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# CodeRefinery Zulip Guide


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Old page: https://coderefinery.github.io/manuals/chat/

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## Notes
- Admin/moderator: move messages to suitable channels/topics if observed
    - let RB,RD,SW know if you want to become Admin/Moderator
    - low thresholds
- other todos and notes moved to https://github.com/coderefinery/manuals/pull/249

## Page draft

Page draft moved to GitHub: https://github.com/coderefinery/manuals/pull/249

Please comment/edit there :) 


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# Old plan: Channels split and merge

might currently be outdated

New name can be either new name or name of stream to be merged into.


| Old name                      | Subscribers | Old Description                                                                                                                                       | Estimated messages/ week | New name | new description    |
| ----------------------------- | ----------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | -------- | --- |
| Aalto                         | 29          | Aalto University scientific computing community (+friends)                                                                                            | 0                        | (keep as is)     |     |
| AaltoScicomp                  | 13          | Aalto scientific computing support personnel                                                                                                          | 0                        | (keep as is) |     |
| Advent of Code                | 32          | For chatting about the advent of code challenges                                                                                                      | 0                        | - (keep as is)      |     |
| announce                      | 442         | General announcements (for example courses, events, etc.)                                                                                             | 1                        | - two new: events / jobs ?     |     |
| carpentries                   | 40          | for any Carpentries-relevant topics; lessons, workshops, teaching/helping/hosting/coordinating in practice, information/experience exchange and more! | 1                        | -> Topics under coderefinery ?      |     |
| coderefinery                  | 72          | CodeRefinery organization: about the team, project, strategy, etc.                                                                                    | 23                       | (keep as is)     |     |
| CR-retreat                    | 10          | Temporary private stream for CodeRefinery writing retreat related discussions                                                                         | 0                        | (keep as is, archive next week)      |     |
| finland                       | 37          | Discussion related to activities in Finland (CodeRefinery, RSE, HPC, SciComp, anything else)                                                          | 1                        | **remove**, or add other countries too?      |     |
| general                       | 441         | Anything really. Interesting stuff, links, ideas, proposals.                                                                                          | 35                       | - two new: random-fun / random-ideas / greetings    |     |
| hands-on-scicomp              | 30          | Work on the https://handsonscicomp.readthedocs.io/ training map                                                                                       | 0                        | -        |     |
| help                          | 443         | Community support. Ask questions related to anything about the topics on this chat (CodeRefinery, RSE, scientific software and data, ...)             | 5                        | (keep as is)   |     |
| infrastructure                | 37          | GitLab, support questions, etc                                                                                                                        | 0                        | keep as is      |     |
| kickstart-aalto               | 32          | Aalto's twice-a-year kickstart courses (scicomp and HPC). Channel exists because the course is open to anyone and this is the coordination channel.   | 0                        | -        |     |
| lessons                       | 377         | Discussions about CodeRefinery lessons. There's usually one topic per lesson and other related things.                                                | 12                       | -  coderefinery-lessons ?    |     |
| N-RSE Board                   | 13          | Private stream for Nordic RSE board members                                                                                                           | 2                        | - nordic-rse_board ? |     |
| new members                   | 435         | New joiners are recommended to introduce themselves here, so we can welcome you: introduce yourself in a new thread using your name as the topic!     | 1                        | -  greetings (one topic for all new members)   |     |
| nordic-rse                    | 372         | Nordic Research Software Engineers: members and general discussion about research software.                                                           | 9                        | (keep as is)  |     |
| nordic-rse-2024               | 12          | Nordic RSE conference 2024 organization, 30-31 may 2024, Otaniemi, Finland, https://nordic-rse.org/events/2024-in-person-conference/                  | 43                       | -  nordic-rse-con_24   ?   |     |
| nordic-rse-conference-reviews | 7           | review of submissions for nordic-rse 2024 conference                                                                                                  | 18                       | (keep as is)        |     |
| nordichpc                     | 52          | NordicHPC discussions, until we find a better place...                                                                                                | 2                        | -  nordic-hpc   |     |
| python-for-scicomp            | 42          | Python for SciComp coordination: A big course each autumn, public to the world. We are happy for any help here.                                       | 1                        | -       |     |
| RSHour                        | 37          | Research Software Hour community and coordination. It is a weekly livestream about research software.                                                 | 0                        | (keep as is)        |     |
| SWC DLN/ELIXIR/UiB Dlab       | 13          | 0                                                                                                                                                     | -                        |  (keep as is)        |     |
| TIL                           | 98          | "Today I learned", tell cool stuff you just learned here.                                                                                             | 2                        | -  random-ideas/-fun ?     |     |
| TIW (today I watched)         | 14          | A place to post awesome videos and discuss them.                                                                                                      | 0                        | -   random-ideas/-fun  ?    |     |
| tools-workshop                | 85          | Where we organize the "standard" CodeRefinery workshop each spring and autumn.                                                                        | 4                        | (keep as is)  |     |
| tools-workshop-staff          | 13          | Where we share Zoom IDs and other non-public info.                                                                                                    | 0                        | remove -> private message instead ?   |     |
| workflows-course              | 27          | Real-life cluster computing workflows course, "Tuesday tools and techniques for HPC". A new course in 2024                                            | 120                      | -   workflows-course  ?   |     |
| workshop-chat                 | 51          | High-volume chat during workshops, mainly for instructors and helpers. Expect tons of messages during each workshop time.                             | 0                        | remove -> chat topic under respective workshop stream ?     |     |
| workshops                     | 74          | Workshop organization (one topic for each workshop/event that isn't big enough to have its own stream).                                               | 3                        | move to new stream: events; announcement and "looking for collaborators" in one  ?  |     |
| zulip                         | 28          | For discussing Zulip, Zulip tips and tricks, and asking questions about how Zulip works                                                               | 1                        | move to help  ?   |     |
| Zulip admin                   | 17          | Zulip default notifications, no other use.                                                                                                            | 1                        | -   zulip-admin    |     |
