# Guest speaker sign-up

Sign up here if you want to have a slot to talk to the UK Carpentry community about training in your organsation/community, your training experiences or any other training related topic.

Talks can be 15-30 minutes long, with or without slides, and are typically followed with a Q&A/discusssion session.

## Sign-up
Name/institution/contact email address/ optional topic:

* 2026:
- 22 June 2026 -
- 25 May 2026 (change for Bank Holiday in the UK?) -
- 27 April 2026 -
- 23 March 2026 -
- 23 February 2026 -
- 26 Jan 2026 -

* 2025:
* 22 Dec 2025 - Meeting to be skipped
* 24 Nov 2025 - Software Carpentry Governance & NetworkPlus - Aman Goel *(backup topic)*
* 27 Oct 2025 - Comparing open source documentation platforms
(Phil Reed)
* 22 Sep 2025 - Debrief from [RSECon25 Satellite Training Day](https://rsecon25.society-rse.org/training-community-day) - Aleks Nenadic and Aman Goel
* 28 Jul 2025 - How to promote this group?
* 23 Jun 2025 - CarpentriesMagic (Colin Sauze et al)
* 20 May 2025 - Collaborations Workshop review (Phil Reed et al)
* 28 Apr 2025 -
* 24 Mar 2025 - None
* 24 Feb 2025 - Book club! [The Programmers Brain](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-programmers-brain/9781617298677/) - read it in advance if you can and Sarah Jaffa will provide a 10 minute summary if you havn't read it.
* 27 Jan 2025 - Met Office Git & GitHub Migration using the Carpentries (Dimitrios Theodorakis - confirmed)
* 2024:
* 17 Dec 2024 - UK activity at CarpentryConnect Heidelberg 2024 (Phil Reed)
* 2023:
* approach Steve Crouch/Jeremy Cohen to talk about Bytesized RSE;
* Sarah Jaffa on using GatherTown at workshops, or making a live carpentries course into online self-paced.
* Oleksandr Konovalov, Yani Saibene and David Perez Suarez on lesson translation
* 2022:
* 28 November 2022 - Patrick Austin, STFC, [e-mail] - Experience of teaching large scale, hybrid format "Intermediate Research Software Development in Python"
* 24 October 2022 - Eirini Zormpa - Training for community building at the AIM RSF
* 26 September 2022 - Sarah Jaffa - Silent disco teaching (self paced/flipped classroom)
* 22 August 2022 - Jonathan Stoneman - training journalists to use data
* 25 July 2022 - hopefully, finally with fingers crossed, Matthew Bluteau, experience of teaching an instructor-led version of the “Intermediate Research Software Development in Python” course
* 27 June 2022
- Oh dear, this went ahead on 23 May and Matt wasn't ready. _Mea culpa_
* 30 May 2022 - Matthew Bluteau, UKAEA, experience of teaching an instructor-led version of the "Intermediate Research Software Development in Python" course
- If space, the talk below could also be delivered in this session
* 25 April 2022, Toby Hodges, the Carpentries, to talk about the Lesson Development Programme and the Carpentries Workbench - TBC
* 28 March 2022 - Open! (Had to cancel last minute -- Matthew Bluteau)
* 28 February 2022 - Phil Reed, LC survey analysis and report to the Library Carpentry Governance - cancelled/postponed
* 28 February 2022 - Colin Sauze ([e-mail]), Aberystwyth University, experiences of teaching shell extras, Anaconda, Docker and Machine Learning incubator lessons.
* 24 January 2022 - Selina Aragon, SSI
* 2021:
* 27 December 2021 - this meeting will most likely not go ahead, we carry on in 2022 :-)
* 22 November 2021 -
* 25 October 2021 - Nilani Ganeshwaran, University of Manchester / Library Carpentry
* 27 September - Alison Meynert ([e-mail]), University of Edinburgh / Ed-DaSH Innovation Scholars UKRI project - training in bio/life sciences
* 23 August 2021 - no speaker
* 26 July 2021 - Juan Herrera, ARCHER2 training during pandemic
* 28 June 2021 - Toby Hodges, The Carpentries / Curriculum development
* 24 May 2021 - no speaker
* 26 April 2021 - Jeremy Cohen, UCL & RSLondon / RSLondon regional training for London and South East
* 22 March 2021 - Giacomo Peru, Software Sustainability Institute / EdCarp - Carpentries community in Edinburgh