<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Jon Wheeler on The Carpentries</title><link>https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/author/jon-wheeler/</link><description>Recent content in Jon Wheeler on The Carpentries</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:20:56 -0400</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/author/jon-wheeler/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Introducing the New Instructor Trainers Leadership Committee for 2025</title><link>https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2025/08/introducing-the-new-instructor-trainers-leadership-committee-for-2025/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2025/08/introducing-the-new-instructor-trainers-leadership-committee-for-2025/</guid><description>&lt;p>In March, members of the &lt;a href="https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/trainers/">Instructor Trainer&lt;/a> community were invited to vote in its fifth annual election for the &lt;a href="https://github.com/carpentries/trainers/blob/main/governance.md">Instructor Trainers Leadership Committee&lt;/a> (ITLC). ITLC provides governance and development support to our growing subcommunity of Instructor Trainers, and makes decisions on behalf of that community that affect our Instructor Training program and related policies. However, this year an election was not required because the number of candidates (four) was fewer than the number of available seats (five). All four candidates were thus appointed by default, and to ensure all seats were filled, the committee appointed a fifth member.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Introducing the new Instructor Trainers Leadership Committee for 2024</title><link>https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2024/05/trainersleadershipcommittee/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2024/05/trainersleadershipcommittee/</guid><description>&lt;p>In February, the Instructor Trainer community held its fourth annual election for the Instructor Trainers Leadership Committee, a Committee that provides governance and development support to our growing subcommunity of Instructor Trainers, and makes decisions on behalf of that community that affect our Instructor Training program and related policies. Previously called the Trainers Leadership Committee during its first 3 years of existence (&lt;a href="https://carpentries.org/blog/2021/03/announcing-new-Trainers-leadership-members/">2021&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://carpentries.org/blog/2022/05/Trainers-Leadership-2022/">2022&lt;/a>, and &lt;a href="https://carpentries.org/blog/2023/03/Trainers-Leadership-2023/">2023&lt;/a>) this Committee will now be referred to as the Instructor Trainers Leadership Committee to emphasise its service specifically to the Instructor Trainer community.
In their third year as an elected body, the Instructor Trainers Leadership Committee oversaw two important changes:&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>