 Hi everyone, my name is Philiuels and I'm here to give you a quick welcome and an introduction as to how the NFCOR hackathon is going to work. So welcome to the March 2023 NFCOR hackathon. We're here today to work together on NFCOR next-low pipelines, tooling and everything else. First a quick insight as to who's attending the hackathon and how things have changed. So the last hackathon we did was October last year. We had 289 people, which was fantastic. I think it was a record at the time. But this time round you lot have outdone yourselves. There were phenomenal 408 sign-ups as I speak right now, maybe more by the time you listen to this, which is an amazing record. Also this time we're trying something new. We're having 16 different local sites all around the world. So about two-thirds of you are actually sitting in a room with other people working together at the hackathon. So hopefully you guys are all getting that hackathon feeling and spirit without having to travel a long way. And also we're running this hybrid online as well. So great to see so many of you joining online as well. Hopefully we're going to have a really good hackathon together. So we asked you a few questions when you signed up. There are a few interesting insights there. Firstly about three-quarters of you have never been to an NFCOR hackathon before. So if you're sat there feeling a bit nervous but of imposter syndrome, don't be. Nearly everyone around you is also a beginner. So welcome to everyone who's here for the first time. Great to see. And a bit of a spread across different sites. Special mention to the Welcome Genome Campus in Cambridge, a massive showing there. So welcome to all of you. But a really good number of people across all these different sites. And those sites really are spread all over the world. Europe, North America, but also we've got one down in Brazil this year. We've got two in Africa. Fantastic showing. So really amazing volunteering by the people leading those sites. And if we look at who signed up, all the attendees with global spread is even better, which is fantastic to see. Of course, with that global spread comes time zones. So just bear in mind that we are spread across these different regions. And if someone's not replying to your poor request review, comment or something like that, then it might be because they're asleep. So just something to bear in mind. We're running this hybrid and online. So as part of that, we'll be using this gather or gather town platform, which we've used for previous events. If you're not familiar with it, it's basically kind of a little computer game where you set up a little avatar and you can run around exploring. And if you bump into other people in the space, you can talk to them, which kind of makes it just a bit more interesting than kind of zoom. And also means that groups of people can find one another and go off to a little breakout room to chat. It's really good. It's worked well for our previous events. And I hope you enjoy it this time around. If you're not quite sure where to start, if you go to the NF Core website on the events page and search for gather, you'll find this bite size talk number 37 where James just spends 10 or 15 minutes walking through how the platform works, demos how to use it and gives you a few little secret tricks like how to make your avatar dance. A couple of points to think about with gather. Firstly, we've put in a list of all the email addresses that were used to register. So if you try and sign up with a different email address, it won't work. Use the one that you registered. You should have had some emails to that. And even if you're at an in-site, in-person hackathon site, please do join on gather. We're going to be working in big groups and collaborating hopefully across sites. And if you're online, that really facilitates that. So please do try and keep a gather window at least in the background so you can kind of stay in touch. With that and the conversations that might follow, please try to use headphones when you're chatting to people so you don't disturb those around you. As usual with NF Core, most of our kind of nitty-gritty discussions will be on Slack and that's how we'll give updates about the events as it goes along. So make sure you're registered and signed up and got Slack open. You can join via NF Core website slash join if you haven't done already. And within Slack we've got a Hackathon March 2023 channel and that's where we'll kind of broadcast all the messages and updates and remind you when things are happening. We also have a bunch of kind of sub channels for the different groups that we're working on. So here you can see five different groups, documentation, infrastructure, modules, pipelines and sub workflows, similar groups to what we've done before. And NF Core Hackathons, the groups are very loose. So don't worry too much if you're not sure which to do and don't worry if you feel like you'd like to change after 10 minutes or two days. That's totally fine. They're just to kind of make it easy for you to find other people working on similar tasks. So very broad and very relaxed. On that note, this year to help with the kind of asynchronous nature and also the fact that we're all kind of spread out so much, each of those group leaders has put together a short YouTube video talking about the kinds of tasks that they'll be working on and what you can expect from that group. That's just to say we don't have to keep repeating the same kind of introduction for people as they filter in. So head over to our NF Core YouTube channel. You'll find a playlist pinned to the top. I think it should also be on the NF Core events webpage and watch one or more of these videos for the groups you think you might be working in just so you're up to speed with everybody else in the group. So you've watched your video, you've picked your group and you know roughly kind of the thing you're going to be doing. Next hop into the Slack channel. Introduce yourself. Say hello. Say what kind of things you'd like to work on. Say you've got no idea what you want to work on if that's the case and just kind of introduce yourself to everyone else. Then we've got a GitHub project board. This is on the NF Core organization and we've tried to collect all different issues across the whole NF Core organization there. So if you're not sure what to work on, that's where you go to find a new issue and you will have a look through, see if anything grabs you. Once you find something, assign yourself to that issue so everyone can see that you're working on it and we don't duplicate things and get to work. Try and do your coding and when you're done put in a poll request and maybe try and find someone to review. It works well in the past when you have like a review buddy system so you could swap reviews with somebody else. And finally don't forget this one. Make sure you make a note of what you've done in these hack and deem documents which we'll send around. It's just a markdown document and that helps us to get an overview, bird's eye view of all the work that everyone's doing across the organization. I know in a couple of local sites you might be in slightly different groups working on slightly different things. That's totally fine but do try and let us know of the central organizers the things you've been doing so we give you kind of due credit and attention. If you're, especially if you're new or if you're kind of not sure this all feels very kind of unfamiliar, do check out the NF Court events web page. We've got all of these short bite-sized talks which we do every Tuesday and a lot of them are designed for kind of beginners so there's GitHub contribution basics which tells you what a repository and a clone and a fork and a poll request is which is really important for working together and there's lots of really good stuff in there and there's also interesting talks about pipelines themselves and more kind of specific information. So that's on our YouTube channel all of those talks. We've also just rewritten all the training material on training.nextflow.io so if you want to brush up on that particular operator or what a channel factory is go and have a look and we've got all the YouTube videos from a couple of weeks ago when we ran this online also on the YouTube channel so you can skip through and find the relevant section and watch that if you need to and of course remember the NF Court website. Of course we're not just here to work it's a big social aspect to hackathons and hopefully we're going to have a lot of fun. We've got quite a few things going on this time and most of them are async. The new one for this hackathon is we're going to run a scavenger hunt. Very simple we've got a slack channel there called Hackathon March 2023 Scavenger and in that slack channel we've queued up a whole load of challenges and one will come out about every couple of hours or so through your hackathon. Many of them are requesting you take a photo of something silly or something fun or random and basically go into a slack message thread under there and post your answer to that response and we'll share the best ones and that might even send out some rubber ducks to any standout performers. We're running the NF Court bingo again so make sure you keep that in your browser tab and tick things off as as they happen hopefully GitHub won't go down this time but it usually does and as usual prizes for the winners. If you're a fair one in Gather Town then keep an eye out for all the NF Court socks this is kind of a bit of an in-joke from a previous previous event so Maxime who's created the Gather Town space is hidden NF Court sock ganoji all over the place so have a look see if you can find any take screenshots when you do and when you've got the number that Maxime says so tell everyone on Slack and your winner prize. Not all of them are as easy as this one here this is a screenshot from a previous event of Matias finding a particularly well hidden pair nesting under a tree there. We have a quiz which is the one social event where we're really trying to pull everyone together across all of the sites time zone permitting and we have NF Court themed multiple choice questions uses a web platform called Kahoot. Very simple to use we'll tell you how to do that when the time comes and finally for social this time we've got got funding through Secura Labs and and China Chan Zuckerberg initiative funding for pizza for those of you who are inside insights locations there's a little bit different how everyone's doing that so talk to your local site coordinator about when and when and where and how many thanks to our funders for doing that for us. Right just to wrap up then don't forget about the safety aspect of this event by being here by being part of NF Court you're agreeing to abide to our code of conduct which you can find on our website it's pretty easy to read actually so have a skim make sure you ask people before you take screenshots and gather or take photos of them in real life and get their permission don't troll people and take care of yourself remember to kind of take take breaks and have a little walk around every now and then while I've got your attention I can help but flag the fact that we've just announced the dates for the next flow summits 2023 the last event last year in Barcelona was a massive success had a brilliant time and we couldn't decide whether to do it in Barcelona again or have one in the States so we're doing both so join us for one join us for both I'm really really looking forward to this in October and November this year so if you can't remember these dates or if you want to be notified when the registration opens pop over to the summit.nextflow.io website you'll find a button on the home page which takes you to a screen that looks like this where you can tap in your email address and we'll send you an email when registration opens wrapping up final thing quick thank you to some people thank you to Chanzacaburg initiative for funding NFCOR and next flow projects big thank you to Secura Labs if you're not familiar with the name it's the company that's behind next flow develop next flow and also other kind of additional products like next flow tower wave infusion really helping out and also thank you to the major cloud funders AWS just gave us a big grant of new credits for the full-size testing and also to help out our github continuous integration tests Microsoft have given us credits for full-size testing as well which we're hoping to get set up during the hackathon I believe and as a bunch of you sat at Google offices in London so thank you Google for helping us out with that location and of course couldn't go without saying a big thank you to all of the organisers there's many of you involved in this event all the local site organisers loads of volunteers but a big thanks to the core team who keep all the wheels moving with NFCOR and do so much work for the community so hats off guys and thank you thank you for your efforts right with that I'd like to say a big thank you thank you for listening to me thank you for coming to this hackathon I hope you have a brilliant time shout out if you have any questions or problems on Slack and we'll be more than happy to help and I'll let the local site coordinator take over if appropriate to tell you about what's going on locally or let you get introduced on on Gallow if not thank you very much for listening