# Ideas for the community meetings
_Please add some ideas below. Also copy+paste from the first community meetings_

1. Announements - events, workshops, materials, news, funing opportunities, etc.
- Workshop recordings at SSI YouTube Channel
- SSI's Instructor Training in June
3. In the spotlight - invited guests - workshop coordinators, training group leads, etc.
4. Icebreaker ideas:
- Favourite food atm
- Favourite TV show/film atm
- A book you would recommend
- Where would you teleport now if you could
- Best thing that happened to you in the past year
5. Workshop website creation go-through
- workshop slug/id: date-location[-online]. E.g. 2021-04-05-manchester, 2021-07-01-swansea
- import the workshop template repo to create a new instance
- configure your instance
6. Workshop organisation
- register your workshop with The Carpentries or requests centrally organised workshop: https://amy.carpentries.org/forms/workshop/
- hold a pre workshop surgery for setting up and checking istallations
- consider recording your workshop, some old recordings available at SSI YouTube channel
7. Skill up ideas
- Using Teams for teaching Carpentry workshops (Alex Konovalov)
- Carpentry lesson translations (David Perez-Suarez)
- Lesson accessibility test/skill up (Toby Hodges)
8. [Carpentries Incubator](https://github.com/carpentries-incubator)
8. Discussion topics
- Check [Fellows calls topics](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RlooYuYEAssAveFho21807qZnddc5WFdCWM1XgaNtvw/edit)
- Mental health
- Effective workload management
- Documentation for your software: what do you need, or lack?
- Developing potential RSEs
- Strategies for dissemination of research software
- First steps towards a successful Fellows year
- A flexible curriculum for skills that RSEs need
- Presenting at RSECon22
- What should the next REF look like?