The Carpentries

The Carpentries turns 25 years old on July 24th 2023! 🎉🎈

We have curated a series of #Carpentries25 activities over the coming months to celebrate this milestone, starting with a Launch Event on July 24. Register for the launch event and for notifications to subsequent celebratory events: https://rb.gy/jiqsf

Read on the history of The Carpentries, our celebration plans and on how you can get involved in celebrating with us: https://carpentries.org/blog/2023/07/carpentries25-campaign-announcement/

In May 2023, a significant milestone was reached as The Carpentries transitioned all 43 of its official lessons to a new lesson infrastructure, The Carpentries Workbench. The Carpentries Workbench was a 3-year project led by @zkamvar@fosstodon.org with input and contributions from many community members.

We asked Jennifer Stubbs @malvikasharan@scholar.social, @fmic_@hachyderm.io, Eric Jankowski, @lgatto@fosstodon.org and @csoneson@fosstodon.org for their reflections on the project, its impact, and on Zhian’s leadership: https://carpentries.org/blog/2023/08/celebrating-carpentries-workbench/

The day is finally here! Don't forget to join us later today at 19:00 UTC for the #Carpentries25 launch event celebrating The Carpentries turning 25 years old! https://rb.gy/jiqsf 🎉 🎂

Pictured (at the joint Software Carpentry/Data Carpentry in-person meeting in Davis, California, in August 2016): Today's four guest speakers @jduckles@monogram.org @tracykteal@fosstodon.org @drkariljordan@bird.makeup and @gvwilson@mastodon.social with two Core Team members, Maneesha Sane and Erin Becker, in the centre.

To register: https://rb.gy/jiqsf

In this bitter-sweet blog post published on our website earlier today, @zkamvar@fosstodon.org celebrates the successful roll-out of our new lesson infrastructure, The Carpentries Workbench, to all 43 of our official lessons... and also shares the sad news of his departure from The Carpentries at the end of this year: https://carpentries.org/blog/2023/06/lesson-infrastructure-updates/

Wonderful to find our Executive Director @drkariljordan@bird.makeup featured alongside other data specialists offering tips on effectively sharing your data in this @nature@sciencemastodon.com article written by @jperkel@sciencemastodon.com

Her tip: find a coding partner. “Never teach alone, don’t learn alone, don’t do anything alone.” 🤝

Read the article here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01929-7

The latest episode of the Data Science Education Podcast features our Executive Director @drkariljordan@mastodon.social discussing equitable access in data science.

Here are some of the key takeaways:

🔹 The importance of equity within the data science community
🔹 Creating an inclusive, collaborative atmosphere
🔹 Collaboration in data science projects.

You can listen now on
🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2EsVyqxgxhm44aqFpytTVZ

🎧 Substack: https://datascienceeducation.substack.com/

And please share your thoughts and key takeaways!

To celebrate #Carpentries25 in Africa, Carpentries Instructor and Maintainer, Jean Baptiste Fankam Fankam, shares his fast-progressing journey as a member of The Carpentries community, and tells us why he feels a sense of belonging in this community: https://carpentries.org/blog/2023/09/carpentries25-testimonial-series-jean-baptiste-fankam-fankam/

We will be sharing some highlights from the #Carpentries25 Africa Spotlight Event as it unfolds, starting in the next 1 minute...

FINAL REMINDER: The #Carpentries25 Africa Spotlight Event is tomorrow, September 28 at 10:00 UTC. It will be hosted by @angeliquetrusler@mastodon.social in conversation with four Carpentries Trainers and Instructors from the African continent.

To register: https://rb.gy/jiqsf.

As part of our transition from fiscal sponsorship to a non-profit organisation, The Carpentries Board seeks to elect four community members to serve a three-year term on the Board from February 2024. A non-profit Board of Directors is a group of individuals elected to govern and oversee the organisation’s operations.

Nominations close on October 27, 2023, Anywhere on Earth.

To find out more about the election process and to nominate yourself or another, please see: https://carpentries.org/blog/2023/09/board-of-directors-election-announcement/