Community Building on The Carpentries

Postponing the Hybrid CarpentryCon 2025 Event in South Africa

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Dear Community,

Over the past few months, The Carpentries Core Team members have been discussing our team’s capacity to support a hybrid CarpentryCon event for 2025. CarpentryCon is our biennial community-building and networking event, and the last event was the virtual CarpentryCon @Home event in 2022. We had already announced in February last year the decision to host the next CarpentryCon in South Africa as a hybrid event in 2025 instead of 2024 after an assessment of our community’s needs and priorities, and our organisation’s capacity at that point.

Library Carpentry Governance - An Update

Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Eight of us from Australia, the UK, the US, Canada, and South Africa met last week via zoom to discuss taking the Library Carpentry project forward.

We discussed the creation of a new website to replace this one, talked about what constitutes a Library Carpentry workshop, discussed who can teach the material, and and started thinking about what kind of governance structure we need to lead the work from now on. There was an update on the status of the IMLS-funded Library Carpentry Coordinator role to be based at CDL.

Carpentry Champions Call

Wed, 07 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

At the 14 February Carpentry Champions call we’ll be talking about the development of a new resource called the Carpentries Cookbook.

This is an open contribution, community-developed document to help members and supporters share strategies to build local Carpentries communities. We’ve begun this work here.

The Champions call is scheduled for 8pm UTC, 14 February, 2018. The meeting agenda, connection details (via Zoom) and sign up are on the etherpad, and you can check the local time and date for you.

Foundations and Funders: Why Should You Sponsor CarpentryCon 2018?

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

CarpentryCon 2018 planning is now well underway. We have chosen a venue and a date, identified keynote speakers, and roughed out a program, but we are still missing one vital piece:

SPONSORS!

CarpentryCon 2018 will teach the practical skills people need to lead 21st century research within academia and industry. By supporting us, you will help develop that next generation of research leaders, people who will attend CarpentryCon to develop the skills needed to take research forward.

Why Should You Sponsor CarpentryCon 2018?

Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The inaugural CarpentryCon 2018 will take place on 30 May-1 June at University College Dublin.

Planning is now well underway. We have chosen a venue and a date, identified keynote speakers, and roughed out a program, but we are still missing one vital piece:

SPONSORS!

CarpentryCon 2018 will teach the practical skills people need to lead 21st century research within academia and industry.

Green Stickies for 2017: Report from the Happy Holidays Green Sticky Party Calls

Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

When Carpentries’ staff score a win, we call it a #greensticky. So for our final community calls for 2017, we hosted two Happy Holidays Green Sticky Parties to celebrate wins we have had this year. The calls highlighted successes, both personal ones, and wins for the wider community.

Among the pluses reported were:

The upcoming Data and Software Carpentry merger
Plans to bring Library Carpentry into the fold
Planning for our 2018 CarpentryCon event
Starting bi-lingual (English/Spanish) teaching demos
Getting ideas for starting a community from the Community Champions calls
Teaching a Software Carpentry workshop for the first time
Successfully using Carpentry-style teaching in an undergraduate programming course
Getting to meet community members in person

Tracy Teal said that calls like these are the #greensticky, and no-one disagreed.

Our 2017 Community Service Award winner: Anelda van der Walt

Wed, 13 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The Carpentries are happy to honor Anelda van der Walt as our 2017 Community Service Award winner. We received seven independent nominations for Anelda this year, which is a testament to her commitment to both individual people and the broader community.

Starting from scratch, Anelda planted the tiny seed that has now become the phenomenal growth of Software and Data Carpentry in South Africa, not to mention its spread to an ever-growing list of other African countries, such as Namibia, Botswana, Ghana, Gabon, Mauritius, and Ethiopia.

CarpentryCon 2018 - Website is Live!

Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

We are excited to announce that our website for CarpentryCon 2018 is live.

CarpentryCon 2018 will take place at University College Dublin from 30 May - 1 June, 2018, with the overarching theme of “Building Globally, Connecting Locally”.

The three-day event will focus on professional development, community building and networking, as we aim to help skill up the next generation of research leaders through a combination of talks, workshops and breakout sessions.

Community Building Catchup

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The last Carpentries’ Champions call led by Jonah Duckles was well attended, with representatives from Australia, South Africa, Ethiopia, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Norway.

After the introductions and a review of the last call, attendees were divided up into four breakout rooms to discuss (while keeping the following three questions in mind) an event that promoted a sense of excitement about new research tools.

Pack Your Bags for Dublin!

Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The Carpentries are excited to announce that the 2018 CarpentryCon will take place from 30 May - 1 June, 2018 at University College Dublin (UCD).

Yes, we are going to Ireland for the inaugural CarpentryCon!

A huge thank you to UCD for their bid - we are confident that this will be a fantastic venue.

We are also grateful to all the other community members who proposed bids to host CarpentryCon. All were compelling, and it was very hard to select one from so many fantastic options.

Carpentries Mentorship Program - 2.0

Thu, 12 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

We’re starting a new round of mentoring groups, centered on specific lessons

Mentorship is an important part of the Carpentry experience. As Instructors, we both teach and mentor our Learners. We also mentor each other as Instructors, learning something new from each other every time we teach and interact with one another. The Mentoring Subcommittee offers guidance to new and continuing Instructors through weekly discussion sessions, where Instructors from the global Carpentry community gather to share their experiences and learn from each other. This is a fantastic opportunity to interact with other Carpentry Instructors from around the world.

Mentoring is Back! Round Two of the Carpentries Mentoring Program begins October 25th

Thu, 05 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Mentoring groups provide experienced instructors with the chance to help small groups develop confidence in teaching, lesson maintenance and community building

The inaugural Carpentries mentoring program was a great success, and we have used the feedback we received from both mentors and mentees to craft a new and improved mentoring experience in round two. The next round will run October 25th - January 10th.

All About CarpentryCon

Wed, 30 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

What is CarpentryCon?

CarpentryCon aspires to become a major learning, skill-building and networking event for our global Carpentries community. We want to help Carpenters develop the skills they need to get the careers they want. We want to help them create supportive local communities based on our values of openness and sharing. We also want to give newcomers the chance to network with more experienced people in our community, so that a range of hard-won knowledge can be passed along to a new generation of leaders.

Feedback of Champions

Thu, 24 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Jonah Duckles and I hosted our first Community Champions call on 22 August (23 August for us southern hemisphereans). Twenty-five people signed up for the call. We had attendees from the US (several locations), the UK, Canada, the Netherlands, plus me in Australia and Jonah in New Zealand. We also had a range of expertise - some old hands, and some keen to kickstart a brand new community.

The Champions League

Mon, 07 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

When people sign up for our newsletter, Carpentry Clippings, many mention community building as one of their key interests. We are lucky in the Carpentries to have so many people who want to build local groups. These people are our community’s champions. They are the hard workers who volunteer their time to organise and run local workshops, recruit new instructors and helpers, teach and maintain our lessons, serve on committees and task forces, and generally help further the Carpentries’ mission of skilling up researchers to do more efficient, reproducible science.

Open Channels

Thu, 06 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

I was writing a talk about community building in the Carpentries for the ANDS Tech Talk series, and found myself surprised at how many things we do.

Obviously, workshops are our key community-building activity. They help us reach new learners, give instructors the chance to practise teaching, and draw in new helpers. Many learners and helpers go on to become instructors themselves, which builds further momentum.

Community Building on The Carpentries

Postponing the Hybrid CarpentryCon 2025 Event in South Africa

Library Carpentry Governance - An Update

Carpentry Champions Call

Foundations and Funders: Why Should You Sponsor CarpentryCon 2018?

Why sponsor CarpentryCon?

Why Should You Sponsor CarpentryCon 2018?

SPONSORS!

Why sponsor CarpentryCon?

Green Stickies for 2017: Report from the Happy Holidays Green Sticky Party Calls

Our 2017 Community Service Award winner: Anelda van der Walt

CarpentryCon 2018 - Website is Live!

Community Building Catchup

Pack Your Bags for Dublin!

Carpentries Mentorship Program - 2.0

We’re starting a new round of mentoring groups, centered on specific lessons

Mentoring is Back! Round Two of the Carpentries Mentoring Program begins October 25th

Mentoring groups provide experienced instructors with the chance to help small groups develop confidence in teaching, lesson maintenance and community building

All About CarpentryCon

What is CarpentryCon?

Feedback of Champions

The Champions League

Open Channels