CarpentryCon @ Home Updates
The proposal submission period for CarpentryCon @ Home 2022 closed 12 June. Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal. The registration date for the conference is approaching soon
To follow along with the latest updates for CarpentryCon @ home, visit the CarpentryCon Twitter or CarpentryCon Website.
Community News & Updates
Join Us in Welcoming our new Director of Fundraising!
We are so excited to share news that our Core Team is growing! This week we welcomed Amanda Steele - The Carpentries new Director of Fundraising. In her new role, Amanda will set annual revenue and fundraising goals by identifying, cultivating, building and solidifying relationships with new and established donors and coordinating fundraising campaigns.
Read this blog post learn more about Amanda’s experience and why she is looking forward to working with us.
Current Opportunities to Engage with The Carpentries
There are several current options to volunteer with The Carpentries and help us in working towards our mission.
Carpentries Workbench: Beta Phase Testing - We are beta testing The Carpentries Workbench and are looking for maintainers to volunteer to assist with beta testing. Learn more.
Data Carpentry Curriculum Advisory - In the coming weeks, we will begin the search for Curriculum Advisors to support three Data Carpentry curricula: Social Sciece, Ecology, and Image Processing with Python. Read more about the role of Curriculum Advisors within the community, and watch out for a full announcement coming soon.
Centrally Organised Workshops - The Workshop Administration Team is always looking for certified Instructors to teach Carpentries workshops. If you are interested in volunteering as an Instructor please add your name to the signup sheet. Please use the tabs at the bottom of the signup sheet to add your name in any region. Learn more about the benefits to teaching a Carpentries workshop.
Tips for successfully registering a Self-Organised workshop
Use the Self-Organised workshop submission form to register your workshop: AMY: Submit a Self-Organised workshop (carpentries.org)
Submit your form four weeks before the workshop start date. This will give the Workshop Administration Team time to receive and enter it into The Carpentries database, follow up if needed, and schedule the workshop pre-survey result links to go out
Ensure the workshop slug is in The Carpentries format: YYYY-MM-DD-organisation-online or YYYY-MM-DD-organisation
Add the workshop location, including the latitude and longitude
Highlights from the Community Calendar
Community Discussions and Themed Discussions in The Carpentries are a great way to interact with, learn from and share your knowledge and experiences with other Carpentries community members from around the world. Subscribe to our community calendar for updates on community calls that may pique your interest and are in a befitting hour depending on your timezone and schedule. You can also watch some of our recorded community calls on our YouTube channel.
22 June
23 June
Africa Region Community Call 10am UTC
Themed Community Discussion w/ Brynn Elliott, Accessibility Manager 3pm and 11pm UTC
Brynn will be leading the call to discuss development of the new toolkit of IDEAS (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility Strategies), with a focus on accessibility. During these sessions, we want to hear from the community what wisdom you want to share and what topics would be helpful for you.
27 June
Incubator Lesson Spotlight
The Incubator Lesson Spotlight is a regular feature in The Carpentries blog and Carpentries Clippings newsletter, highlighting the great work our community is doing to develop new lessons in The Carpentries Incubator. Developers of any lesson in the Incubator are encouraged to submit details about their material for inclusion in the series.
This edition’s featured lesson is Introduction to Deep Learning
