Meeting organisation discussion

[Aidan (Aidan Heerdegen, ACCESS-NRI Release Team Lead)]

Thanks for organising this group and announcing the meeting schedule @paocorrales

RSE Announce

The Research Software in Climate and Weather group will meet twice per month: 1st Tuesday of each month @ 3:30pm Thursday two weeks later @ 10am Meeting structure: 30-minute meetings 0-10 minutes: presentation 10-15 minutes: Q&A 15-30 minutes: Community updates and/or continued discussion/Q&A Meeting notes Link to Meeting Notes (published Google Doc) We will keep meeting notes as a way to introduce ourselves and add any updates at each meeting. The editable link to the document w…

A first suggestion: can we put the meeting notes in a topic in this category (Technical > Research Software Community).

This has some advantages over google docs:

1. It is open and so discoverable
2. Doesn’t require a google account (there are legit reasons for some folks to not want to have one)
3. Notes are adjacent to meeting announcements, and it’s easy!
4. People can subscribe to the notes topic so they get an email when new meeting notes are posted if they missed the meeting.

As far as how-to, there are examples in the working groups, which have announce and associated meeting notes topics.

The notes topic can be closed to ensure there aren’t casual conversations, and notes topics can be wiki entries so any group member can edit and add to them (with version history and the ability to revert if necessary).

[paocorrales]

Thanks for the comments! We discussed using a topic vs a documents with @paigem. The main reason for using a public document is to make easier for people to add announcements and things they want to discuss during a session.

The plan is to post notes/links as a topic to continue the discussion after each meeting.

But if that end up not working, we could try something else!

[Paul.Gregory]

Ok so I’ll make a ‘post-meeting sharing thread’ so people can follow up points/discussion raised during the first meeting.

Or do you want me to post follow-ups in here?

[paigem (Paige Martin)]

@Paul.Gregory Thanks again for being our first presenter!! I’d suggest you start a new topic in this subcategory for your debugging discussion specifically. That way it’s clear to people who didn’t attend the meeting what is being discussed in the new topic.

Perhaps you could call the new topic “MPI debugging discussion” (or something similar), and then in the first post you can reference the presentation you gave at the 24 Oct. 2025 meeting to provide some context, and tag the people who were interested in furthering the discussion (just so they see your new topic).

I know you also wanted to share with Aidan the names of the people he was asking about. I would recommend direct messaging him with that info (you can do so on the Forum by clicking “My messages” in the left-side panel, and then selecting the blue “New Message” button in the upper right).