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# 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? 
