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# SSI Fellows Community Call - May 2025

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* Wednesday 7 May 2025, 12:00-13:00 BST/UTC+1
* Zoom room: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89201441249 
* Recording: `link to recording published on Youtube`
* Previous calls: [https://bit.ly/3eu7NjT](https://bit.ly/3eu7NjT)
* Summary: We will hear Fellows' updates from Arielle Bennet on the Turing Way Book Dash.
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## Agenda
Times in `GMT or BST` (check your time zone here: `https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=SSI+Fellows+Community+Call+-+October+2024&iso=20241022T1530&p1=304&ah=1`)

12:00 - 12:05 Welcome
12:05 - 12:25 Fellows’ updates
12:25 - 12:55 Breakout room discussions
12:55 - 12:00 Closing


## Roll call
_Name / Cohort year / Affiliation / Location / Pronouns / Social media_

* Mike Simpson / 2025 / Newcastle University / He/Him / https://linktr.ee/mdsimpson
* Arielle Bennett / 2025 / The Alan Turing Insitute / she/her / 
* Laura Shemilt / 2025 / The Rosalind Franklin Institute/ she/her/
* Deborah Udoh / 2025 / OLS, UK / Nigeria she/her
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* Catherine Inglis / SSI staff / EPCC @ University of Edinburgh / she/her 
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* Patricia Herterich / 2019 / OLS / Edinburgh, UK / she,her
* Shoaib Sufi / SSI Staff / University of Manchester, UK
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* Stephan Druskat / 2018 / German Aerospace Center / Berlin, Germany / he, him
* Jyoti Bhogal / 2025 / RSE Asia Association / Pune, India / she/her / https://jyoti-bhogal.github.io/about-me/index.html 
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* Nicky Nicolson / 2025 / Kew Gardens / they,them @nickynicolson
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* Aman Goel / 2023 / SSI - University of Manchester / Manchester / he, him 
* Robert Chisholm / 2025 / University of Sheffield
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* Michael Tso/ 2023/ UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology/ Lancaster
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### Check-in
_Include your name and answer any of the following prompts: How are you today? What are you working on? Where do you need support?_

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* [name=Arielle] Getting ready for CW25, the Book Dash 
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* [name=Catherine] enjoying the sunny weather, while getting ready for an exceptionally busy week next week (will only be at CW on Tuesday as there's so much else going on too)
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* [name=Mike] Preparing my fellowship talk on mental health to deliver at 4 upcoming events. Completed Mental Health First Aid Training. Preparting lightning talk slide for CW25. Hoping to have some swag and a website to launch as CW25 is during Mental Health Awarenesss week. Talk submitted to RSECon.
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* [name=Stephan] Trying to wrap up things before leaving for CW on Sunday.
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* [name=Patricia] Least prepared for a CW ever it feels. All over the place but trying to make the most of the nice weather
    * To be fair Patricia, this may just be in comparison to last year?!
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* [name=Nicky] Quite unprepared for everything... house move at end of month. Thinking about the upcoming RSMF session
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* [name=Robert] Busy Wednesday meetings 11-4, trying to setup a RAG pipeline around that
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## 1. Welcome - 5 min [12:00 - 12:05]

### General Guidance

* 🤝 Please follow the [Code of Conduct](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eQu4EKHKbL-EMCwbwy7F_YGCOFhBcpBbwsET7QAvA1U/edit?usp=sharing), report any issues to [Rachael](mailto:r.ainsworth@software.ac.uk) or [Shoaib](mailto:shoaib.sufi@software.ac.uk).
* 📹 The Fellows updates are being recorded and the videos will be made available on the [SSI YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/user/SoftwareSaved) after the call. 
* 📝 This document is for SSI Fellows only, so please do not share the link publicly. Feel free to take notes, ask questions, add friendly comments, +1, etc. 
    * Outputs such as blog posts or guides may result from the discussions and shared insights. We will not share any personal information, but if you would like to be contacted and included as a contributing author on any outputs, please include your full name as part of any shared insights.


### Goals of these Community Calls
* Facilitate community building and encourage collaboration within the SSI Fellows community.
* Check in with the Fellows and community care - What are the Fellows up to? How can we support them?
* Provide a welcoming and inclusive space for Fellows to share and explore topics of interest and network with others.

### Breakout room discussion topics 
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## 2. Fellows’ updates - 20 min [12:05 - 12:25]
_This is an opportunity for Fellows to share/show and tell during our community calls. During each call, we can accommodate 2 Fellows who will each have 7 min (+ 3 min Q&A) to introduce themselves and share any updates to the network, such as:_
* _Your Fellowship plans, demos of projects, upcoming events or other activities_
* _Projects for which you are seeking support or collaboration_
* _Life after the Fellowship and how the Fellowship impacted your career_

Timer for speakers: [https://cuckoo.team/ssi-fellows-community-call](https://cuckoo.team/ssi-fellows-community-call) 



Arielle Bennett - 7 min + 3 min Q&A
* Useful links:
    * Sign up for updates on "from code to contributions" here: https://forms.gle/tRGCp5DxfwoHiwU19
    * Sign up for the Book Dash Share Outs on 22 May here: https://forms.gle/8RYqnUnvgSNsXyUy6
    * More information on The Turing Way here: https://the-turing-way.start.page
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## 3. Breakout room discussions - 30 min [`XX`:25 - `XX`:55]
_Please take notes of your discussion while you are in your breakout rooms in the relevant section below for others to catch up with._


### Breakout Room 1: CW25
* Participants:
    * Shoaib Sufi
    * Robert Chisholm
    * Mike Simpson
    * Stephan Druskat
    * Nadine Spychala
    * Deborah Udoh
    * Esther Plomp
    * Jyoti Bhogal
* Notes:
    * [name=Robert] Presenting lightning talk, re: reasonable performance computing SIG
    * [name=Mike] Presenting lighting talk about Mental Health Awareness week (which coincides with CW25) and new "converse" website, to encourage mental health related hack day ideas
    * [name=Stephan] Has not heard back about "software intelligence" lightning talk proposal
    * [name=Nadine] Attending, not presenting
    * [name=Deborah] Two proposals to CW25 Hack day re: mental health
        * https://npdebs.github.io/pre-seeds-research-101/ep-1.1-what-is-research.html (only first episode is ready)
        * Asked re: CW24 Hack day results
            * Dave (Horsfall)/Mike's results from CW24 haven't been fully processed yet, Mike will be presenting high-level info
            * Dave is applying for extension funding
            * Mike has been invited to give several talks about this work
            * Hoping to collect blog posts from as wide and diverse an audience as possible (as part of converse project?)
    * [name=Shoaib] Presenting mini workshop Research Software Quality Kit/Software Excellence  https://everse.software/RSQKit/
        * How to capture information about making research software better and more sustainable
        * Without negating other resources, cross-referencing places such as SSI/Turing Way
    * [name=Shoaib] Hack day judge
    * [name=Shoaib] May be fellows further development fund call following CW25, to fund a few days to continue working on Hack Day ideas.
        * Contract/IP rules TBD
    * [name=Esther] *joined*
    * [name=Esther] Hoping to learn, as combining things with Turing Way and CW
    * Everyone likely to be attending CW25 in-person
    * Slack workspace will be created for CW25
    * [name=Deborah] / [name=Stephan] Keen to hike Loch Lomond/Wallace monument?
    * [name=Jyoti] *joined*
    * [name=Jyoti] Presenting ??? RSE communities

### Breakout Room 2: RSMF
* Participants:
    * Laura Shemilt
    * Michael Tso
    * Ella Kaye
    * Oscar Seip
    * Catherine Inglis
    * Jyoti Bhogal
    * Patricia Herterich
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* Notes:
    * webinar at 1pm: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7j8avRhBSlSSZHmHBypzCg#/registration
    * Ella: long-term sustainability of the R language in terms of renewing collaborators and governance. 
    * https://www.scicatproject.org/
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## 4. Closing - 5 min [12:55 - 13:00]

### Next call: `call date`
* Doodle poll to determine time: `link to Doodle poll`
* Sign-up/register your interest to speak on a future call: https://forms.gle/4YpTTAFUNuA2XyZEA

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*Note that there is a channel in the Fellows slack workspace called #collaboration (another is #peer-review). This is a place to ‘find your people’ and support each other, so please join the channels, and make the most of them!*

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