Call for Contributions: Data Carpentry Ecology and Software Carpentry...
In mid-2017, Data Carpentry piloted a Curriculum Advisory Committee (CAC) for the Genomics curriculum. The goals for this committee were to provide general oversight, vision, and leadership for the...
View ArticleAnnouncing the first joint Carpentries Bug BBQ
The Carpentries are preparing to publish the Social Sciences and the Geospatial Data Carpentry curricula on Zenodo. The Social Science Lessons will be published in April, and the Geospatial Lessons in...
View ArticleCall for Code of Conduct Committee Volunteers
The Carpentries are dedicated to developing and empowering a diverse community of data enthusiasts. Whether you are an Instructor, learner, Maintainer, Mentor, Trainer, Executive Council member,...
View ArticleMentoring Groups are Back!
In February, we held our mentoring groups virtual showcase, and community members engaged with mentors and mentees virtually to hear about the accomplishments they made over the course of their...
View ArticleWelcome to New Trainers
We are excited to welcome seventeen newly badged Trainers to our community. The group recently finished their program with Karen Word and are now certified to teach new Carpentry Instructors.Join us in...
View ArticleWebinar with Rochelle Tractenberg: Debrief
On February 2, the Assessment Network held a well-attended webinar with Rochelle Tractenberg. Dr. Tractenberg holds two PhDs, one in Cognitive Sciences and the other in Statistics, and directs the...
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DC Genomics Workshop, UC Davis, January 2018
From January 24-25 (Thursday and Friday) we held a Data Carpentry Genomics workshop at UC Davis, led by Sue McClatchy. This was a “sold out” workshop, which filled up about a day after the registration...
View ArticleHow to be involved in the Bug BBQ?
Remind me…When is the Bug BBQ?It starts on April 12th, 9am Eastern (US) and ends on April 13th, 5pm Pacific (US) (click on the links to see these dates and times for your timezone).What is the Bug BBQ?...
View ArticleMentoring Groups Open for Multiple Timezones
Did you miss the deadline to join a mentoring group? Do not fear, there are still openings for mentees to join groups in the following timezones:UTC+2UTC+1UTC+8UTC+11To join, fill out this...
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Developing GitHub labels for The Carpentries lessons
In November and December of 2017, we conducted a series of interviews with lesson Maintainers. You can read the summary and see a link to the full report on this blog post. A major theme that emerged...
View ArticleLaunching our New Handbook
As The Carpentries, we’re excited to announce that we have consolidated and updated many materials and resources to more easily share them online and be a community resource.Today we are launching an...
View ArticleBuilding Library Carpentry Community and Development
We are excited to announce that Chris Erdmann has been hired as the Library Carpentry Community and Development Director starting May 4, 2018.Chris has worked in libraries for more than 21 years to...
View ArticleVolunteering for CarpentryCon 2018
The first inaugural CarpentryCon is less than 50 days away! The taskforce is diligently working to make sure all t’s are crossed and I’s are dotted to ensure that the Community enjoys a wonderful...
View ArticleUpdates on the new Geospatial and Social Sciences lessons
In December 2017, we made a call for community members to contribute to two new sets of Data Carpentry lessons, targeted towards researchers working with geospatial data or survey data for the social...
View ArticleLaunching The Carpentries Website
Website LaunchWe are excited to announce that The Carpentries website is now live!The new website celebrates our merged identity as The Carpentries.The new website will give you access to all things...
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An extended Data Carpentry Workshop over 7 weeks instead of 2 days
BackgroundThe UF R Users Group was formed in January 2017, and since then we’ve been running a weekly “UF R Meetup”: A two-hour session consists of a 30 to 60 minute presentation/tutorials followed by...
View ArticleSocial Sciences Lessons Published!
We are excited to announce the initial release of a Data Carpentry Social Sciences Curriculum. This is the first Data Carpentry Curriculum to be released targeted towards researchers outside of the...
View ArticleHow to be involved in the Bug BBQ?
Remind me…When is the Bug BBQ?It starts on April 12th, 9am Eastern (US) and ends on April 13th, 5pm Pacific (US) (click on the links to see these dates and times for your timezone).What is the Bug BBQ?...
View ArticleMentoring Groups Open for Multiple Timezones
Did you miss the deadline to join a mentoring group? Do not fear, there are still openings for mentees to join groups in the following timezones:UTC+2UTC+1UTC+8UTC+11To join, fill out this...
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Developing GitHub labels for The Carpentries lessons
In November and December of 2017, we conducted a series of interviews with lesson Maintainers. You can read the summary and see a link to the full report on this blog post. A major theme that emerged...
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