# Meeting - 28 October 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:** Mario Antonioletti
- _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

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

### Sign-in

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

1. Andrew Walker (He,Him) / University of Oxford
2. Mario Antonioletti (he/him), EPCC, University of Edinburgh
3. Phil Reed (he/him), University of Manchester
4. Dimitrios Theodorakis (he/him), Met Office
5. Alex Lyttle (he/him), Univeristy of Birmingham (checkout)
6. Colin Sauze (he/him), National Oceanography Centre
7. Toan Phung (he/him), MRC-PPU, University of Dundee
8. Olexandr Konovalov (he/him), University of St Andrews
9. Jannetta Steyn (she/her), Newcastle University

...

### Notes

#### Introductions

Ice breaker: something about yourself, musical instrument theme.

#### Introductions

#### Review of actions
- Calendar invite for December meeting, did you get an updated one? Tue 17 Dec, 4pm.
- [Volunteer to give us a talk](https://hackmd.io/@local-uk/rkkzBTLOd) put yourself in this document in a slot of your choice.
- Maybe Dimitrios to talk about git/github training at the Met Office.
- Maybe Jannetta to talk about mini-HPC.

#### Announcements
- [CarpentryConnect Heidelberg](https://biont-training.eu/CarpentryConnect2024.html), 12-14 November, last few days to book online slots €20.
- Git lesson in SWC changed examples from wolfman/mummy to recipes. Will aid with translation
- Git lesson including branching will be added to incubator (speak to Jannetta). Similar done elsewhere...
- Colin: Here's my modified lesson with the favourite places example for merging/pull requests:
https://noc-oi.github.io/git-novice/08-collab.html and https://noc-oi.github.io/git-novice/09-conflict.html
and the repo with the CSV file that people edit:
https://github.com/NOC-OI/favourite-places

#### Guest speaker: none?

#### Instructor Training checkout questions

- [SSI Fellowship](https://www.software.ac.uk/programmes/fellowship-programme), request introduction.
- Finding instructors, some prefer physical/virtual/hybrid. Often people stay local. Speak to [SSI Fellows](https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/our-fellows).

#### AOB

- Congratulations to Aleks Nenadic awarded at RSECon.
- Next meeting: 25 Nov 2024