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Figure 1: : D. Bazin, from the Service Desk, during a training session (left); evolution of the number of participants during the training 
workshops (richt). 
In 2020, due to the context imposed by the COVID 
pandemic, workshops were offered in a full online version, 
with live webinars and a period for practical exercises. The 
audience has drastically increased in 2020 (x5) with the 
online format rather than face-to-face (Figure 1, right). 
Without limitation of registrations, these series were 
attended by over 1450 participants from more than 50 
different countries (Figure 2), and 92% of the attendees 
surveyed were either satisfied or very satisfied. 
"he amount of training material produced for these online 
workshops is quite large: for 2020 only, along with scientific 
axperts from the different TACs & MFCs, the service desk 
and technical partners have produced more than 70 
Jupyter Notebooks and 80 tutorial videos (Fiaure 3). 
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igure 2: Number of participants and spatial repartition of the 2020 trainina workshops.