# Meeting - 17 December 2024

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

**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](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 & upcoming meetings](https://hackmd.io/V3ReKkEESzqyCNxWJdulOw#Meeting-Notes)
- [Meeting notes template](https://hackmd.io/hgl1tYhOTTqDsIDwjArE5w)
- [Chairing rota](https://hackmd.io/@local-uk/rkPK1Si7F)
- [Guest speaker sign-up](https://hackmd.io/@local-uk/rkkzBTLOd)

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

## Meeting Minutes

- **Chair:**
- Aleks Nenadic
- _Make sure to email <[e-mail]> after the meeting with trainee instructors who joined for the community discussion as part of the checkout_
- **Timekeeper:**
- **Notetaker:** Phil Reed (Aleks while Phil presenting)

### Agenda
0. Assign notetaker & timekeeper
1. Sign in & ice-breaker
1. Review of actions
2. Announcements (including new SSI Fellows)
3. Guest speaker + Q&A
4. Instructor Training checkout questions
5. Wrap-up/AOB

### Sign-in

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

1. Dimitrios Theodorakis, he/him, Met Office
2. Phil Reed, he/him, University of Manchester
3. Aleks Nenadic, she/her, University of Manchester
4. Bev Jones, she/her, University of Sheffield
5. Jannetta Steyn, Newcastle University
6. Esther Turner, National Oceanography Center, Southampton

### Notes

#### Review of actions

No actions from last month.

#### Announcements (including new SSI Fellows)

**[New SSI Fellows 2025](https://www.software.ac.uk/news/introducing-2025-fellowship-cohort-insights-and-celebrations)**

The following new SSI Fellows are involved with The Carpentries:

- Arielle Bennett
- Debs Udoh
- Esther Plomp
- Jack Atkinson
- Nicky Nicholson
- Phil Reed
- Robert Chisholm
- Samantha Wittke

For example, Phil is working on a [Digital skills competencies framework](https://github.com/RSEToolkit/rse-competencies-toolkit) working with arts, humanities and GLAM.

**[Ukraine mathematics conference "At the End of the Year 2024"](https://sites.google.com/knu.ua/aey2024/home)**
- Olexandr gave a talk about sharing reproducible computational experiments, made with mathematical software (in particular, [GAP](https://www.gap-system.org/)), which featured The Carpentries as means of learning necessary skills, and the [Ukrainian Carpentries translation project](https://olexandr-konovalov.github.io/posts/2024/04/18/ukrainian-carpentry/). Slides of the presentation [are available here](https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/311982215/2024_12_Kyiv.pdf).

#### Guest speaker + Q&A

**[UK activity at CarpentryConnect Heidelberg 2024](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15uoPVQmQnXU7WdgZN9o3c7hvMfe4A0md2k-4CDxTR_M/edit#slide=id.p)**

Presenter: Phil Reed

**Upcoming**:

Samantha Ahern:
- Look out for community calls in January 2025 for Software Carpentry, how to move it forward
- An opportunity for those not at RSECon or CarpentryConnect to contribute to the conversation
- Monday 20 January at 09:00 and Wednesday 22 January 19:00 (both UTC)

Aleksandra Nenadic & Matthew Bluteau:
- Blog posts on developing intermediate-level materials and lesson translation
- Continue work on lesson translation (9 lessons translated at the hack-day, some still need merging)
- Professional skills for RSEs - summer school trial (Aleks)

Jannetta Steyn:
- CarpentriesOffline and miniHPC: to anyone interested in testing or developing
- Meetings first Wednesday of the month (except January 2025 on the 7th)
- Join the conversation on Slack #carpentries-offline, [mailing list in TopicBox]([e-mail])
- Running three skill-up sessions on creating a workshop website
- Wednesdays 8 January 15:00, 12 February 15:00, 26 March 15:00 (all UTC)

#### Instructor Training checkout questions

No new instructors this month.

**Question: what have you acheived this year, or what do you want to get out of next year, what is coming up for you? Any reflections?**

Aleks: Marked the intermediate level training as stable, finally! Published on Zenodo. Took 3 years, shows how long lesson development can take.

Aleks: Next year, keen to work on digital skills and competency framework. Technical, personal, interpesonal skills that may not be focused on enough. The group is looking for new people to help review the suggested framework.
https://github.com/RSEToolkit/rse-competencies-toolkit
Mailing list and [Google Group](mailto:[e-mail]).

Data steward as Carpentries instructor, FAIR for software.

Monthly Carpentries workshops.

Intense year! Lots on accessibility and inclusivity.

Transition between sectors, cultural shift.

#### Wrap-up/AOB

- Please volunteer to [chair](https://hackmd.io/@local-uk/rkPK1Si7F) and/or [present](https://hackmd.io/@local-uk/rkkzBTLOd) at these calls in 2025.