# Training Steering Group September
**Date & Time:** 25/9 13:00-15:00
**Connection details:** https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/62955236256
**TrSG book:** https://hackmd.io/@elinkronander/TrSG/%2F5SYwXztaTpKrn95vDPh1jw

## Welcome 🙌🏽

## Code of Conduct reminder
Adopted from the [Recurse Rules](https://www.recurse.com/social-rules)
* Be respectful, honest, inclusive, accommodating, appreciative, and open to learning from everyone else.
* Do not attack, demean, disrupt, harass, or threaten others or encourage such behavior.
* Be patient, allow others to speak, and use the zoom reactions & chat if you would like to voice something.
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## :hourglass_flowing_sand: Agenda:

| Duration | Activity | Time |
| ----------- |:------------------------------------------------------------ |:----------- |
| 5 mins | Welcome and housekeeping | 13:00-13:05 |
| 15 mins | (information) NBIS TrC | 13:05-13:20 |
| 30 mins | (information) NBIS TrLs | 13:20-13:50
**10 mins** | **Break** | 13:50-14:00 |
| 15 mins | NBIS retreat | 14:00-14:20 |
| 20 mins | Intranet | 14:20-14:40 |
| 10 mins | AOB (any other business) | 14:40-14:50 |
| 10 mins | Wrap-up & communications | 14:50-15:00 |

## Links & Resources:

## Rollcall:
🗣 Name/🐸 pronouns/✍🏼 Team affiliation and Site
Elin/ she, her / Training and DM, Uppsala
Richel / he/him / NBIS, Uppsala
Gisele / she, her / BIIF, Stockholm
Louella/She/NBIS HaC, Lund
Anna /she, her/ CMB, Uppsala
Tomas / he/him / NBIS, Gbg
Lokesh / he/him /NBIS, Lund
Caroline /she, her/AIDA, Linköping

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## Information from NBIS TrC
* Support/Outreach/DM meeting outcome
* onboarding document will be moved to the intranet
* update information on time allocations for NBISers and estimates for courses
* outreach group will create outreach guidelines for course announcements
* Time reporting:
use the issue Task [#4727](https://projects.nbis.se/issues/4727) using the activity training
* Course email credentials
* will be managed using vidar.nbis.se
* NBIS retreat - discussion group
* sign up for the training discussion group
* TrC recruitment
* more information to be sent out this week

## Information from NBIS TrLs
How is onboarding going? Reflections from Train the trainer course?

| Team | Notes |
| -------- | -------- |
| AIDA | |
| BIIF | Onboarding meeting with all members to inform new colleagues and update the whole group
| Cell & molecular biology| One new, will be onboarded soon |
| Data Management | One new, will be onboarded soon. |
| EvoBio | One initial onboarding presentation together during last team meeting. Will have a short follow up soon. |
| Health and Clinical | 3 new starters (1 Lund, 2 KI), will have to onboard |
| Microbiology, Immunology and Structural Biology |One new person starting soon and will be scheduled for a meeting and onboarded, the second person will be onboarded after he starts (later in one or two months)|
| Systems development | |
| UPPMAX/Compute and Storage| No onboardings |

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## Break (10 mins)

## NBIS retreat presentation

* (4 mins, Richel) Richel will present the TrSg at the NBIS retreat. He could use our current ideas of what are the goal of the TrSG.
* maintain and update training documentation/handbook
* Be the point of contact for questions related to training
* engaging NBISers in training
* Link between NBIS teams and training coordinators - training liasons
* Advertise courses
* Help find TAs and teachers
* Make sure NBIS training is constantly up-to date and "evolving" and that courses are following a similar well thought-through structure.
* (Indirectly) assess and monitor quality of course
* We discuss all courses :-)
* Facilitate collaboration among NBIS's diverse training initiatives for support and inspiration.

## Intranet brainstorming

- ### Useful information to have (linked) on the intranet training page
* current year course calendar, dates, weblink, site
* FAQs, slack channel
* Move all documents to-be-reused on Google drive there; chop up text like a proper wiki
* List of Training Steering Group Coordinators
* List of Training Steering Group Liasons
* Link to Onboarding procedure
* Link to list of courses:
* For professional development, e.g. link to Train The Trainer course
* Taught in the past, to have an example
* NOT list of courses in the future (to prevent double information), do link to the NBIS/ELIXIR course schedule
* Courses
* Canvas instructions
* ELIXIR Training
* Link to TrSG meeting notes
* List or course leaders?
* Advisory program

## AOB

* (2 mins, Richel) The NBIS Python course (Monday Oct 9th to and including Friday Oct 13th) as coordinated by Dimitris Bampalikis could use some technical assistants

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## Wrap-up & Communications

* ### What to BRING BACK to your team?
* course leaders will be invited to vidar.nbis.se password manager for management of course email credentials
* The NBIS Python course is in need of TAs in Umeå and Uppsala, see https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oSJxFZ2WEo32rlaBOYynl9TuckAP9Wtb0Xz3-Dww5cU/edit#gid=0 when/where you are needed

* ### What to CATCH from your team?
*

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## Next meeting:
October 16 13:00-15:00