Community Workshop | What is the FDM-Werkstatt?
Die FDM-Werkstatt ist ein mehrtägiger Community-Workshop, der sich um die Tools des FDMs dreht. Teilnehmende können neue Tools ausprobieren, gemeinsam programmieren und neue Ideen entwickeln. Der Workshop besteht aus Community-geleiteten Sessions. Auf Grund der Nachfrage wird diese Veranstaltung auf Englisch angeboten.
The community workshop FDM-Werkstatt invites you to learn from and with each other in sessions led by your peers. New features and use cases of RDM tools like eLabFTW, Coscine or git can be introduced, tried out, experimented with and discussed. This workshop is for everyone, who is interested in RDM-Tools and offers sessions catered to beginners as well as to more advanced handypersons in RDM.
The last FDM-Werkstatt took place at the University of Münster, 31.03.-02.04.2025 and was organised in cooperation with the ULB of the University of Münster, the University of Münster and NFDI4Bioimage.
Previous Iterations of the Community Workshop FDM-Werkstatt
The FDM-Werkstatt first took place in June 2023 in Essen and included sessions on DataLad, GitLab CI/CD, Coscine and Emacs. The second iteration „FDM-Werkstatt: Into the RDM Toolbox“ was organised in cooperation with DKZ.2R and the IT Center of RWTH Aachen University and took place in Aachen in March 2024 with sessions on ReSeeD, eLabFTW, Python and Jarves. The third iteration „FDM-Werkstatt: Tools of the Trade“ took place in Münster in March 2025 and was organised in cooperation with the University of Münster, the University and State Library of Münster and NFDI4BIOIMAGE.
You can download the programs and abstracts of the previous iterations here:
Here are a few impressions from the previous workshops: