# Meeting - 24 July 2023

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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
- **Timekeeper:** Andrew Walker & Aleksandra Nenadic
- **Notetaker:** Andrew Walker & Aleksandra Nenadic

### Agenda
0. Assign notetaker & timekeeper
1. Sign in & ice-breaker
1. Review of actions
2. Announcements
- [RSE Conf 2023](https://rsecon23.society-rse.org/), 5-7 September, Swansea University, registrations closing on Monday 31st July 2023
- [1st US RSE Conference](https://us-rse.org/usrse23/), 16 - 18 October 2023, University of Illinois, Chicago, registrations open on 1st August
4. Guest speaker + Q&A: Pip Grylls talking about the [RSECon23 satellite event](https://rsecon23.society-rse.org/satellite-events/) looking at the training for RSEs
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. Mario Antonioletti, EPCC/SSI, University of Edinburgh, he/him.
2. Aleksandra Nenadic, she/her, SSI/Univeristy of Manchester
3. Andrew Walker, he/him, Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
4. Olexandr Konovalov, he/him, University of St Andrews
5. Eli Chadwick, he/they, The Carpentries
6. Sarah Jaffa, she, UCL Advanced Research Computing
7. Colin Sauze, he/him, National Oceanography Centre
8. Pip Grylls, University of Warwick
9. David Kane, South East Technological University (SETU) Waterford
10. Jez Cope, he/him, The British Library

### Notes

Due to time constraints we took this out of order.

#### Guest speaker
Started with our guest speaker (Pip Grylls) speaking about a satellite event following RSEcon looking at training provided *by* RSEs *to* other researchers. Seven talks and some other sessions. Looking like a good day.

Background to RSECon: https://society-rse.org/about/history/

##### Q&A
1. Q: Do I need to register seperatly for this event? A: email the conference organisers ([e-mail]).
2. Q: A bunch of people at SSI's collaboration workshop looked at a 'RSE training toolkit' (https://rsetoolkit.github.io/rse-competencies-toolkit/) to look at skills. Is it two late to accept more proposals for the satalite? A: We can probably fit that in. Send Pip details.
3. Q: What are the talks / topics? A: Four tracks - Delivery of Materials, Development of Materials, Policy, Culture, and Resourcing, and Developing RSEs to deliver training. Morning talks in the tracks. Then discussion sessions in the afternoon looking at each track.
4. Q: Are there remote options for the satalite events? A: No, or if it happens it will be informal.
5. Q: Is there a formal capentries meetup / event at this satellite? A: No, but it some capentries people will be present and the topic will probably come up.
6. Q: Any news on the next CapentriesCon. A: 2025 in South Africa, organising it is a big job (pushed from 2024 to 2025). Not sure if plan is every two years going forward.

Any further questions send Pip an email.

#### Introductions

Verbal introductions out of order.

#### Review of actions

None!

#### Announcements

* [RSE Conf 2023](https://rsecon23.society-rse.org/) (5-7 September, Swanse University, registrations closing on Monday 31st July 2023) and [1st US RSE Conference](https://us-rse.org/usrse23/) (16 - 18 October 2023, University of Illinois, Chicago, registrations open on 1st August). May be of interest to some of us.
* From Colin: at Pip's satellite event there will be a 'confessions of an instructor' discussion panel session. Anybody want's to joint the panel please let Colin know.
* From Phil Reed (Manchester), I have to send my apologies today due to emergency database meeting. I would have announced that the Library Carpentry Python session is going to be rewritten, so if anyone uses it (I think Edinburgh Carpentries might?), please be aware. Comms to follow.
* Andrew & Aleks: two proposals funded by NERC's ATSC scheme running a bunch of different capentries based lessions. Aleks's course is an environmentally locallised version of the intermediate workshop: https://github.com/UoMResearchIT/python-intermediate-development-nerc, Chris Wood, Neil Chue Hong, Colin Sauze, Andrew Walker and others are delivering a serise of environmentally locallised two day events.
* Sarha: Capentries is 25 years old today. Much celebrating to be done! See: https://carpentries.org/blog/2023/07/carpentries25-campaign-announcement/ and https://third-bit.com/2023/07/19/twenty-five-years-and-counting/ Event this evening 8pm BST

#### AOB

None!