# Meeting - 23 June 2025

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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/policies/coc).

**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:** Aman Goel
- _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:** Aleks and collectively across the room!

### Agenda
0. Assign notetaker & timekeeper
1. Sign in & ice-breaker
1. Review of actions
2. Announcements
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. Ellen Wright (she/her) / STFC (checkout)
2. Dimitrios Theodorakis (he/him), Met Office
3. Colin Sauze (he/him), National Oceanography Centre
4. Nico Biagi (he/his), University of Reading "(checkout)"
5. Fran Frenzel, London School of Economics and Political Science (checkout)
6. Esther Turner (she/her), National Oceanography Centre
7. Aleks Nenadic (she/her), SSI
8. Andrew Gait (he/him), RSE, University of Manchester
9. Aman Goel (he/him), RSE/SSI, University of Manchester
10. Jannetta Steyn (she/her), Newcastle University
...

### Notes

- Icebreaker: What's one logistic you would want to be easier when organising Carpentries workshops? (E.g. Creating a website, emailing participants)

OR

What’s something you’re grateful for in the past week?

#### Review of actions

From May 2025 meeting:

- How can we promote this group and its meetings?

Action: track down list of institutional mailing lists, share to them. (eg local library/RSE teams) - Outreach about UK-Carpentry community via UK-RSE and Turing Way? Maybe other channels? - We can plug it in Instructor Training as well (we mention it on UK instructor training events)

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#### Announcements

- [N8 CIR RSE Day, 10 July 2025, York](https://n8cir.org.uk/events/n8cir-rse-annual-meetup)
- [STEP-UP RSLondon Conference, 7 July 2025, London](https://step-up.ac.uk/events/step-up-2025/) - digital research infrastrucure, training, RTPs
- [RSECon25, 9-11 September 2025, Warwick](https://rsecon25.society-rse.org)
- registration open, registration is £380, they've got accommodation at £66.50/night
- RSE UK membership - £20 - https://society-rse.org/join-us/
- a few training proposals rejected and a few accepted
- an idea to have a training-related satellite day on Friday after the conference (normally a dedicated community day) (RSECon 2023 satellite event: https://pipgrylls.github.io/RSECon23-Training-Satellite-Event)
- Draft program: https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75166/program
- [DIRECT Framework](https://github.com/direct-framework/digital-research-competencies-framework) - skills and competencies for RTPs (research technical professionals - RSEs, data experts, etc.)

### Guest speaker + Q&A [4:30 PM to 4:45 PM BST]

#### Colin Sauze - CarpentriesMagic

**Notes**

- https://github.com/CarpentriesMagic
- Project started at Collaborations Workshop 2025
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**Questions for Colin**

- How to get involved? Links and resources
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**Get involved:**

- Slack Channel (#carpentriesmagic on [The Carpentries Slack](https://slack-invite.carpentries.org/)) - https://carpentries.slack.com/archives/C08TD8P7A65
- Topic Box - https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/carpentriesmagic
- Slides - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oL1UcyGZnBwnopv_IUw4_ZYYw_KIPQIeNATSlv4g6Jc/edit?usp=sharing
- Github - https://github.com/CarpentriesMagic/WorkshopAdmin

### Instructor Training checkout questions

- [Checkout process - Get Involved](https://carpentries.github.io/instructor-training/checkout.html#attend-a-regional-call-skill-up-session-or-other-community-programming)
- The Carpentries Slack - https://slack-invite.carpentries.org/
- This community is #local-uk on The Carpentries Slack
- Also on TopicBox - https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/local-uk

### Wrap-up/AOB

- Any questions, comments, announcements from anyone?
- Please volunteer to [chair](https://hackmd.io/@local-uk/rkPK1Si7F) and/or [present](https://hackmd.io/@local-uk/rkkzBTLOd) at these calls in 2025.
- Next meeting: **28 July 2025**

#### Action points

- [x] RSECon25 Training Satellite day - TBD
- [x] Bring the Training SIG into the loop - Aman and Dimitrios
- [x] Update about the satellite day on Slack
- [X] Change of date for 25th August meeting? (Bank Holiday)
- [X] Update Carpentries CoC URL in the meeting notes template