The first ever LHCb Starterkit took place at CERN from 2nd to 5th of June 2015. Two weeks after registration opened, 40 people had already signed up and the Starterkit was booked out. It was organised by Tim Head and Kevin Dungs with the help of Igor Babuschkin, and Albert Puig Navarro. The workshop was split in two parts: Two days of Software Carpentry as taught by Rémi Emonet, Kwasi Kwakwa, and Chelsea Chisholm plus two days of LHCb specific software tutorials.

Material

• The Indico event contains a timetable as well as further links to the material.
• The Software Carpentry event page was created by the SWC instructors and contains detailed information concerning their half of the workshop.
• The first-analysis-steps material page contains the material that was used during the second part of the workshop. It has been updated since then. The state of the material as it was during the workshop can be found in the Git repository

Helpers and instructors

In order of appearance:

• Jacco de Vries
• Lennaert Bel
• Roel Aaij
• Sebastian Neubert
• Albert Puig Navarro
• Tim Head
• Sascha Stahl
• Kevin Dungs
• Conor Fitzpatrick
• Igor Babuschkin
• Alex Pearce

Mentions

The LHCb Starterkit was mentioned several times in talks given at collaboration-wide occasions. The linked material is only accessible with a CERN account.

• “PC report” (Talk by Patrick Koppenburg at the 76th LHCb week)
• “LHCb computing workshop summary and other news” (Talk by Marco Cattaneo at the 76th LHCb week)
• “The LHCb Starterkit project from an ECGD point of view” (Talk by Albert Puig Navarro at the 77th LHCb week)

Social event

As part of the first Starterkit there was a social event: BBQ at the LHCb experiment. Thanks to all the helpers and most importantly the grill champion Conor it was a huge success.