Latin America on The Carpentries

Celebrating 25 Years of The Carpentries

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

On 24 July 1998, the first Software Carpentry workshop, led by Greg Wilson and Brent Gorda, came to a close. The workshop aimed to teach researchers skills to work more effectively with their data.

Image by Greg Wilson of attendees at the first Software Carpentry workshop in 1998.

Primera experiencia traduciendo lecciones online dentro de la CarpentryCon@HOME

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

See English translation below.

¿Y tú cómo traducirías esta palabra?

CarpentryCon@HOME traduciendo

En la sprint the CarpentryCon el 20-21 de Julio se comenzó a traducir la leccion de R para datos geoespaciales de Data Carpentry. Nuestro avance ha sido increíble, en unas horas se logró traducir el 80% de la lección utilizando la plataforma Transifex. (agregar la foto aquí).

Junto con David, Paula y Florencia compartimos toda la sesión, permitiendo unirse a gente de todo el mundo en la franja horaria que fuese más conveniente para ellos.

Traducción al español de Ecología con Python, una lección de Data Carpentry

Tue, 22 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Read the English version of this blog post here.

Entre septiembre de 2017 y mayo de 2018 desarrollamos una iniciativa impulsada por la comunidad para traducir las lecciones de Software Carpentry al español. Su resultado fue la producción de tres lecciones de alta calidad, que pueden utilizarse para enseñar un taller de Software Carpentry consistente de La Terminal de Unix, Control de Versiones con Git, y R para Análisis Científicos Reproducibles.

El siguiente paso lógico para potenciar la cartera de lecciones en español de The Carpentries era traducir una lección de Data Carpentry basada en Python. En noviembre de 2018 iniciamos y completamos un esfuerzo comunitario para crear Análisis y visualización de datos usando Python.

Data Carpentry Python Ecology Lesson Translated into Spanish

Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Lee la versión en español de esta publicación aquí.

From September 2017 to May 2018, there was a community-driven effort to translate the Software Carpentry lessons into Spanish, and the result was the production of three high-quality lessons that can be used to teach a Software Carpentry Workshop consisting of La Terminal de Unix, Control de Versiones con Git, and R para Análisis Científicos Reproducibles.

The next logical step to enhance The Carpentries portfolio of Spanish lessons was to translate a Python-based Data Carpentry lesson. In November 2018, we initiated and completed a community-driven project to create Análisis y visualización de datos usando Python.

Three Years in the Making for Instructor Training in Latin America

Mon, 27 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This month I (Rayna Harris) co-taught a remote The Carpentries Instructor Training Workshop for 25 Spanish-speaking trainees in six countries in Latin America. It was awesome! One thing that made this workshop so special for me is that it has been three-plus years in the making. So, I thought I would tell the story, from my perspective, about all the things that came into play to make this workshop a reality.

Carpentries for Latin America

Mon, 12 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The idea of translating Carpentries’ lessons into Spanish and other languages is not new [1, 2, 3]. At the end of 2017, a group of volunteers (see Initial Group members below) embarked on the goal of making Spanish translations a reality. We are very happy that many more volunteers joined us in this effort. We did it, and today we can make the fruit of these months of work known to the entire community!

Carpentries para Latinoamerica

Mon, 12 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

La idea de traducir las lecciones de Carpentry al español y otros lenguajes no es nueva [1, 2, 3]. A finales del 2017, un grupo de voluntarios (ver Grupo inicial) nos embarcamos en la meta de hacer las traducciones al español una realidad. Estamos muy felices de que muchas más voluntarias y voluntarios se nos han unido en este esfuerzo y hoy podemos dar a conocer el fruto de estos meses de trabajo a toda la comunidad. ¡Lo logramos!

Instructor Training in Puerto Rico

Mon, 24 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Data Carpentry website

On March 24-25, Rayna Harris, Sue McClatchy, and Tracy Teal co-taught an instructor training workshop at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR). This was a very special workshop in many ways, and we are excited to share some of the highlights with you.

Also, be sure to check out an accompanying blog post by Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga about the combined Replicathon and Instructor Training events.

Three workshops in Brazil

Thu, 30 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

In Brazil, like in many other countries that we are starting to run workshops, there are many open questions that we need to answer such as

how do we advertize our workshops?
do we charge a registration fee? If yes, how much do we charge?
how do we create a local community after the workshop?
how do we get new partners after create a local community?

Thanks to the work of many instructors like Anelda van der Walt, Belinda Weaver, Bill Mills, Lex Nederbragt, Selene L. Fernandez-Valverde, and Tiffany Timbers we are getting some hypothesis to the questions above across the world. In terms of Brazil, the three workshops that we ran in May added more data to help answering the questions.

First Workshop in Venezuela

Thu, 03 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Last November Francisco Palm taught the first ever Software Carpentry workshop in Venezuela, the second country from Latin America to enter in our list of previous workshops. We are very excited with our expansion across Latin America and we hope to add more countries to that list next year.

Learners from the first workshop in Venezuela.

Francisco allowed us to share some of his words about the workshop:

Another Good Workshop in Brazil

Tue, 23 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The indefatigable Raniere Silva has just posted a description of a workshop at the University of Ceará that he and Dani Ushizima just finished teaching. It went well, and there are a lot of good ideas in his write-up — please check it out.

Software Carpentry at Brazilian Open Science Conference

Sat, 23 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Last week, Raniere Silva and Alex Viana attended at Brazilian Open Science Conference where they ran a Git course for Software Carpentry and Alex gave a talk about Software Carpentry (like the one that Damien Irving gave at PyCon Australia). Our workshop was a great time and from the feedbacks every student like it. One of the students said:

Very didactic, the instructors showed much care, dedication and attention with the students.

and another one

Very good, from the basic to complex in a easy way.

Translating Software Carpentry into Portuguese

Tue, 08 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

We are very pleased to announce that we will run a half day workshop/advertising session at Open Science, Open Issues, an open science conference at Rio de Janeiro, and for that we will translate our Git lesson into Portuguese. If you If you would like to help, please head over to this GitHub repository, which has instructions and contact information.