CodeRefinery Spring 2025 workshop planning

Links and stuff

• This planning doc: https://hackmd.io/@coderefinery/Spring25_CR_planning
• Workshop page: https://coderefinery.github.io/2025-03-25-workshop/
• Registration page: https://indico.neic.no/e/coderefinery-march-2025
• Q&A doc: https://notes.coderefinery.org/workshop-2025-march (to be updated)

Decisions

• No major updates to materials/timing for Spring workshop, unless someone desperately wants to
• 2 Installation sessions, one week before and one on monday before workshop
  • Wed Mar 19th 13 CET - 14.30 CET
  • Mon March 24th 13.30 CET - 15 CET
• Addition of shell crashcourse together with installation session the week before workshop (Aalto RSE handles)
• Collect all participant registrations via Indico, send in-person info to participants from areas where in-person is offered
• Instructor scouting via survey
• OpenHouse in March for lesson updates and other co-working

To do

• Notes helper onboarding, SW to send e-mail
• Fill last instructor slots
• Support Co-instructor chats

Days and instructors

JR: Jarno Rantaharju
RD: Richard Darst
DI: Diana Iusan
RB: Radovan Bast
JH: Johan Hellsvik
TP: Thomas Pfau
SW: Samantha Wittke
EG: Enrico Glerean
MM: Michele Mesiti (new, and only if you want :) )
BL: Bjørn Lindi
DP: Dhanya Pushpadas
GD: Gregor Decristoforo

• Day 1
  • Introduction to Version Control with Git
    • AM: GD, DI
    • PM: GD, DI
• Day 2
  • Introduction to Version Control with Git
    • AM: RD, DI
    • PM: RD, DI
• Day 3
  • Collaborative and distributed version control
    • AM: RB, DP
    • PM: RB, DP
• Day 4 (Almost decided)
  • Reproducibility (AM): EG, SW
  • Social Coding and Open Software (PM): EG, JR
• Day 5
  • How to document your research software (AM): MM, JH
    • JH will teach intro and readme (MM pitches in questions and comments)
    • MM will teach Sphinx (JH pitches in questions and comments)
  • Jupyter (PM): JR, MM
• Day 6
  • Automated testing (AM): JH, TP
    • JH motivation
    • TP testing locally, automated testing
    • JH test design
    • TP conclusions
  • Modular Code development (PM): JR, TP

Meeting notes

(newest upper)

2025-02-24

Attending: DI, SW, EG

• Instructors deciding
  • EG to send an email and talk with JR and TP
• Last reminder on questionnaire in chat (SW)
• SW to e-mail to hackmd helper
• EG to email the local host: useful links and show availablilty to help/meet if they need
• Instructor emails (not yet)

2025-01-20

Attending: EG, DI, SW, RD

• Get registration live asap
  • event exists in indico, but is not up to date event did not exist in Indico
  • workshop page: https://coderefinery.github.io/2025-03-25-workshop/
  • DI will work on it on Tue
  • Registration: all via CR registration
    • we share registration info with local hosts to reach out to "their people"
    • GDPR compliant
• SW to prepare survey (Webropol)
  • explain strategy (new old pairing)
  • interest in helping
  • interest in teaching topic (date)
  • time availability + requirement
  • interest in TTT and date (use RD availability)
  • to team, ambassadors, chat
  • include DL: right before 11.2
  • availability for install
  • e-mail address
  • in-person room hosts
• move 11.2 Open House (RB, SR, EG) to not overlap with NRIS teaching (SW)
• HackMD: initial planning https://hackmd.io/@coderefinery/Spring25_CR_planning
• No radical changes for this workshop
• Shell crash course as part of the installation session support,
• Installation: Day before workshop starts to catch the late realizers, Mon March 24th 13.30 CET - 15 CET
• Crashcourse: Aalto RSE group
• Shell Crashcourse and install session: Wed Mar 19th 13 CET - 14.30 CET
• Other updates: If teachers have time, they can do larger updates, but not require
• Link check implementation for lessons:
  • Sphinx can do it with make linkcheck
  • As part of Workflow?

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