Discuss the coffee & coding page

[nacnudus]

For discussing the Coffee & Coding page. Please comment here to

• add a group
• add details about a group
• improve the blurb
• etc.

Treat it as your wiki.

I'm seeking volunteers to write about Coffee & Coding for the Reproducible Analytical Pipelines website.

Three levels of contribution:

1. Easy: Add C&C clubs you know of to this issue.
2. Easy for you, hard for me: Write a paragraph or so that explains what C&C is and encourages people to participate.
3. Learning opportunity to try markdown and GitHub: make a pull request with a markdown version of the page.

Thanks!

[MeganStodel]

MoJ has a C&C club. Repo is here but not currently public (we're working on it).

[matt-dray]

• BEIS (instigators of the whole movement)
• DfE
• DfT

[nacnudus]

Thanks @MeganStodel. Is there a contact address for people who think they should have access but don't?

Once it's public it would be good to write an article explaining how you made it open. Bound to help others creating this in their own depts.

[MeganStodel]

@nacnudus, our email address for any C&C stuff is [email protected].

At the moment access is a fairly blunt tool. If you are a member of the moj-analytical-services organisation you can access it, otherwise you can't. The C&C team don't have the ability to add anyone to the organisation.

Our vague idea is to have an open version that only includes sessions without anything that might be considered sensitive or confidential - realistically that is almost all of them at the moment, bar a couple of case studies.

[tamsinforbes]

DfT C&C

Hi our public repo is here

https://github.com/departmentfortransport/coffee-and-coding

We live stream (and record) as much as poss - we have ongoing issues with the live stream kit/wifi/acts of randomness. The streams/recordings aren't currently public but would like to be so - may need a little editing/vetting not sure how to do that, or have time.

Our emphasis is very much to promote an environment in which anyone can feel comfortable asking any coding related question of anyone else. This follows from the premise that none of us knew the answer once upon a time, and maybe we still don’t, but maybe we’ll learn.

Here’s our generalised C&C manifesto/blurb/format:

The aim of the Coffee & Coding meetups is to nurture, enable and encourage a vibrant, supportive and inclusive coding community at org_name. Coffee & Coding provides a regular opportunity for people within org_name who are interested in coding to share skills and knowledge, provide advice and guidance to each other and generally network and get to know each other.
The format is generally 40 minutes for a presentation and questions to the presenter/s followed by 20 minutes Code Surgery. The presentations usually take the form of a demonstration of a tool or technique and/or a show and tell of work done within the department using these methods. From time to time we will invite external speakers. The Code Surgery provides the opportunity for people to pose any coding related queries/ruminations/ideas to the gathered coding community.

[Luke-Shaw]

ONS one is here:
https://github.com/datasciencecampus/coffee-and-coding

I was previously at DfT, everything @tamsinforbes said is perfect and the ONS one strives to be the same. We've tried hard to get presenters to make it their own, and accessible to people with an interest in getting started in coding but not necessarily any experience.

[nacnudus]

Thanks everyone, there's now a page with your links and @tamsinforbes's blurb. I'll rename this issue and keep it open for any further discussion about the page.

[nacnudus]

Is there an appetite for a central coffee & coding repo / website for non-sensitive material that depts otherwise can't make open (e.g. their repo also holds sensitive material)?

[MeganStodel]

Is there an appetite for a central coffee & coding repo / website for non-sensitive material that depts otherwise can't make open (e.g. their repo also holds sensitive material)?

I think that could be useful from our (MoJ) perspective. Particularly if it would be helpful for others as well. Will check with the C&C team when we next meet about how we want to approach making some of our stuff public.

[DataS-DH]

DHSC C&C github is here (it probably shouldn't be public right now as it needs so much work): https://github.com/DataS-DH/R-coding-club

We don't have a designated email, all organised via me using eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/health-r-coding-club-tickets-52481515626

Just realised I am posting from our C&C account, by me I mean Katie Davidson

[LouisTsiattalou]

Some info about BEIS' coffee and coding here:
The BEIS Coffee and Coding seminars are weekly at 10-11am on Wednesdays, and open to all.
Contact: [email protected]
Resources: W:/TRAINSHARE on CBAS (open only to CBAS users in BEIS and partner orgs).

[nacnudus]

@LouisTsiattalou thanks! Those details will be online in a couple of minutes.

[cjmwills]

MoD coffee and coding sessions tend to be once a month on Friday mornings. We don't have a neat coffee and code email address yet nor a git repo for it. We use GitLab hosted internally on our servers so wouldn't be visible to OGD's anyway. I'm happy to be POC for MoD if anyone wants to know more though!

[nacnudus]

@cjmwills thanks! Those details are on the site now. The contact address is the main thing -- people at the MoD might find you via this route, and other organisers can exchange guest speakers with you.