CSCCE December Community Call: Annual community potluck
2025-12-16 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
As in years past, our December community call is an opportunity to close out the year in reflection and intention setting. The call will be roughly divided into three “courses,” with participants encouraged to “bring a dish to share” – in other words, our collective contributions will create a unique gathering, which you can expect to include reflection prompts, gentle activities, and opportunities to discuss and set intentions for the year ahead.
Specifically, please bring a dessert to share this year: something that inspired you in some way over the last 12 months. Some suggestions for what to bring include:

A book or article
A podcast series or episode
A poem, quote, or song lyric
A piece of music or new (to you!) artist
A TV show or movie
A recipe
A painting

You can find more information about the event in this blog post: https://www.cscce.org/2025/11/19/decembers-community-call-seventh-annual-cscce-community-potluck/
Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88123402630?pwd=[REDACTED]

CSCCE Community Tools Trial: Zulip
2026-01-21 11:00 - 12:30 | https://us02web.zoom.us/meetings/83142974212/invitations?signature=diQ6rsI45PPUaynUdY0FO6enNS6XlFvZ2Eu8FmNgsZc
Zulip is an open source platform, similar to Slack, that supports community engagement through threaded discussions and curated channels. It is growing in popularity in STEM, and within our community of practice there is a collective interest in learning more about the platform, as well as several resident experts willing to demo Zulip and answer questions.
Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/meetings/83142974212/invitations?signature=diQ6rsI45PPUaynUdY0FO6enNS6XlFvZ2Eu8FmNgsZc
So, we’re bringing back our community Tools Trials format to facilitate a conversation about Zulip! Our panel of Zulip experts includes:

Samantha Wittke, CSC-IT Center for Science
Danny Garside, Digital Research Academy
Maria Doyle, Bioconductor
Philip Durbin, Dataverse
Rory Sawyer, OpenRefine

They’ll each share a brief demo or presentation to highlight the features of Zulip, and then they’ll all be available to answer any questions you might have about the platform.
CSCCE Tools Trials are free events that are open to anyone convening communities in STEM, and this session is perfect for you if you:

Are interested in learning more about setting up Zulip as a new community platform
Want to learn more about what it takes to transition a community from Slack to Zulip
Already run a Zulip community, but are interested in “advanced” features such as integrating bots
Want to get to know your fellow scientific community managers

We intend for this to be the first in a short series of Tools Trials focusing on open-source tools for community engagement. Please check our Events calendar for future events, and/or reach out to info@cscce.org if you have a suggestion of a platform to trial.
