# Information session

###### tags: `events` `mentorship programme` `research software camps`

Wednesday 19th April 2023, 12 pm BST.
Online, via Zoom

## Table of contents
1. [Agenda](#Agenda)
2. [Useful resources](#Useful-resources)
3. [Roll call](#Roll-call)
4. [Feedback from break-out groups](#feedback-from-breakout-rooms)
5. [Questions](#Questions)

## Agenda

12:00 Welcome
12:02 Practicalities
12:05 About the SSI and the Research Software Camps
12:20 Framework and Infrastructure
12:40 Q&A
12:50 Challenges discussion in break out room
12:55 Feedback from groups
13:00 Close

## Useful resources

* This document: https://hackmd.io/@RSC5Mentorship/Info_session/edit
* The [slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AKwY2RWSa5SveOzGgNudJ7JDjxtx_HHelsaCy7ViW_s/edit?usp=sharing) for this session
* [Guide to HackMD](https://hackmd.io/@RSC5Mentorship/Guide_HackMD/edit)
* [Download Zoom](https://zoom.us/download)
* Slack channel
* You should've already received a link to sign into the space.
* [Slack Guide ](https://hackmd.io/@RSC5Mentorship/Guide_Slack)
* [Code of conduct](https://www.software.ac.uk/code-conduct-research-software-camps)

## Roll call
1. Name / Role (if available) / Organisation / Location
2. Example: Selina Aragon / SSI communications lead / University of Edinburgh / Scotland, UK
3. Saranjeet Kaur / SSI Fellow 2023 / Research Software Alliance , SSI / India
4. Ignatius Ezeani/ Research Associate/ Lancaster University/ Lancaster, UK
5. Mihir Athavale/ PhD student/ The University of Manchester/ Manchester, UK
6. Mario Antonioetti, mentor, EPCC/SSI University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
7. Julian Lenz / Mentor / Swansea University / Swansea
8. Gaurav Bhalerao/ Postdoc/ University of Oxford/ UK
9. Georgia Aitkenhead / The Alan Turing Institute / London
10. Georgina Pegu/Mentee/SSI staff/University of Edinburgh/Scotland, UK
11. Josh Ashley / Mentee / University of Manchester /
12. Shinjini Chakraborty/ Postdoc at University of York/ York, UK
13. Paul McCarthy / University of Oxford / North Wales (UK)
14. Olexandr Konovalov / Mentor, Lecturer / University of St Andrews / Scotland, UK
15. Nicole Lubasinski / Mentee/ University of Manchester
16. Antonia Feilden / Mentee / PhD Student / University of York / England, UK
17. Caroline Harbison / Mentee / University of Oxford/ Oxford, UK
18. Nomalungelo Maphanga/Project Manager & Data Science mentor / Talarify / Pretoria, South Africa
19. Guanyu Zou /PhD Student / University of Manchester / Manchester,UK
20. Qian Fu / Research Fellow / University of Birmingham / Birmingham, UK
21. James Azam/ Research Software Engineer / London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine / London, UK
22. Ziyi Wang/ PhD student/ Durham University/ Durham, UK
23. Shern Tee / Postdoc / University of Queensland / Brisbane, Australia
24. Peter Hill / Mentor / University of York
25. Lucy Jobbins / Mentee /
26. Gavin Ward / Mentee / UKHSA / York, UK
27. Qiangrui Dong / Mentee/ phd student/ Delft university of technology/Delft, Netherlands
28. Zhibo Li /Mentor/PhD student / University of Edinburgh
28. Sara Patti/ PhD student / Imperial College London
29. Manuel Lera Ramirez / mentor / UCL
30. Bernard Kwame Solodzi/ Mentee/ University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho
### Apologies:
1. Michael Tso / UKCEH / Lancaster
2. Annajiat Alim Rasel / Mentor / School of Data and Sciences, Brac University, Bangladesh

## Feedback from breakout rooms
* Group 1:
* Group 2:Ignatius, Sebastien, Ziyi, Josh, Manu(might be missing a 5th person but room closed)
* Challenges:
* Finding the time
* Mismatch between the expertise of the mentor vs. the mentee needs.
* Fuzzy goals for the program
* Group 3:
* Group 4:
* Group 5:

## Questions
If you have any questions **outside of the call**, please write them below and we will answer them afterwards:
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2. Example: About the SSI / when was the SSI founded?
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We will be answering questions during the call. This space is for people watching the recording or if you can think of other questions after the session.