 Hello everybody, my name is Saskia Hultman, I work at the U.S. Medical Center in New Zealand and in other ones. Hi, I'm Polaterasha, I work with Saskia Hultman at the U.S. Medical Center in New Zealand and other ones. And I also work at the Bones River School in Breda. Today we'll give you an update about recent developments in the Galaxy Training Network, or GTN. So, Galaxy Training Network updates from remote year. We work on the GTN a lot, Elaine and I, together with the dynamics budget from Friberg University. So, last time we had this talk was in 2019 at GCC, and the laws happened since then. Obviously the pandemic has changed all of our lives a lot, and in this situation for more than a year now. And obviously, we can't have any more in-person events for a long time, most of us. And it's also very different to work, time has gone a little timey-ymy, this has been long this month of March in history. But it's not been all bad. We have vaccines now, hopefully that's light at the end of the tunnel. Personally, I've been enjoying all the cast in the meetings. But on the GTN side, we've also had a lot of cool updates, which we'll talk to you about today. And also, we switched to remote trainings for Galaxy rather than in-person events. So, for those of you who might be new or have not used the GTN before, the GTN offers a collection of training materials around Galaxy. And these are all made by the community, for the community. And you can find all of this on training.galaxyproject.org. These tutorials are made to be suitable for self-study. So everything you need is available on this page. They're often centered around scientific stories, often reproducing scientific analysis that has been published. And here you see the top of every tutorial looks something like this. It has some overview information so that you can find out if this is the tutorial for you. So it shows you what questions are addressed in this tutorial and their learning objectives. So an requirement, like what do you need to know for starting this. An estimate of the time it will take you, the difficulty, and supportive materials such as slides, data sets needed, workflows, and on which galaxies you can run. And at the end of each tutorial, you may also recommend some follow-up tutorials. That was some quick GTN stats for all of you. We have 213 tutorials. These are not just aimed at researchers, but also educators, developers, Galaxy administrators, absolutely everyone. And this is really reflected by the 21 topics that the GTN covers. This isn't just biology anymore. We now include tutorials on things like machine learning and climate and ecology analysis and geographic information systems. The GTN is really expanding into a lot of new directions. All of these tutorials, these 213 and counting tutorials have been made by 187 contributors who are crossing the entire planet. We're so proud of that. We have really a great community and it's growing fast. These numbers will probably all be outdated by the time this video actually airs. In the past year alone, there have been 75 Galaxy training events using the GTN. Those are just the ones we know of. So if you are using the GTN, we would love to know about it. So we can share it with everyone else and let people know about your awesome event. And all our tutorials are fantastic thanks to our community. We're so proud of you. And the statistics most importantly for people are now collected on a single handy stats page. So training.galaxyproject.org. You can find all the information about recently updated tutorials, what topics are covered, how the community is growing, who's recently joined our community. It's really easy to get all these statistics you need for overview slides. What are some new things in the GTN this past year? So the first thing is the GTN now has a news feed. You no longer have to wait for these talks at GCC to find out what has all been added to the GTN. You can now keep up to date with this news feed. So in the home page, you just scroll down a little bit. You will see this table with the latest news and then you can read the full story on the news page of such news. We also have two new community videos that are also available from the GTN home page. First one, I will introduce you to the GTN and what it's all about. And the second one will help you to find out how you can become part of the Galaxy community in various ways. Also, it is themes. So under the extras menu, you'll now find a set of different themes to help make your training experience a little bit more you, including an Australia theme for our trainers down under the GTN. We have lots of new tutorials in this past year. Here are just a few of them. Obviously, we have lots of tutorials covering SARS-CoV-2 analysis. We also have a lot of new machine learning and deep learning tutorials. I've definitely forgotten several here. And we even recently have our first Spanish tutorial. And to find your way among all these tutorials, you have implemented tutorial search at the top of the website. There's a search bar and here you can enter the topic you're interested in or the tool you want to learn about or the type of data. And it'll find you the tutorial for you across all topics. The fantastic news features that came out of the Co-Fest actually last year's GCC was the GTN and Galaxy webhook. So this is a new feature where inside Galaxy, you have direct access to the GTN training materials. It will let you easily see all the contents on a single page. So if you have a small monitor, if you're teaching people to only have a single monitor, this makes life a lot easier. It keeps your place in the tutorial. And best of all, as you can see on screen, you get to jump directly to the tool from the training materials. So especially for servers with large numbers of tools, having the ability to go directly to the correct tool and not only the correct tool, but the correct version as well is really absolutely invaluable. Also, we've added video slides. This is another fantastic feature. So a lot of our slides throughout the GTN have really good speaker notes. And what we've done with that is we've taken those speaker notes. And we've used AWS Poly to speak them. And then we combine them into a video of the slides being spoken with all speaker notes. And this has been really incredibly useful for speeding up the video production process in its remote training time. Now instead, okay, you've decided you need to switch around a slide or two or change an image on a slide. Instead of having to re-record the entire talk, you can just update your tutorial and it'll automatically be rendered for you. So the only thing you need to do to get this working is add speaker notes to your slides. The rest is magic by Helena. If you are not just interested in learning the Galaxy, but if you're a teacher who wants to teach with Galaxy and the GTN materials, we also have features designed for you. We have training infrastructures and services, for example. So this is a service that provides dedicated resources for your workshop or training events, as well as a dashboard to monitor your student progress. You can apply on any of the big three servers. We all offer TOS now. And if you're a group, you'll get this join link. You give this link after your students and they're automatically put in this training queue. It's very easy to set up and configure with your students. There's very little for you to have to do. And your students will get private resources or a dedicated job queue, it depends on the server. And this will let your training run a lot more smoothly. But best of all is the TOS dashboard. This has been absolutely invaluable for training in remote training times. You can see where students are in the tutorial. You can guess a little bit, okay, they're finishing up these tools or someone has an issue with this tool. You can figure out if you're losing anyone. So when you're really getting these remote trainings where you no longer can see your students face to face and see their screens. This has been really incredible to let us know. Okay, we can go on now because everyone's run past QC or things like this. So something else that can help you out as a teacher or the speaker notes. So like we said, most of the slides will have speaker notes. So these are used to generate the videos, but also you can use them when you are preparing to get the presentation yourself. You can have these speaker notes on screen when you present. And these are notes created by all the different contributors. The second thing we have and it's a fairly new feature in our FAQs. So each tutorial now can come with a set of common questions and answers that different teachers have received. So if you are preparing to teach this, you can look through these to see what kind of questions you might expect and how to answer them. Now this is very new, so most of these still need to be filled in. So if you would like to join this effort, we have a co-fest of the energy CC to fill in these FAQs. And the idea is that students and instructors can access these FAQs at the overview box at the top. So the most relatively new feature is the GTN Archive. So we found that a lot of times we get requests for, oh, can I go back to the old version of the tutorial because someone updated it and I'm teaching it tomorrow. So now we have the GTN Archive. You can find this in the extras menu as well with page statistics. And this will give you access to all the old versions of the GTN. So lastly, if you are teaching with Galaxy, but you want to also incorporate your own tutorials into the GTN, we can also help you do that. We welcome any contributions. We have dedicated set of tutorials showing you how we can do this. And we have every three months then online collaboration fest where you can come to learn how to do those and we can support you if you are adding your own tutorial. And we have a Gitter channel where you can come for support to ask your questions about how to do this. Yeah, I'm trying to help you add your tutorial. Okay, now you'll also get more credit for your tutorials. So when we move the contributing authors up to the top of the tutorials, your names are front and center. These are the people, the awesome contributors who helped make this tutorial possible. These profiles also are linked to your GTN profile where we showcase all the different things you've done across the GTN. Whether it's administration or genome annotation or transcriptomics, you'll be able to see all of your contributions to the GTN in one place. Thanks to link to your bosses and things like that. Look at all the things I've done. Also, the bottom tutorials now, they're easier than ever to cite. We have the tutorial citation in plain text format and also bib tech format that makes it easy to copy. So whenever you either learn from a tutorial and want to give credit to the authors, that's totally can easily cite them. Or whenever you've written the tutorial, it's easier than ever for people to cite you as their inspiration for their work. We've also got feedback. So at the bottom of every tutorial is a feedback form, and this is collected publicly on GitHub, which has been really useful for our authors. All of the feedback is available. So whenever someone submits feedback saying, Oh, I struggled with this portion or I had questions about this, the tutorial offers can see that address that and update the training which is accordingly. And they just thought your tutorial is awesome. Yes, there's a lot of good feedback. So to see the feedback here is the link to it. If you are curious to see how often people are using a tutorial that you wrote, and we now have page metrics available also from the extras menu. And here you can see the number of views over time, some other stats for your tutorial. And one other thing we wanted to discuss today is remote trainings obviously with the pandemic, we can do our normal in person events anymore. But we have switched to remote training. And this was fairly easy because all the galaxy tutorials are already meant for self study. So we tested this approach in a huge event, the GTN smorgasbord earlier this year. So the idea was that it would be completely asynchronous. So prerecorded all videos and offered 24 seven support on Slack. This meant that participants could manage your own time completely they could start whenever they wanted to they could stop they could take breaks whenever they needed to. And this was a huge success that we had over 1200 registrations from 78 different countries. It was a five day event and we had 60 awesome GTN instructors available to help across all time zones. And because this was such a success we want to make this now an annual event. And all the videos created here remain available after the event so you can still view them now you can still use them in your own workshops if you want to teach with Galaxy and don't want to do all the sessions yourself. This is all publicly available. I know some of my co teachers have started using these videos in place of their just because they're so good. So we repeated this, this concept, the GCC training week last week here. And we just added more content so we now also have an entire developer track. And we added lots more science sessions. And this format doesn't work just for for science, but it also worked for Galaxy administration training. And it worked perfectly there as well. Everyone was very happy with being able to manage their time. So I think this is going to be a great format going forward perhaps even here setting. Yes. So in the future in person events will be possible again, but from our side we think that we will keep doing these remote versions as well, because they are a lot more accessible to more people you don't need to travel. It's better for the environment. So we plan to keep doing these as we see here as well. Quick sneak preview to maybe the year ahead. So as a result of these remote trainings, we now have a big library of Galaxy training videos. What we'd like to implement is some sort of shopping cart style course builder where you can pick and choose from these available videos to build your own event. And then after you make your, you create your own program, you will get everything from the website to the registration forums, Slack space for support, everything for your event. One of the very few downsides of all of this remote video training cover has been the need to update tutorials. And we're looking into a couple of different options for how we can maybe automate the entirety of the video recording process. So give them a tutorial, record the video and give me back the video file at the end. And this will make tutorials a lot easier to update and maintain all of these videos that we produce and we'll be basing these perhaps on all the content that everyone's produced for us so far, which is absolutely incredible. So whenever you need to update tutorial, change number, change the tool version, all of this could just be automatic. And this will be fantastic for translated tutorials. This is really more witchcraft. I didn't write that. So there is indeed the Spanish translation project led by Wendy Bacon. It's very exciting. She's going to look at translating these tutorials into Spanish and seeing whether manually translated tutorials are significantly better for students than the automatically translated ones. And I, for one, can't wait to see our results. And in addition to that, the rest of the community will also keep on making lots of new tutorials, hosting events, and we will try to make new features for the GTN. So if you have good ideas like are the things you're missing, please let us know and we can try to improve in the GTN. And of course, all of this can be possible without our awesome contributors. We have 187 contributors right now. They're all collected here in the Hall of Fame and really big shout out to all of you for making this possible. Yeah, without you wouldn't be here. So thank you.