Invitación a Participar / Invitation to Participate
Invitación a participarLas Carpentries, el Nodo Nacional de Bioinformática México (NNB), y la Sociedad Iberoamericana de Bioinformática (SoIBio) les invitan a participar en el proyecto Carpentry para...
View ArticleRequest for Comment: Share your thoughts on the future of The Carpentries
We are now requesting comments on plans related to The Carpentries!A blog post last week provided history and some context behind the planning still in progress for the eventual merger of Data...
View ArticleTrainer Training Announcement
As the Carpentry community continues to grow, our instructor training is increasingly in demand! In September, we welcomed 13 new Instructor Trainers who will help us to meet that need. We are now...
View ArticleRound Two of the Carpentries Mentoring Program begins October 25th
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....
View ArticleCarpentries Mentorship Program - 2.0
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...
View ArticleWork Cycle Ganymede Wraps Up
We are wrapping up Cycle Ganymede. Here’s what we accomplished over the past six weeks and what we’re still working on. To help with any of these projects, please get in touch!Archiving Pre- and...
View ArticleBlogging for the Carpentries - We Want to Hear From You
This is an open invitation to our community members to share their knowledge.We have a global community working in many different disciplines using a vast range of tools. On our blog, we would like to...
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Our long-term assessment results are in!
What concrete changes are people implementing in their computational research practices as a result of completing a Carpentries workshop?Our long term survey report shows that two-day Software or Data...
View ArticleCall for Nominations to Joint Board
As most of you know, Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry are merging into a new organization, provisionally called “The Carpentries”. This new organization will officially begin on January 1, 2018,...
View ArticleMy Favorite Tool is Git
I love Git and GitHub.I only use them for work I care about. Examples include lesson development for R workshops, my recent performance review packet, and collaborative projects on species distribution...
View ArticlePeople's Favourite Tools
A big thank you to everyone who has responded so far to the call for short posts about their favourite tools.So far we have had Paula Martinez on R, Jeff Oliver sharing his love of Git and GitHub,...
View ArticlePilot Survey Focus Group Update
In April 2017, Data Carpentry began to pilot a survey that includes skills-based questions. Check out the blog post about our assessment strategy, and the work involved leading up to this effort.The...
View ArticlePack Your Bags for Dublin!
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...
View ArticleSkills Training for Librarians: Expanding Library Carpentry
Post from the University of California Curation Center of the California Digital LibraryIn today’s data-driven, online and highly interconnected world, librarians are key to supporting diverse...
View ArticleApply to Become a Carpentry Maintainer
Software and Data Carpentry are currently accepting applications to join the lesson Maintainer team. Carpentry Maintainers work with the community to make sure that lessons stay up-to-date, accurate,...
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16S Metagenomics Workshop based on Data Carpentry: successes and challenges
We ran a 16S metagenomics workshop based on Data Carpentry materials at the North-West University, South Africa, from 24-27 October. A combination of lessons from Data Carpentry, as well as specific...
View ArticleA Mentoring Subcommittee Co-Chair position has just opened!
How would you like to work first-hand on developing our ever growing instructor pool? A Mentoring Subcommittee Co-Chair position has just opened!The leader serving in this year-long position (December...
View ArticleGenomics Lesson Release
Thanks to a Herculean effort from our Maintainers, the long-awaited Data Carpentry Genomics lessons have now been published on Zenodo! These lessons were originally developed through a hackathon in...
View ArticleMeet the Candidates
Eight nominations have come in so far for the 2018 Steering Committee of the new, merged Carpentries.The nominees so far are:Samantha AhernMartin Callaghan (UK)Auriel Fournier (US)Amy Hodge (US)Lex...
View ArticleNorth West University Mafikeng Data Carpentry workshop
Data Carpentry workshop, 1-3 November, 2017Background/IntroductionConducting the first Data Carpentry workshop by members of NWUMafikeng campus and teaching my (Caroline Ajilogba) first workshop was a...
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