# 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 :heavy_check_mark:
- 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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