Meeting 23 August 2021

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 and encourage collaboration
• to get the community's questions answered and provide help with technical aspects of creating Carpentry workshop websites, registering workshops with the Carpentries, Carpentry institutional membership or anything else
• to help the community in the UK with organising workshops and finding instructors/helpers
• to provide a welcoming and inclusive environment for the community to share their experience, explore topics of interest, find collaborators for training related projects and network.

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

Regular calls: 4th Monday of the month, 16:00-17:00 UK time

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

Community's HackMD workspace: https://hackmd.io/team/local-uk?nav=overview Previous meetings: https://hackmd.io/V3ReKkEESzqyCNxWJdulOw#Meetings

Useful Links and Resources

• Carpentries UK Community mailing list [local-uk] (https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/local-uk)
• New!!! uk-carpentries Slack
• Carpentries UK Community Slack channel within The Carpentries Slack
• Carpentries Code of Conduct
• Connect with the general Carpentries community - twitter, mailing lists, blog, slack, community calendar
• Carpentries Handbook - a comprehensive resource for all things Carpentries
• Carpentries workshop FAQ
• Carpentries Blog

Meeting Minutes

Time: 16:00 UK time Location: Zoom URL: https://zoom.us/j/95360073649

Chair: Mario + Phil Timekeeper: N/A Notetaker: Phil

Agenda

• Assign notetaker & timekeeper
• Sign in - 5 min
• Announcements -
• Guest speaker - none
• Wrap-up/AOB - 5 min

Sign-in

Name/pronoun if you like/ institution

1. Phil Reed, he/him, University of Manchester
2. Shashank S. Harivyasi, he/him, University of Leeds
3. Ed Bennett, Swansea University
4. Lucia Michielin, she/her, CDCS University of Edinburgh
5. Mario Antonioletti, he/him, SSI/University of Edinburgh
6. Jez Cope, he/him, Data Services Lead, The British Library
7. Alycia Crall, she/her, Director of Community, The Carpentries
8. Jannetta Steyn, she/her, Research Software Engineer, Newcastle University

Announcments

• Mario: Edinburgh curriculum about to begin. Teaching virtual still.
• Lucia: DCDS teaching hybrid delivery upcoming from January 2022 onwards. Someone in the room will be checking the feeds. Equal divide of people in the room and remote. Carpentries will be a good one to demo the hybrid version. Will explore in the next weeks.
  • Sher! looking at feedback for hybrid events, difficult to find best way to implement them effectively. The ones who are online feel disconnected from those in the room.
  • Use of OWL cameras. https://uk-shop.owllabs.com/products/meeting-owl-pro
  • Alycia: There is an upcoming workshop (September 14) on hybrid events being offered by the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement: https://www.cscce.org/cscce-webinar-series-virtual-events/
• Use of masks still being encouraged in face-to-face teaching.
• Differences between institutions whether sessions should be mostly physical or mostly virtual.

Git lesson updates

• Merged changes are ready now for Git which requires SSH keys (keys rather than tokens). Both Software Carpentry and Library Carpentry lessons.
• Has anyone taught with it yet?
• Windows PowerShell can pick up keys.

Virtual RSE conference in SeptemberSE

https://septembrse.society-rse.org/registration/ Two events per day. Looking for volunteers.

Actions

• Lucia and Mario to look at using OWL camera for one of these meetings as a demonstration. Suggest October.
• Mario and any others: If you teach the updated Git lesson with SSH, bring your feedback to this group next month.

Next meeting: 27 September 2021, 16:00 BST