Meeting - 24 June 2024

• Meeting - 24 June 2024
  • Meeting Info
  • Meeting Minutes
    • Agenda
    • Sign-in
    • Notes

Meeting Info

This is the UK Carpentry Community space for the UK Carpentry instructors, helpers and workshop coordinators (or anyone involved in training tech to researchers in general and outside of the UK) to get to know each other better, update the commmunity about developments, discuss issues and ideas, and encourage collaboration.

During these meetings, we will be conforming to The Carpentries Code of Conduct.

Meeting schedule: meetings happen on 4th Monday each month, 16:00-17:00 UK time, BST (UTC+1) or GMT (UTC+0) depending on the time of the year

Meeting details are shared via local-uk mailing list and The Carpentries community calendar.

• Community's HackMD workspace
• Previous & upcoming meetings
• Meeting notes template
• Chairing rota
• Guest speaker sign-up

Zoom URL: https://zoom.us/j/95360073649

Meeting Minutes

• Chair: Phil Reed
  • Make sure to email instructor.training@carpentries.org after the meeting with trainee instructors who joined for the community discussion as part of the checkout
• Timekeeper:
• Notetaker: Dimitrios Theodorakis

Agenda

0. Assign notetaker & timekeeper
1. Sign in & ice-breaker
2. Review of actions
3. Announcements
4. Tidy up this group's documents
5. Guest speaker + Q&A
6. Instructor Training checkout questions
7. Wrap-up/AOB

Sign-in

Name/pronoun if you like/ institution / optionally put "(checkout)" if you are here for the Instructor Training checkout:

1. Phil Reed, he/him, University of Manchester
2. Colin Sauze, he/him, National Oceanography Centre
3. Dimitrios Theodorakis, he/him, Met Office
4. Olexandr Konovalov, he/him, University of St Andrews
5. Jannetta Steyn, she/her, Newcastle University

Notes

Colin is chairing September! No one seems to care about the football.

Actions

• Phil to talk to Aleks about transitioning old lessons to the new format
  • https://hackmd.io/team/local-uk?nav=overviewPhil: Aleks says there is a workshop at carpentry connect in November which has a Thursday hackathon looking at transitioning lessons to the new Workbench format. Any priorities for transitioning? Mostly incubator lessons.
  • Olexandr: Maybe some HPC carpentry lessons. There is a script to aid the conversion. Translating with Crowdin is set up for the Workbench so lessons need moving across before translating. Found translators through joint UK-Ukraine University twinning scheme/conference/direct contacts.
• Phil to talk to Aleks about revitalising the chairing session rota
  • Aleks said yes, need people to volunteer for a few months ahead.

Updates

Updates from Olexandr:

• Ukrainian translations: status update https://carpentries.org/blog/2024/05/software-carpentries-translation-efforts-in-ukrainian/
• Also workshop template: https://ukrainian-carpentries.github.io/workshop-template/
• Also student summer project in St Andrews to work on Ukrainian Glosario: https://glosario.carpentries.org/uk/

RSECon 2024: The training BoF was accepted: https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/event/49081/session/118381 Aleks leading the coordination. We need to plan the BoF soon!

Tidy up this group's documents

Phil: Some of the links on the main document are a bit untidy and need checking to see if they still work: https://hackmd.io/V3ReKkEESzqyCNxWJdulOw. Update the calendar invite because the link says Forbidden. https://hackmd.io/team/local-uk?nav=overview

Actions:

• - Update recurring calendar invite to replace broken link to 'Community space at HackMD' (or make the link work again)
• - The Carpentries Instructor Training checkout. link on the main hackmd page is broken but not sure where this should point to.
  • Suggest https://carpentries.github.io/instructor-training/checkout.html
• - Fix order of months in 2024
• - Fix Twitter -> Mastodon
• - Fix Slack links
• - Decide what to do with the December meeting, cancel or move forward a week?