Introductory Talk - Workshop for e-Infrastructure trainers
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The Software Sustainability Institute hosted a workshop for e-infrastructure trainers to enhance collaboration, share best practices, and improve training communication. The workshop emphasized developing software skills through collective efforts from various organizations and proposed five recommendations for enhancing training. Participants engaged in discussions, networking, and activities aimed at defining priorities and sharing training resources.
Introductory Talk - Workshop for e-Infrastructure trainers
- 1. So#ware Sustainability Ins2tute www.software.ac.uk Workshop for e-‐Infrastructure trainers Unless indicated otherwise slides licensed under Simon He>rick s.he>rick@so#ware.ac.uk 14 August 2013, Hartree Centre, Daresbury
- 2. So#ware Sustainability Ins2tute www.software.ac.uk So#ware Sustainability Ins2tute • A na2onal facility for cul2va2ng world-‐ class research with so#ware § Four themes: community, consultancy, policy, training • Training focuses on developing the so#ware skills base § So#ware Carpentry, guides, so#ware surgeries #eitrainers
- 3. So#ware Sustainability Ins2tute www.software.ac.uk Why run a workshop? • April 2013 presenta2on at e-‐IAUCF on provision of e-‐Infrastructure training • Everyone wants to work together • Sharing best prac2ce, discovering new resources, easier access to market, preven2ng duplica2on • Training community is fragmented • Hold a workshop to bring trainers together and test the viability of a training community #eitrainers
- 4. So#ware Sustainability Ins2tute www.software.ac.uk Providing the skills for e-‐Infrastructure
- 5. So#ware Sustainability Ins2tute www.software.ac.uk Providing the skills for e-‐Infrastructure • A collabora2on between trainers § DCC, DiRAC, HPC Short Courses, NAG, STFC, So#ware Sustainability Ins2tute. • Five recommenda2ons for change 1. Improving communica2on between trainers 2. Understanding the cost of training 3. Relying on trainers rather than volunteers 4. Working together to publicise training 5. Providing incen2ves to produce and share training materials • Circulate report in September
- 6. So#ware Sustainability Ins2tute www.software.ac.uk How the workshop works
- 7. So#ware Sustainability Ins2tute www.software.ac.uk Three tenets 1. Everything’s flexible 2. Everything’s online § www.bit.ly/eIWorkshop 3. Email everything § e-‐infrastructure-‐trainers-‐2013@googlegroups.com #eitrainers
- 8. So#ware Sustainability Ins2tute www.software.ac.uk What’s on • Lightning talks • Networking • Break outs and repor2ng back • Wrap up #eitrainers
- 9. So#ware Sustainability Ins2tute www.software.ac.uk Break outs • First couple of minutes: choose Chair and Scribe • Discuss! • Last ten minutes: write up Top five points • Email notes to group • Chair or scribe reports back – 5 mins report, 2 mins ques2ons #eitrainers
- 10. So#ware Sustainability Ins2tute www.software.ac.uk Housekeeping • Twi>er: @So#wareSaved, #eitrainers • Toilets • Tours • Fire alarms • Wifi #eitrainers
- 11. So#ware Sustainability Ins2tute www.software.ac.uk Links • Presenta2on at e-‐IAUCF: h>p://slidesha.re/1dhlR9Z • Collabora2ons Workshop: so#ware.ac.uk/cw14 • Providing skills report: s.he>rick@so#ware.ac.uk