SPOC CoFest 2024: How did it go?

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Posted on: 6 December 2024 PURL: https://gxy.io/GTN:N00098

First SPOC CoFest

We held our first 🖖🏾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.

We welcomed a diverse group of participants, from experienced Galaxy trainers to bioinformaticians with little to no Galaxy experience whatsoever. We also were lucky enough to be joined by a 5-strong outpost from Singapore, prompting a Pacific-time-zone kick-off session prior to our day-long event.

🎉A big thank you to all the participants for their hard work!🎉

Chart showing: 14 new participants, 5 experienced SPOC members, 60% attendance rate, 12 PRs made, 5 tutorials tested on different servers, 2 workflows updated, 8 issues raised, 2 new tutorials WIP, 5 slide decks updated, 1 trained trainer. Open image in new tab

Figure 1: SPOC CoFest: By the numbers
swirled cluster dots surround a circle of people all holding hands, looking towards the bright center (future)

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