# Meeting 28 February 2022

## About

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](https://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/policies/code-of-conduct.html).

**Regular calls: 4th Monday of the month, 16:00-17:00 UK time (BST or GMT)**

**Meeting details are shared via [local-uk mailing list](https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/local-uk) and [The Carpentries community calendar](https://carpentries.org/community/#community-events).**

**Community's HackMD workspace: https://hackmd.io/team/local-uk?nav=overview**

**Previous meetings: https://hackmd.io/V3ReKkEESzqyCNxWJdulOw#Meetings**

**Chairing rota: https://hackmd.io/@local-uk/rkPK1Si7F**

**Guest speaker sign up: https://hackmd.io/@local-uk/rkkzBTLOd**

## Meeting Minutes
**Time:** 16:00 GMT (UTC + 0)

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

**Chair:** Aleksandra Nenadic

**Timekeeper:**

**Notetaker:**

### Agenda
0. Assign notetaker & timekeeper
1. Sign in & ice-breaker
1. Review of actions
3. Announcements
- 2nd Text and Analysis Summer School, in person, Edinburgh, 6-10 June 2022, open to people in humanities and social sciences
- Colin's ML lesson from the Incubator is now in beta and looking for other people to try out teaching it: https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/deep-learning-intro
- [Carpentries Lesson Development Programme](https://carpentries.github.io/lesson-development-training) & [pilots](https://carpentries.github.io/lesson-development-training/pilot-description.html)
- [Carpentries Workbench](https://carpentries.org/blog/2022/01/live-lesson-infrastructure/)
- [SSI's Research Software Camp #3](https://www.software.ac.uk/RSCamp-next-steps-coding) - 16-27 May 2022, call for workshops, Code Clinic doctors and mentors
- If anyone would like to help developing a MarkDown lesson, please give me a shout ([e-mail]). The lesson can be found in the incubator: https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/markdown-intro/
4. Guest speaker + Q&A
- **Postponed**! The talk by Phil Reed, University of Manchester, on Library Carpentry survey analysis and report to the Library Carpentry Governance is postponed for one of the future calls.
- We will do "show and tell" instead (see point 7.)
6. Instructor Training checkout questions
7. Show/share and tell
- What are people working on now (training-related but could be general)?
- Projects seeking support/collaboration?
- Events you are planning on attending in 2022 or near future?
8. Wrap-up/AOB
- [Sign up to chair](https://hackmd.io/@local-uk/rkPK1Si7F) or to be a [guest speaker](https://hackmd.io/@local-uk/rkkzBTLOd)
- What would people like out of these calls? Any suggestions welcome.

### Sign-in & ice-breaker

Name/pronoun if you like/ institution / optionally put "(checkout)" if you are here for The Carpentries Instructor Training checkout + **add your currently favourite "emoji" or something nice that happened to you recently if you like**:

1. Christina Nguyen (she/her), University of Toronto, (checkout), [e-mail]
2. Aleksandra Nenadic (she/her), Software Sustainability Institute, University of Manchester, :meow_party: from [Slack emojis](https://slackmojis.com/) because we had so many cats on a call today
3. Graham Blyth (he/him), University of Leeds
4. Colin Sauze (he/him), Aberystwyth University
5. Sarah Jaffa (she), UCL, I like that they finally made a good hug emoji, like the old MSN one [but I don't know how to do slack emojis](https://i.imgur.com/x2FFrdN.png)
6. Lucia Michielin (she/her), CDCS Edinburgh University Nice thing: First rugby game back after Covid
7. Matthew Bluteau (he/him), UK Atomic Energy Authority, nice thing: first Lindy Hop social evening this coming Friday
8. Juan Herrera (he/him), EPCC (The University of Edinburgh). Favourite emoji: [Party Parrot](https://cultofthepartyparrot.com/).
9. Alison Clarke, Durham University.
10. Jannetta Steyn, Newcastle University
11. Jingjing Wu, Texas Tech University
12. Jez Cope (he/him), The British Library
...

### Notes

#### Carpentries Lesson Development Programme
**[Collaborative Lesson Development Training](https://carpentries.github.io/lesson-development-training) is a new program being piloted by The Carpentries to teach the skills required to collaboratively create open source lessons** using the Carpentries lesson infrastructure. The training will focus on three main topics:

- Good practice in lesson design
- Creating lesson websites with The Carpentries lesson infrastructure
- Collaboration skills

This is a follow-up to the "book club" style round of study groups that the SSI was helping The Carpentries run in 2021 - which was the first attempt to support collaborative lesson development in the community - and is an attempt to develop a training programme similar to the Instructor Training.

As part of the programme [two pilot workshops](https://carpentries.github.io/lesson-development-training/pilot-description.html) will be run to train people in lesson development pedagogy (between March - September 2022) and after that (later in autumn 2022) the first trainer cohort will be trained for scaled-up delivery of the programme in the future.

#### Carpentries Workbench - new lesson infrastructure
**[Carpentries Workbench](https://carpentries.org/blog/2022/01/live-lesson-infrastructure/) is the new lesson infrastructure** developed by the Carpentries to clearly separate the tools used to develop the lesson from its content.

It uses pandoc and 3 custom R packages and provides 2 tempates - Markdown and RMarkdown. It should also provide for easier lesson translation and localisation.

Beta release in April 2022.

#### SSI's Research Software Camp (RSC) #3
**[RSC #3](https://www.software.ac.uk/RSCamp-next-steps-coding) - 16-27 May 2022, is themed around training and called "Next steps in coding"**, and will focus on:

- improving coding skills (for novice and intermediate learners)
- improving teaching, training and lesson development skills
- mentorship

Mixed content throughout the two weeks:
- Live sessions - workshops, talks/panels + discussions/Q&A
- Pre-recorded content, guides and blogs
- Mentorship programme and a Software Surgery

Look out for the call for workshops, Software Surgery doctors and mentors.

#### Show/share and tell
- What are people working on now?
- Projects seeking support/collaboration?
- Events you are planning on attending?

Actions
* Aleks to talk to Toby Hodges about publishing current lesson development proposals so that people can join existing ones to form groups
* Aleks/Graham to send an email to the group to join people up or check Carpentry Incubator for proposals (https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/proposals) that have not been developed as an idea to use for lesson development pilots