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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.
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Name/institution/contact email address/ optional topic:
- 2025:
- 24 Mar 2025 -
- 24 Feb 2025 - Book club! The Programmers Brain - 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, patrick.austin@stfc.ac.uk - 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 (cos@aber.ac.uk), 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 (alison.meynert@ed.ac.uk), 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
