# Meeting - 24 November 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:**

### 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. Matthew Bluteau, he/him, UKAEA
1. Toan Phung, he/him, University of Dundee
5. Dmitry Nikolaenko, he/him, Durham University (checkout)
6. Aman Goel, he/him, SSI, University of Manchester
7. Andrew Walker, he/him, University of Oxford
9. Esther Turner, she/her, National Oceanography Centre
10. Samantha Finnigan, she/her, Durham University
11. Olexandr Konovalov, he/him, University of St Andrews
12. Andrew Gait, he/him, University of Manchester
13. Kevin Rue-Albrecht, he/him, University of Oxford
14. Jannetta Steyn, she/her, Newcastle University
15. Saranjeet Kaur, Imperial College London

**Icebreaker:** A soup you love? (Or hate?)

### Review of actions

- [x] [Paste from last meeting]
- [x] Send calendar invites from January 2026 onwards - carry over
- [x] Create HackMD meeting notes for 2026 - carry over
- [x] Get a Carpentries Zoom room for these calls - carry over
- MB: raised moving away from Zoom given it is closed source, not privacy respected, etc, etc
- AGo: yes, reasonable to poll community and see if we want to move to a different platform; but also, see what Carpentries is doing more broadly and whether they want ownership of the platform for this meeting
- [x] December meeting - Skip or not?
- Yes, we should skip. Next meeting will be Jan 26th.

### Announcements

**[Libary Carpentry at 10](https://pad.carpentries.org/community-sessions-2025):**
- Celebration last week featured UK Carpentries efforts (British Library, Uni of Manchester, Leeds, Kings, Southampton, others).
- Talk about the latest ACRL library cookbook on [open science](https://alastore.ala.org/open-science-cookbook) with chapter we wrote, action on all to share where relevant to help get senior buy-in for Carpentries.
- Discussion about the future of Library Carpentry, notes are shared. May be relevant for a UK Carpentries reflection.

**Update to this meeting's monthly tasks**

- Reminder from The Carpentries, we are requested to complete these forms after each call:
- HOST: Please submit this form after the discussion session: https://forms.gle/fiN2NY7QvTReinMC7
- PARTICIPANTS: Please complete this form after the session: https://forms.gle/TqBQ8yrLfsktr2F9A
- AW: asked if there was a rationale for seeking this feedback. Can not see clear benifit of many hundreds of people spending even a few moments after each meeting. His view was that he would not be filling this in.
- MB: who is extracting the data from these forms and how will it be used, given that different groups will be running their (monthly) community meetings in different ways? (JS) Will the conveners of each meeting see the data?
- (AGo and JS will take this feedback to the Carpentries core team.)
- Can we work these into the template for 2026?

### Dicussion / Talk

- Potential topic: Software Carpentry Governance Committee
- Potential topic: NetworkPlus. Much work going on accross training community. Event in London this week (27th under StepUp project). There was also a workshop on 5th and 6th November. Calls for fellowships and placements. See upcoming events below!
- Is this the link? https://nfcs-networkplus.ac.uk/ (see other links in the Upcoming events section below)
- The [Ukrainian Carpentries Community](https://ukrainian-carpentries.github.io) took part in the [Research Software Camp: Careers and Skills in Research Software](https://www.software.ac.uk/Events/research-software-camp-careers-and-skills-research-software) teaching a lesson on version control with Git in Ukrainian (see Ukrainian version in [Контроль версій за допомогою Git](https://ukrainian-carpentries.github.io/git-novice/)).
- you can also read [this blog post in Ukrainian](https://knit.kname.edu.ua/8-novosty/302-vikladachi-kafedri-komp-yuternikh-nauk-ta-informatsijnikh-tekhnologij-vzyali-uchast-u-seminari-kontrol-versij-za-dopomogoyu-git-za-programoyu-research-software-camp-careers-and-skills-in-research-software) written by attendees from the the Department of Computer Science and Information Technologies, O. M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv.

### Instructor Training checkout questions

- It was surprising for the candidate to see this call is a part of the checkout
- Checkout process: 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
- Different regional communities: https://carpentries.org/community/get-connected

### Upcoming events / calls
_Event name / date, time & venue / website / description_

* **CW26 Call for Proposals** - Deadline: Friday, 16th January 2026 - 23:59 GMT - [More information](https://www.software.ac.uk/news/take-stage-cw26-submit-your-proposals-now)
* **Workshop** - *Building a comprehensive and coordinated training landscape for dRTPs* - Thursday, 27th November, 2025 - London - [More information](https://www.tickettailor.com/events/stepupproject/1867117)
* **Call for Applications** - *DRI Knowledge Exchange Fellowships* - Deadline: Sunday, 30th November 2025 - [More information](https://www.cake.ac.uk/about/ke-fellowships)
* **Call for Applications** - *DRI Knowledge Exchange Placements and Visits* - Deadline: Rolling deadline of the 1st of each month - [More information](https://www.cake.ac.uk/about/placements)
* **Survey and Workshop** - *N8 Online Research Technical Professional Recruitment and Diversity Sandpit* - Tuesday, 20th January 2026 - [Fill the survey here!](https://www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_1QSwSJAvxqo30nc) - [More information](https://n8cir.org.uk/events/drtp-recruitment-and-diversity-sandpit)
* **Unconference** - *Open Science Retreat Global 2026* - April 7-11, 2026 - Wales - Deadline: Sunday, 30th November, 2026 - [More information](https://open.science-retreat.org/OSR26UK)
* **Call for Applications** – *The Carpentries Code of Conduct Committee* - Deadline: 28 November 2025 - [More information](https://carpentries.org/blog/2025/11/coc_membership_call)
* **CAKE has a good overview of events and calls in the DRI landscape** - [Funding Calls](https://www.cake.ac.uk/funds) - [Calendar](https://www.cake.ac.uk/events) - [Opportunities](https://www.cake.ac.uk/opportunities)
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### Wrap-up/AOB

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### Action points
- [ ] Send calendar invites from January 2026 onwards
- [ ] Create HackMD meeting notes for 2026
- [ ] Get a Carpentries Zoom room for these calls - or poll on what platform people want to move to?
- [x] Fill The Carpentries forms
- [x] Email for checkout