SPOC HDR UK ELIXIR-UK CoFest 2025: How did it go?

Author(s) orcid logoWendi Bacon avatar Wendi Baconorcid logoMorgan Howells avatar Morgan Howells
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Posted on: 14 February 2025 PURL: https://gxy.io/GTN:N00105

We held our second 🖖🏾SPOC CoFest, in the great tradition of the excellent CoFests organised in the GTN that welcomed Wendi Bacon avatar Wendi Bacon and many others into the community.

This was our first live event, run as one of 12 projects in the inaugural Health Data Research UK / ELIXIR-UK Joint Hackathon.

We welcomed a new and experienced participants, tested new tutorials, and refined the pathway from new user to new contributor - a priority for enabling community engagement and keeping our training materials updated.

We also used the excellent Maintainer page to identify and update metadata in numerous tutorials.

Side by side images showing a list of training resources and many red X on the left (before) and many green checks on the right (after). Open image in new tab

Figure 1: SPOC Training Material page: Before and after

🎉A big thank you to all the participants for their hard work, and to HDR UK and ELIXIR-UK for our selection and funding!🎉

Chart showing: 3 new participants, 3 experienced SPOC members, 19 PRs made and 16 merged, 8 tutorials tested on different servers, 9 issues raised, 1 tool dependency fixed, 1 new learning pathway WIP, 1 new FAQ, 2 socials attended. Open image in new tab

Figure 2: SPOC HDR UK ELIXIR-UK CoFest: By the numbers (at time of writing!)
swirled cluster dots surround a circle of people all holding hands, looking towards the bright center (future)

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