 Hello, everyone. My name is Marcel. I'm a developer advocate at Sikera working to strengthen the community Next flow and NFCOR and I'm here today to talk about the beginners group for the March 2024 NFCOR hackathon So by now you probably have seen the website for the hackathon and if you go to the topics section You're going to see a bunch of groups. We have the beginner groups Group the NF tasks group the pipeline group and all of them If you already know what to do if your experience and you have attended previously NFCOR hackathons You know what to do in the infrastructure group and modules of workflows You know that you don't have to commit to the same group in the whole hackathon one day You can work on something the other day. You can work on something else. You can change tables. It's completely fine and Some people for some people it's already it's it's the first time they are attending an NFCOR hackathon So for those people I'm the person to look for because I will try to explain to you how it works What group probably fits more what you're interested in doing and so on, right? So if you have any question during the hackathon, you can go to this channel hackathon dash mark as 2024 dash beginners In the NFCOR slack if you don't know how to join the NFCOR slack is you can go to NFCOR website You click on about here You're gonna click on join NFCOR and you're going to click on this button here slack to join the NFCOR slack from there You're going to see many different channels for different reasons for each of these groups and the beginners one where we can talk about What what you can do? It's important to mention that the hackathon is not a training event So you shouldn't expect to receive training or to follow a training material or something like this during the hackathon we have this training portal training.nexo.io Where you should if you are not experienced with Nexo you should attend this website before the hackathon, right? So you can come here. You can click on launch the fundamentals training and here you have multiple different sections talking about Nexo in a very wild wide way So it covers many different topics You don't have to cover all of them to study all of them to learn next flow, but introduction simple RNA-seq RNA-seq workflow, the fantasy containers, channels, processes, operators, modularization This should be enough for you to be able to contribute with something during the hackathon, right? So what to do? You can go to the project board that you can get there from the NFCore github organization So you go to github.com slash nf-core from here you have at the top here projects We're going to click on hackathon March 2024 and you're going to see a lot of issues here They are not all you can go straight to the Repositories like the module repositories and you're going to see many more issues here Try to find an issue that there is no one assigned like there's already someone working on this one But this one there's apparently okay Maximus here We try to look for issues that are without any work done so that you can contribute some of them You can contribute to finish what's being done Well, whatever there whenever there's someone else working on it try to get into agency if you can help or something like this Maybe you have a software that you use you use in your work in your research group And there's no NFCore module for that yet fine Even if there's no issue you can create an issue and contribute this module or maybe a sub workflow with this module Or maybe improving other modules like adding steps Sections to the modules right at this point. I'll probably direct you to a different group So if you say Marcel I really want to work creating a module I'm going to redirect you to the module group where you can get more assistance there So as you can see my job on the on during the hackathon We'd be mostly about trying to help you understand where you can help and pointing you to the right personal group where you can Excel there are training groups. There are many different groups that you certainly can fit So we have the beginners the end of task all this content is live on the hackathon website So you can read with more calm Infrastructure the training materials one with Francisco, right? So see you during the hackathon and hope you have fun