# nf-core outreach

## 2026-01-16

### Agenda

- training
- Hackathon
- bytesize
- weekly helpdesk
- events
- community engagement (Chrus' and James' idea)
- blog posts

### Attendance

- [x] Maxime
- [x] Geraldine
- [x] Marcel
- [x] Kurayi
- [x] Fran

### Meeting notes

- lots of activity on the nextflow training side due to v2 syntax and workflow output
- training week is second week of February
- Phil will do all videos for hello nextflow
- Translation?
- Infrastructure is maintained
- Updates are challenging
- Hackathon
- Seqera is keen on supporting local in person groups
- Continue the development of the hackathon in a box document
- Bytesize
- Edmund for end of january
- workflow output from Chrus in early February
- Fran for a seqinspector one
- Weekly Helpdesk
- not that many people, still vacation
- maybe 1-1 meetings to book on-demand
- Or Maxime live coding on Twitch
- Use automation in #help to publicize about helpdesk?
- events
- Tutorial proposal for ISMB
- online for hello nexflow
- in person for hello nf-core
- Tutorial proposal for ECCB
- hello nextflow
- Tutorial proposal for ASHG
- accepted proposal for train the trainer
- Festival of Genomics
- ANF workflow reproducibility
- Chrus and James idea:
- automation for advertising new modules

### Action points

- Translation could be leveraged via ISCB - RSG
- Kurayi to follow up
- Marcel to bring this up in the coming nf-core core meeting
- Registration opens February 1st
- Marcel to look into the hackathon in a box document
- Maxime to check bytesize links
- Maxime to investigate helpdesk-on-demand
- Maxime to see with Chris and Arthur
- Geraldine to send abstract for ECCB
- Geraldine to send abstract for ASHG
- Maxime to investigate events publication
- Will talk with infrastructure
- Maxime to follow up on the automation