CodeRefinery workshop March 22-24 and 29-31, 2022

How to join

We are normally limited by number of expert helpers and individual exercise leaders, so we use a livestream to reach more people. Anyone may watch the livestream (https://twitch.tv/coderefinery), and we have Zoom for breakout sessions up to our capacity. Some partners may even host in-person breakout rooms. Read more about how to attend a livestream course.

Attend via livestream only

The promise of the Internet is that we can reach everyone, so why don't we? We teach on a Twitch livestream (twitch.tv/coderefinery) so that anyone may attend the workshop. With livestream attendance, you get:

All workshop content, text and video.
Videos released the same day.
Ability to ask questions, if you register.
Ability to do exercises yourself, or in a self-organized group.

Attendees report a great experience with these livestream courses! We recommend that you form your own team and do exercises together in your own breakout room (in-person or online). We will support this as much as we can! You will be able to ask us questions if you register.

Please register anyway so that you can get emails and we can better report our impact (but you don't have to).

Attend via livestream + Zoom

To provide interactive support, we also host parallel a Zoom session. Learners watch the livestream during teaching, and work in Zoom during exercises.

In Zoom, we group attendees into teams with an exercise leaders and help from our staff. This makes a very interactive workshop, but unfortunately we have limited resources to accept these registrations.

Register as type Zoom Learner or Zoom Exercise leader
You may register as a solo learner, we'll try to take as many as we can (up to the number of exercise leaders who volunteer)
If a team registers with their own exercise leader, you get priority and we will try to accept the whole team. Everyone on the team should register separately and set the same Team name in the registration.

Attending via Zoom will give you everything the livestream does, with the possibly of centrally organized teams and a bit more help.

FAQ: how should I register?

I am alone and want to work with others, how should I register?
- Register for Zoom (if we are full you get the livestream anyway)
Why teams?
- People learn best in small groups, even if the primary teaching sessions can reach many people and be effective. Our strategy gives us the best of both worlds.
I am making my own team, how should I register?
- Want more personal support: Zoom you will have more support from our expert helpers, which may be good for less confident teams.
- Want to manage everything yourself (for example make your own Zoom or in-person room): Livestream only. The coordinator can still join our CodeRefinery chat and interact with us.
- The coordinator could register on behalf of your team and forward information to the others (but it's nice if everyone registers, see below).
My complete team will work together in a physical room, is there any point to joining your Zoom?
- Expert helpers will drop by the Zoom breakout room and ask if things are going OK. If you won't want to screenshare with them and see their demos, there is probably no point. (Note that Zoom is still useful in the physical room for screensharing with each other).
I want to make my team on my own, do I need to register? Does everyone on the team need to register?
- Technically you don't have to, if you carefully check the website for news.
- We prefer if you register so that we can report our impact better. Also, the team gets emails direct from us and the HackMD links to ask questions.
I'm an organization or group, I want to sponsor my community's teams!
- Great! You can do this with or without communicating with us. Feel free to just make your own registration form and manage it if you want. Or talk with us organize them as part of our centrally organized Zoom. Read more about local breakout rooms and contact us.

Price and Zoom priority policy

The course is free of charge, funded by the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration.

When we have more sign-ups as individual learners than our capacity allows, the following priority criteria apply:

Partner communities
National universities or research institutes in Nordic countries and Estonia
Private companies and government agencies in Nordic countries or Estonia
European national universities or research institutes from outside the Nordics.
Others

Therefore it is very important that you use an email address corresponding to your affiliation. If you aren't accepted to the Zoom session, you can always attend the stream part.

If you come as a complete team (i.e. including at least one exercise leader that can attend all the days), we will accept you up to the technical capacity of our meeting. Same for exercise leader and other learners they bring with them (to combine with others).

Accessibility

We hope that everyone can attend and learn from this workshop, but we aren't perfect. Our attempts are mentioned below, if you would like to help or there is something else we can do, please get in touch.

Breakout rooms with exercise leaders gives a community atmosphere and private help.
Our material is provided in writing (lesson websites), by voice, and by demo.
We record videos and post the notes so you can review at your own pace later on. Videos don't include audience voice or video.
HackMD allows anyone to ask questions anonymously and asynchronously, without interrupting others. On the other hand, there are a lot of questions, so don't let it distract you from the main lecture.
Lesson websites/HackMD use standard web technologies, so that browser accessibility plugins can be used (for example making the font more accessible, check browser extensions).
Twitch can be live-captioned using the Google Chrome browser.
You can follow along without providing any personal data (registration, Twitch works with cookies blocked).
We have figures in some lessons which are somewhat important, without good alt text. We are working on this, contributions welcome.