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The Carpentries has decided to postpone CarpentryCon in 2025 until our transition to operating as an independent non-profit organisation is complete and our finances stabilised.

The Carpentries is preparing to onboard the next round of Maintainers. Applications due 5 April.

The report summarising community members’ responses to the inaugural Carpentries community survey is out!

The Core Team announces which services to the community it will continue to support and which initiatives will continue through community-led support.

Meet our team of nine at The Carpentries and learn how they will continue to support you.

Four community members were elected to serve a three-year term on The Carpentries Board of Directors

A tree does not move unless there is wind. - African Proverb

Ethan White shares his journey at The Carpentries on our 25th Anniversary

Introducing Version 2.0

Updates to instructor view, doi badges, and more

Carpentries Community Session Recap

Announcing our new Maintainer Community Lead

Announcing The Carpentries departure from X (formerly known as Twitter) and Facebook

The Carpentries outlines its community's efforts in localisation.

Phasing out the Regional Coordinator role

Recently badged Carpentries Instructor and Maintainer, Jean Baptiste Fankam Fankam, shares his journey at The Carpentries on our 25th Anniversary

We are looking for the next Maintainer Community Lead!

The Carpentries is planning our transition to operate as an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organisation

NeSI celebrates being a Carpentries champion on our 25th Anniversary

Reflections from the community on our new lesson infrastructure

Instructor, Lesson Maintainer, and Regional Coordinator for Australia, Damien Irving, shares his journey with The Carpentries.

Help provide leadership for Data Carpentry’s Genomics curriculum. Apply by 21 August

Current Executive Council member, Jannetta Steyn, shares her journey with The Carpentries.

The Carpentries turns 25 Years! #Carpentries25

Join us in sharing the contributions and impact the community has made over the years.

Transitioning and Adapting to New Challenges

Join members of The Carpentries Executive Council to discuss outcomes from the Q2 meeting

Community leaders who will guide project strategy for Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry, and Software Carpentry

Everything you need to get involved and make Carpentries lessons easier to teach.

EC members reflect on how to best support The Carpentries as a multicultural organisation by expanding our thinking and discussing power and privilege.

It was helpful that we had booked a lab in a building which has a backup generator

Nineteen new Lesson Maintainers badged

Introducing New Community Programming Offerings

Final preparations are underway

Prepare for transition to The Workbench in May

Join members of The Carpentries Executive Council to discuss outcomes from the Q1 meeting

A look back at styles

The Carpentries is preparing to onboard the next cohort of Maintainers. Applications due March 8th.

Stage 2 of the Beta Phase is Underway

Updates on the Community Development Program

Guide the development of Software Carpentry, Library Carpentry, or Data Carpentry

Beta Phase to enter stage 2 in February

Welcome to 2023 at The Carpentries - A year dedicated to prioritising community health

Join us in welcoming the newly elected Executive Council members!

Ode to Maintainers

Updates on the The CarpentriesOffline project

The beta stage is extending deadlines

The ARDC’s Liz Stokes spoke to Carpentries workshop instructors and helpers about their reflections on running a workshop on data and software skills with ACEAS scientists.

Reenvisioning how we show community appreciation

Strengthening community leadership for Software, Library, and Data Carpentry

Minor Delays

A statement from the Community Development Team of The Carpentries

Help test and improve a lesson teaching visualisation with ggplot2

R for Social Scientists and R for Geospatial Data have entered the Beta Phase

R for Ecologists has entered the pre-beta stage

Dates for Beta Phase Announced

Curriculum Advisors will guide the development of our lessons for Ecology, Image Processing, and Social Science.

Hello Again

CarpentryCon 2022 starts this week! Here are the Keynote Presentations to be ready for!

Workbench Beta on Hold

This blog post is the first of a series to share progress of the CarpentriesOffline project

Seven new Lesson Maintainers badged

Community Discussions Coming Up!

Curriculum Advisors provide high-level leadership for lessons. Apply by 22 July

Help test and improve a lesson teaching researchers skills for reproducible research.

Thirty new Lesson Maintainers badged

Working through chopportunities

Announcing our new Maintainer Community Lead

Working through chopportunities

A strong start to the Beta Phase of The Carpentries Workbench

2021 Financial and Annual Reports Available - A retrospective on all things Carpentries

Some of the projects Dan has been working on along with what's next for the Maintainer community

The Carpentries is preparing to onboard the next round of Maintainers. Applications due 26 May

Help the community test a new lesson on Deep Learning with Python.

Initial outline and plan for the Beta Phase of The Carpentries Workbench

An estimated 300GB of mobile data was provided to 71 attendees.

Get involved with a community lesson teaching intermediate research software development

The new logo modification policy is the result of a cross-team working group that met in the second half of 2021

Next steps for the Community Development Program

New Curriculum Advisory Committees form to support Software Carpentry and three Data Carpentry curricula.

We announce the first draft of our accessible lesson infrastructure and call for beta testers

Get involved in the community’s development of a new lesson to teach Jekyll and GitHub.

Learn more about the transition and how to be engaged

Our new pricing structure for workshops, Instructor Training, and memberships goes into effect today.

Grants, Gratitude, and #GreenStickies: Read on to learn about what The Carpentries will achieve in 2022

We re-evaluate the historical role of the Lesson Infrastructure Community to understand how we can maintain community advocacy in our infrastructure

As part of the checkout process, community members translated more than 300 data science terms into Amharic.

We are taking time throughout December 2021 to reflect, write and share our community green stickies for the year.

The Carpentries is updating our pricing for the first time since 2016.

A new program to build capacity in community management

Please join us in welcoming Angelique to this new role

Get involved in a Task Force on the official lesson publication process.

For the second year in a row, help us internationalise and expand Glosario, the open source, multilingual glossary of data science terms.

An estimated 300GB of mobile data was provided to 71 attendees.

Get involved in the community’s development of a new lesson on how to create interactive data visualizations in Python.

Curriculum Advisors provide high-level leadership for lessons. Apply by September 29

Eighteen new Lesson Maintainers badged

Our next Member Organisation Council meeting will be held 22 September at 15:00 and 23:00 UTC

The Carpentries is looking for members to join the newly reactivated Curriculum Advisory Committees

Get involved in the community’s development of a new lesson to teach Julia to novices.

Feedback is important for The Carpentries’ growth

The Carpentries Welcomes Alycia Crall, Director of Community

Highlighting this lesson from The Carpentries Incubator, teaching RNA-Seq data analysis with Bioconductor

Read on to learn about Carpentries Instructor Vini Salazar's work and accomplishments with regard to the Carpentries Python Curriculum

Ensuring our redesign is friendly and usable for maintainers at all skill levels.

Highlighting a lesson beginning development in The Carpentries Incubator, Foundational Computer Skills.

The Carpentries is preparing to onboard the next round of Maintainers. Applications due 16 July, 2021

The main goal of CarpentryConnect South Africa 2021 is to build capacity for workshops through instructor training, and establish a network for the regional Carpentries community.

Serah Njambi Kiburu is moving on from The Carpentries

Code of Conduct facilitation is part of the Carpentries Community Facilitators Program. We welcome your review and suggestions on our new Carpentries Code of Conduct Facilitators module

A summary of the two community conversations with the Carpentries Executive Council in February 2021, facilitated by Serah Njambi Kiburu and Dr. Kari L. Jordan

Code of Conduct Committee is recruiting new members. Attend one of our community discussions in June to find out more about how we help make The Carpentries a welcoming and supporting environment.

We will continue to listen to and support you as we endeavor to be the leading inclusive community teaching data and coding skills.

Lessons included data organising and cleaning in spreadsheets and with OpenRefine, and data analysis and visualisation with R and RStudio

New information about upcoming Discussion Host onboarding sessions for anyone interested in facilitating community calls and themed discussions in The Carpentries.

Originally posted on the Bioinformatics Hub of Kenya website, this blog post highlights learnings from the BHKi's first R workshop on 24 and 25 March 2021

Highlighting this lesson from The Carpentries Incubator, Bash and R for Metagenomics.

Dr. Michael Culshaw-Maurer joins The Carpentries as a joint postdoctoral researcher with CyVerse

Highlighting this lesson from The Carpentries Incubator, teaching Python for Business.

Read on to learn more about Carpentries Instructor Vini Salazar’s work to develop the Carpentries Python Curriculum

This post provides a summary of discussions and takeaways from the Community Sustainability session that Serah Njambi Kiburu and Toby Hodges facilitated at the March 2021 SORSE workshop

Please welcome the 5 new members of the Trainers Leadership group

Highlighting this lesson from The Carpentries Incubator, teaching Open data science skills with R and RStudio.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Please welcome the 7 new members of the Library Carpentry Advisory Group

In this post, Serah Njambi Kiburu and Emily Lescak summarise Serah's presentation and discussions from her Code for Science and Society community talk on accessibility in virtual events, and share an accessibility checklist to guide you as you plan virtual events.

We share a complete bilingual R lesson in English and Japanese

Highlighting this introductory lesson from The Carpentries Incubator, on containerised computing with Docker.

We request your input in Carpentries Conversation 27 to help guide resource translation priorities and efforts by our community.

Join The Carpentries Team in informal chat sessions at rstudio::global(2021)'s 24-hour conference on January 21 2021

Here are the members of the 2021 Carpentries Executive Council

Instructors' experiences running Carpentries workshops in the University of California System

Set your intentions for 2021

Best practices on online teaching compared to in-person? How to build more visible community network? Nordic and Baltic community is moving forward

Applications to join the Library Carpentry Advisory Group are open between now and 18 January 2021!

Following up on Hacktoberfest 2020 and the first Glosario contribution drive.

Here are some of the many ways you can contribute to The Carpentries

We have now selected and onboarded our first cohort of community facilitators, focussing on feedback facilitation. Read about them in this post.

Introducing our newest Regional Coordinator

The Carpentries Executive Director provides insight on The Carpentries fundraising campaign

Read on for a recap on efforts to develop the Carpentries in academic libraries in California, US

Support The Carpentries $30K Individual Contributions Fundraising Goal

This post covers instructors' experiences teaching a virtual Library Carpentry workshop in August 2020

This October, help us internationalise and expand Glosario, the open source, multilingual glossary of data science terms.

Join our new mailing list for an opportunity to engage with The Carpentries on a philanthropic level

Call for applications to join our 2020 cohort of Carpentries Feedback Facilitators is now open.

Read on and find out how to collaborate with us to develop resources under this program

Our Instructor Development Committee has a strong team of seven to lead its activities over the next year

Here is a set of questions we hope to discuss on Wednesday, 26 August 2020 at 21h00 UTC and Thursday, 27 August 2020 at 15h00 UTC. Join us!

¡Traduciendo!

Looking to host a Carpentries Community Discussion?

We are looking for the next Maintainer Community Lead!

We have hosted more than 50 pre- and post-workshop discussions between January and June 2020

Twenty-three new Lesson Maintainers badged

We are starting a monthly community call for Instructors in the midwest US.

Global Capacity Building for Inclusive Computational Communities

In this post, csvconf.com organisers detail how they moved an in-person community conference online in a few weeks, and the lessons they picked up along the way

The Carpentries Core Team advocates for empathy, empowerment, and equity

Please join The Carpentries Core Team for a monthly community call centred around online workshops

Moving our local Carpentries socials to a virtual space

Here's a summary of three themed discussions on teaching git and GitHub from December 2019

Here are the measures Core Team members are taking to support each other and our community during this time

Wondering what lists to subscribe to in The Carpentries TopicBox? Read this helpful guide by Angelique Trusler

We are pleased to share a resource designed to guide community members as they organise local and regional Carpentries events, whether online or in-person.

Welcoming new and existing Lesson Maintainers to the community!

This post is the second in our round of invaluable community-contributed tips for teaching online.

This post shares a first round of community-contributed tips on teaching online. Have a read and consider contributing more tips for teaching and learning online.

We are closely monitoring the ongoing and evolving global Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, and the potential impact for our community around the world.

We will continue building capacity - together.

Join us in welcoming Angela Li as our Maintainer Community Lead!

Three regional Carpentries community events will take place this year. Read on and find out if one is scheduled in your region and how to participate in an event near you.

Submit your application to receive financial aid to attend CarpentryCon from June 29 to July 1, 2020

Tracy Teal is moving on from The Carpentries, Kari Jordan will serve as Acting Executive Director

We appreciate the enthusiasm and creativity with which community members communicate in, about and in support of The Carpentries

We are taking time throughout December 2019 to reflect, write and share our community green stickies for the year

A collaborative translation of lessons into Japanese is underway, find out what we have learned and how to help

Thanks to our community's input, we are excited to share The Carpentries' nine core values

Dr. Angelique Trusler joins The Carpentries as Regional Consultant for Southern Africa.

Amy Hodge reflects on what it means to serve on the Executive Council and explains why you should apply

This post by CarpentryCon 2020 Task Force members offers tips for submitting a session proposal

We have received $2.65 million from Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to support our work over the next three years.

A growing community is gaining momentum to bring Software Carpentry to Japan

Our vision is to be the leading inclusive community teaching computing and data skills.

Building Community through Membership: 2019 Member Survey Results and Member Organisation Council Meetings

This October, read and suggest relevant tags for posts published on The Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry and Software Carpentry blogs

In this post, Chris Erdmann reflects on his time as Library Carpentry Community & Development Director ahead of his last day.

Prevent burnout by being welcoming and sharing experiences in everyday conversations.

Here's what The Carpentries team accomplished in Q2 and Q3 2019, and a look into work that will continue in Q4 2019.

Community members gather to discuss Carpentries successes and challenges in Dunedin, New Zealand

The Community Champions discussed how they grow their local communities

Find out more about The Carpentries values project. Answer three questions and help us articulate our community values

Read about activities the Australian Research Data Commons is embarking on to support The Carpentries

In this post, Malvika Sharan shares her personal notes from June 2019's CarpentryConnect in Manchester

Anonymous form open for incidents outside CoCc mandate

Join our August 28 2019 community call to help us build a diverse community of preprint reviewers

We are releasing our community communications plan and introducing how-to guides for community-led communications

Phil Reed shares lessons from a recent R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis workshop

To charge (a minimal) workshop fee or not to charge? That is the question

A place where everyone can come together to share topics and learn from each other

Here's what The Carpentries team is working on in the second quarter of 2019.

A summary of our community call on Carpentries activities in Australia

Join the Community Discussion 21-22 May for Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Planning

Looking to host a Carpentries Community Discussion? See Martin Dreyer's pointers

Our Instructor Development Committee has a strong team of six to lead its activities over the next year

An update on what the Library Carpentry Maintainers have been working on since January 2019.

Response to DataCamp blog post

What's new at ORCID? Learn about new features available via ORCID's API 3.0 to connect and share more of your own and community's contributions.

The Group will advise on ways to foster greater participation in the Library Carpentry community

Boats, Bridges, Balloons - Here's why and how we communicate at The Carpentries

Interested in leading the Instructor Development Committee? Learn more about the Committee and read some advice from a former Co-Chair.

Join us for a discussion of past, present and future Carpentries activities in Australia

Coding with Crostini the ChromeOS Linux App

How to connect with your Regional Coordinator

Meet the NZ Regional Coordinator

Here's why you should attend #ccmcr19 from June 25 to 27, 2019.

Building the local South African Carpentries community through a CarpentryConnect.

Nos complace anunciar una nueva lección traducida por la comunidad: Análisis y visualización de datos usando Python

We are excited to announce our newest community-driven lesson translation: Análisis y visualización de datos usando Python

News on Library Carpentry’s Lesson Program Implementation with The Carpentries

Instructor Training Checkout requirement to include Community Discussions

Thanks to the award winners, sorted by surname, Tim Dennis, Margareth Gfrerer, Toby Hodges, Fotis Psomopoulos, and Malvika Sharan.

What other ways are there to participate in The Carpentries community?

Deadline is next week. Do not miss the opportunity to recognise members contribution

Mentoring gives me joy, and here’s why.

Keeping Your Workshop Organised

2018 Community Service Awards - Call for Nominations

Join the CarpentryCon Task Force

How do you deliver exercises

From zero to … here

How your library can be a hub for data science activities in your community.

UO and OSU Library Carpentry report

Executive Council moves to eliminate Self-Organised workshop fees

Hosting discussion sessions is a great way to expand your network

Hosting discussion sessions is a great way to expand your network

Inaugural Conference a Big Success

Leveraging the power of community

Find all the latest news on CarpentryCon 2018

Announcing Chris Erdmann as the new Library Carpentry Community and Development Director, starting 4 May, 2018.

To be held in Dublin from 30 May - 1 June, 2018, CarpentryCon will be three action-packed days of skill ups, breakout sessions, talks, social events, and workshops.