Carpentries Clippings, 14 July 2021

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Community News & Updates from Our Committees / Task Forces

In-Person Workshop Survey
Please consider filling out this survey as we begin collecting data to help us plan  to resume in-person workshops. The purpose of this survey is to help us gauge different scenarios and possible workflow changes we will need to set in place to ensure the safety of all participants in a Carpentries workshop. The survey should take no longer than 5-7 minutes to complete. This survey will be active from July 12 - July 30.

Registration for CarpentryConnect South Africa 2021 now open!
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. Registration and More Information

Applications for the current round of Carpentries Maintainer Onboarding end this week!
The Carpentries is preparing to onboard the next round of Maintainers. Applications are due July 16, 2021. Please read this blog post for more information and to apply.

What You May Have Missed on The Carpentries Blog

Wrapping Up the Carpentries Python Curriculum Project
This blog post is about Carpentries Instructor Vini Salazar's work and accomplishments with regard to the Carpentries Python Curriculum

On the governance of The Carpentries
Written by Lex Nederbragt and the Executive Council, this blog post clarifies the roles and responsibilities of The Carpentries Executive Council

Reflecting on our first Alpha Test of the Lesson Infrastructure Redesign
Written by Carpentries Core Team member Zhian Kamvar this blog post is about how we are working to ensure our redesign is friendly and usable for maintainers at all skill levels.

Community Opportunity Postings

• The Center for High Throughput Computing at the University of Wisconsin - Madison is hiring a Research Computing Facilitator.

• Grant Opportunity: The Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) Women in Research Essential Grant Writing Skills Workshop. | Opportunities For Africans

• The Carpentries is looking for a contract UI Developer to work on the next iteration of the lesson template

• Code for Science & Society has several open positions including:

  • Event Fund Program Manager

  • Operations Manager

  • Technical Support Manager - OpenReview

• Open Research Funders Group seeks a Civic Science Fellow to help develop, launch, and oversee an Open & Equitable Model Funding Program to address inequities in the research community.

• Stanford University in the US is hiring a Cartographic Project Metadata Librarian

• Carnegie Mellon University in the US is hiring several Library Positions

• TU Delft in the Netherlands is hiring a Data Steward

• The Oak Ridge National Laboratory is hiring a Neutron Data and Computing Program Manager

• Data Dryad is looking for an Executive Director

• Clark Atlanta University in the US is hiring for the following positions:

  • Assistant/Associate Professor of Machine Learning(007-21)

  • Assistant/Associate Professor: Cyber Physical Systems(085-20)

  • Assistant Professor: Math(035-21)

  • Assistant Professor: Math II(036-21)

  • Assistant/Associate Professor of Decision Science and Supply Chain Management(022-20)

• Morehouse College in the US is hiring an Assistant Professor of Data Science/Analytics (Tenure Track)

• The Morehouse School of Medicine is hiring a Director I, Data Analytics and Integrity

• North Carolina State University in the US is hiring a Research Solutions Consultant.

• The Harvard University, School of Public Health is accepting applications for a Research Associate - Bioinformatics Trainer and Analyst.

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