Organize a CodeRefinery workshop

You or us?

• Historically, most workshops are CodeRefinery workshops were organized centrally with a local host.

• Now, we want to transition to locally-invited workshops, so we know we have a audience and advertisement.

• In the future, we need to transition to “independently run”.

Anyone can organize a CodeRefinery workshop and teach the CodeRefinery lessons which are licensed under CC-BY. However, making it a successful workshop requires careful planning and preparation. Here we will go through practical aspects of organizing a workshop.

Centrally organized workshops

• CodeRefinery staff organize, we try to reach as many people as possible.

• Workshops in our own institutions tend to be best-attended, going to a new institution sometimes has low attendance.

• We started this way.

Locally invited workshops

• A local team requests CodeRefinery (usually with a known audience).

• There is usually pretty good attendance.

• CodeRefinery staff travels to site and teaches - at least with local helpers, ideally with a local instructor.

Independently organized workshops

• In the future, we want to encourage independently organized workshops: a site can organize the workshops without needing to go through the core team.

• We don’t yet know exactly how this will work, but this instructor training is part of it.