 Hello everybody, my name is Saskia, my name is Helena and welcome to the GCC 2021 training. So in this short welcome video we will guide you through what will happen this week and how everything works. So first, we will be using the galaxy training network training materials. In case you're new to this this is a collection of training materials around galaxy, made by hundreds of contributors around the globe. And they cover lots of different topics, and there are a lot of videos to choose from this week. And these are all also suitable for self study so after this week you can just keep working on them if you want. The website for this you can find at training.galaxyproject.org During this event we'll be following a code of conduct will be following one from the IB. If you have any issues. Please let us know please report them to the appropriate contacts are listed in the code of conduct and please read the code of conduct so you know what you've agreed to and that everyone has a safe and welcoming experience. So the program for this week. You can find it on the course website that is linked to here and you should have gotten an email with this to. We have three tracks, we have a science track, we have a developer tracks if you want to work on developing components for galaxy or tools for galaxy and administration track. So if you want to run your own galaxy server. It's a little bit like this, and each of these blue bars is a training session. And if you click on that you can see a little bit more information. So the course format is that you are in charge it's an asynchronous training, which means that all of the course content is prepared it's online it's ready. And you are completely in control the schedule this week, you'll be able to start when you want to breaks when you want and when you want it's a lot more convenient for you. There is no daily schedule for the science and developer tracks there are just modules so you can choose which modules might be interesting to you and just go straight to those you don't have to learn about other topics that aren't so interesting to you. If you don't have any time if you don't have enough time to finish everything, then you can always come back later all of the materials will stay online forever. And during this week, we will be using to slack, which we'll talk about in a minute. Here we'll talk about any questions you have or any help you need getting through the tutorials to get started. You will need the following things the course website to find the program and all the training sessions that are available for you to follow. You probably found this because that's why you're watching this video, but the link is galaxy project org slash events slash GCC 2021 slash training. The second thing you'll need is in galaxy account. So please make an account on one of the following servers. So we have galaxy main in the US, you can find us at use galaxy.org. You have the European galaxy server at use galaxy.eu, the Australian server at use galaxy.org.au, and also the Belgian server use galaxy.be. So please choose whichever one is close to you. They should all work and make an account there. And on each training session during this week we can show you okay the server support the session, but most of these support most of the trainings. Note that if you make an account here, you might get confirmation email, and you have to click the link in that email before you can start working. So click this email, and you can't work yet please let us know. And number three third thing you need is to join Slack. So this is a chat platform where you can ask your questions should have already received an invite link by an email. But if you did not please let us know and we will send it to you again. These are the training sessions that that we saw a little bit about earlier, the blue bars that you'll click on and they'll expand and they'll show you all the materials that are needed to do a single training session so you see here. We've got a video embedded we write a bit about the author, what the video is about who wrote the caption use all of our videos are captioned. So if you have trouble understanding the accent or you need to read what was written, then that's possible. Down below is the supported servers section. So, not as sauce we mentioned not every tutorial supports every is supported on every server because all the servers have different tools it's called on them right. So, if you need to use different server for specific tutorial you'll be able to find out which one here for work. And the bottom is the supporting materials. This is a very important section because it has a link to the slides or the video or the tutorial, as well as the FAQ document for any questions you might have that's the first place you should go to see if we've already addressed the common questions with the tutorial. And otherwise there is also the channel interested if you want to ask questions directly to all of the instructors. So, you can see here the link to slack. Please click on this link to go to the channel and then join the channel. And it'll be very nice if when you start say, say hi let us know that you're starting and then during the session you can ask your questions. And when you're done with the training session please let us know what you thought of it and did you enjoy it. And do you have any wishes for things that could have been added. And remember to thank also your instructors who worked very hard to get all these trainings ready for you. So the videos so most of these training sessions have video tutorials. And all these videos work a little bit differently so in some videos the instructor will take you through every step in Galaxy one by one tell you exactly where to click. You can start a little bit more like demos and you don't have to follow along you just watch. Other sessions are more you work through the materials on your own so you read the manual and you do it, and they can refer to the, to the videos if you get stuck or if you want to have like afterwards a little bit an overview of what she did. A little bit different to her session. Yeah, you really get this continuum of choice. Do you want to watch the video do you want to like just a little bit on the video and mostly on the training materials. A lot on the video a little bit on the training terms when you need copy and paste things or do you just want to skip the videos and go straight to the trial. You can really choose how best works for you to learn. So some important video settings, I think most people have used you to, but if you haven't, all videos have subtitles you'll find these in the gear menu at the bottom right. You can enable subtitles you can change the playback speed if some of us are talking too fast like I'm very guilty of, or you can also decrease or increase the quality depending on your internet connection. Now, like we said support will happen on slack. And just don't be shy, ask all your questions discussions if you're wondering about the science or about how to apply this to your own data all of this, we're here there are lots of instructors this week here, especially for you to answer your questions. So we would love to hear from you. That's what we're here for so please ask. Everybody here, lots of people are new to the galaxy so there are no, no dumb questions we're happy to answer anything. So, you can ask us in slack. You can also look at the FAQ documents that maybe the question has been answered before. If you see another participant ask a question that hey you just figured this out or you know the answer. Please feel free to answer the question as well and talk to them. So this is a little bit more on slack slack is our chat platform will be using to discuss all of the training discussion will be separated into different channels. We have a channel for each tutorial that you need to go through. This helps us keep the discussion very focused to that training session and nothing gets mixed up. We also have a social channel, if you just want to socialize and a couple of other channels like that that aren't tutorial focused, but most of them are in slack, there is threaded conversations as a feature. So when you ask your question can reply in a thread and this helps keep the chat very organized so when you want to reply to something someone said please try and reply in a thread. There's one on one calls but we'll also have remote for that if we need. And hopefully, because we're using slack we can have 24 seven support from instructors around the world we've got a whole wonderful team across the globe who's going to help out with this, and having an all on a slack on a chat platform is easier than like real time video makes a lot easier for instructors from all cross time zones to help out. Now to find the channel for your session. Please open the session on the website at the bottom you see this supporting materials section. And there is this, this one part where it shows you what's channel belongs to the session session has its own channel so we can keep things organized a little bit. So you can click on this link to go directly to that channel. And another way to find all the channels is in slack itself on the left side you see the list of channels. If you go to that word channel versus plus icon if you click on that you can go to browse channels and you see the whole list of all the channels and join lots of channels once. And when you open channel for the first time you'll see a button at the bottom like this join channel. So just click that to join and then you can follow the discussion you can ask your own questions. Things like that. And one last tip about slack so if you have joined a lot of sessions and it's a bit too much and you can't find your channels anymore you can start your favorites by right clicking on them and then they will be sorted to the top. So you can do the ones that you're working on or that you're most interested in following. So this is Rima. It looks a little bit different this year than it did last year that's been used for the rest of GCC and it'll already be open this week if you want to go play around and explore. This is a virtual conference hall we've created for the galaxy main event so that'll be the conference all the presentations. And as you see there are lots of different tables spread out across the floor, all of the little space man icons you can click on those, and that'll join a seat at a table. And then you can talk with each other Rima lets you do video conferencing as well as chat and or just audio discussions. I'd like to work together with other participants on a tutorial. Feel free to in Slack say hey I'm on table 38 anybody who's doing this tutorial please join me and then maybe you can talk a little bit together while you work on it and get to know each other. Another thing we have this week are icebreakers. So every day we have one fun little question. We would like you to answer in the social channel so this really helps us to sort of see how many people there are and get to know each other a little bit and just yeah have a good time together. So these are in the program as well. So at the top. There's this training session for icebreaker so it has a question per day and please try to answer this every day. And just interact with each other here and getting each other a little bit and definitely do this if you would like a certificate at the end. Yeah, definitely. There's also feedback, we love your feedback and we desperately need it so if you notice any typos to have any suggestions to have any compliments, did we do something right or complaints about the tutorial we didn't explain something clearly enough. So if the feedback is about the specific materials like the slides with manual, there is a feedback form at the end of every tutorial. You can click on this to fill it out and this will let you say all the things you need to tell us to fix or all the things you thought were wonderful. We'd love to hear the feedback. And if you have feedback about the course itself there is a Slack channel hashtag event GCC 2021. So here you can write any feedback you have about the event itself the organization things like this things that aren't clear or need more or need some more information from us. Okay, and then after the course, everything will stay online so if you couldn't finish all the trainings you wanted to, you can come back later it will stay online forever. If you have some more sessions and you can possibly finish in one week so don't feel like you have to do everything just focus on the things you like best, and you can come back forever basically after the course to keep working. If you want or need a certificate of attendance for this training week that is available upon request. You can create a form you can fill in after this week to request your certificate to qualify for certificate you have to have a ticket to GCC. You have to keep all the work you do so any galaxy histories or other things you might create will ask you to just send that to us, and also be active on Slack so make sure to follow to answer the icebreaker questions every day. If you have any questions join all the channels, let us know when you start give us feedback, and all that sort of things. And then we'll send you a personalized certificate of attendance we would want to know which training sessions you did, and we'll put those on the certificate so you don't have to. You can do as many or as few as you want you'll still get the certificate. The last thing I just want to emphasize this all is a community effort so the GTM materials are already a community effort made by almost 200 community members. This week also we have close to 100 volunteers helping out to answer your questions. And also people made videos and new training materials and updated existing training materials to make this as nice and experience for you this week, as can possibly be so like a big thank you. And if you enjoyed this week if you enjoyed certain training materials please let our community members know they're all volunteering their time, and I love to hear your feedback and your compliments. I'm really thankful for for this community. Yeah, it takes a village. So thank you so much for the analyze and have fun. That's it. Thank you so much. Hope to see you soon.