. Probably will never be an official Carpentries workshop but could still be strong part of incubator series.

Feb-Oct 2021 development. Sep/Oct 2021 onwards delivery.

Twitter account launched today https://twitter.com/EdDaSH_Training.

Questions:

1. Graham: great to see data exploration in there, cf stats. Is material available? Answer: In the incubator.
2. Mario: Is your refundable £50 booking fee working? Answer: We are tracking for the first year. Only need 50% attendance, some parts optional. Sessions are mandatory for 10 PhD students, there are 10 further spots. 75% attendance seen as good, especially for free and virtual workshops.
3. Jannetta: How does Edinburgh Carpentries fit in, what do they do? Answer: EdinCarp is a local group with steering committee, fairly informal organisation, with Slack server. Can organise workshops when there is enough demand. Hosting Git repo. Mailing list. Not just University of Edinburgh. An umbrella for Alison's work. Paying one instructor and two helpers for each workshop, and PI. Targeting underrepresented groups first, accessible. Small fund for adaptive equiment (forfeited deposits go in here). Gathering enough data to approach other funding calls, would like to create more material. Incentive for helpers to become instructors, take their new skills back to their home institutions.

### Actions
1. Lucia and Mario: feed back on teaching with OWL camera.
2. David and Sarah: feed back on teaching Git with SSH.
3. ALL: Look at [Carpentries Incubator](https://carpentries.org/community-lessons/), see what is there, feed back on these.
4. ALL: Share the SSI fellowship call with relevant colleagues.

[discussion-book]: https://www.worldcat.org/title/discussion-book-fifty-great-ways-to-get-people-talking/oclc/990817212&referer=brief_results