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# Guest speaker sign-up

Sign up here if you want to have a slot to talk to the UK Carpentry community about training in your organsation/community, your training experiences or any other training related topic.

Talks can be 15-30 minutes long, with or without slides, and are typically followed with a Q&A/discusssion session.

## Sign-up
Name/institution/contact email address/ optional topic:

* 2026:
  - 22 June 2026 - 
  - 25 May 2026 (change for Bank Holiday in the UK?) - 
  - 27 April 2026 - 
  - 23 March 2026 - 
  - 23 February 2026 - 
  - 26 Jan 2026 - 

* 2025:
    * 22 Dec 2025 - Meeting to be skipped
    * 24 Nov 2025 - Software Carpentry Governance & NetworkPlus - Aman Goel *(backup topic)*
    * 27 Oct 2025 - Comparing open source documentation platforms
 (Phil Reed)
    * 22 Sep 2025 - Debrief from [RSECon25 Satellite Training Day](https://rsecon25.society-rse.org/training-community-day) - Aleks Nenadic and Aman Goel
    * 28 Jul 2025 - How to promote this group?
    * 23 Jun 2025 - CarpentriesMagic (Colin Sauze et al)
    * 20 May 2025 - Collaborations Workshop review (Phil Reed et al)
    * 28 Apr 2025 - 
    * 24 Mar 2025 - None
    * 24 Feb 2025 -  Book club! [The Programmers Brain](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-programmers-brain/9781617298677/) - read it in advance if you can and Sarah Jaffa will provide a 10 minute summary if you havn't read it.
    * 27 Jan 2025 - Met Office Git & GitHub Migration using the Carpentries (Dimitrios Theodorakis - confirmed)
* 2024:
    * 17 Dec 2024 - UK activity at CarpentryConnect Heidelberg 2024 (Phil Reed)
* 2023: 
    * approach Steve Crouch/Jeremy Cohen to talk about Bytesized RSE; 
    * Sarah Jaffa on using GatherTown at workshops, or making a live carpentries course into online self-paced.
    * Oleksandr Konovalov, Yani Saibene and David Perez Suarez on lesson translation
* 2022:
    * 28 November 2022 - Patrick Austin, STFC, patrick.austin@stfc.ac.uk - Experience of teaching large scale, hybrid format "Intermediate Research Software Development in Python"
    * 24 October 2022 - Eirini Zormpa - Training for community building at the AIM RSF
    * 26 September 2022 - Sarah Jaffa - Silent disco teaching (self paced/flipped classroom)
    * 22 August 2022 - Jonathan Stoneman - training journalists to use data
    * 25 July 2022 - hopefully, finally with fingers crossed, Matthew Bluteau, experience of teaching an instructor-led version of the “Intermediate Research Software Development in Python” course
    * 27 June 2022
      - Oh dear, this went ahead on 23 May and Matt wasn't ready. _Mea culpa_
    * 30 May 2022 - Matthew Bluteau, UKAEA, experience of teaching an instructor-led version of the "Intermediate Research Software Development in Python" course
      - If space, the talk below could also be delivered in this session
    * 25 April 2022, Toby Hodges, the Carpentries, to talk about the Lesson Development Programme and the Carpentries Workbench - TBC
    * 28 March 2022 - Open! (Had to cancel last minute -- Matthew Bluteau)
    * 28 February 2022 - Phil Reed, LC survey analysis and report to the Library Carpentry Governance - cancelled/postponed
    * 28 February 2022 - Colin Sauze (cos@aber.ac.uk), Aberystwyth University, experiences of teaching shell extras, Anaconda, Docker and Machine Learning incubator lessons.
    * 24 January 2022 - Selina Aragon, SSI
* 2021:
    * 27 December 2021 - this meeting will most likely not go ahead, we carry on in 2022 :-)
    * 22 November 2021 - 
    * 25 October 2021 - Nilani Ganeshwaran, University of Manchester / Library Carpentry
    * 27 September - Alison Meynert (alison.meynert@ed.ac.uk), University of Edinburgh / Ed-DaSH Innovation Scholars UKRI project - training in bio/life sciences
    * 23 August 2021 - no speaker
    * 26 July 2021 -  Juan Herrera, ARCHER2 training during pandemic
    * 28 June 2021 - Toby Hodges, The Carpentries / Curriculum development 
    * 24 May 2021 - no speaker
    * 26 April 2021 - Jeremy Cohen, UCL & RSLondon / RSLondon regional training for London and South East
    * 22 March 2021 - Giacomo Peru, Software Sustainability Institute / EdCarp - Carpentries community in Edinburgh

