Carpentries Clippings, 24 February 2021

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Community News & Updates from Our Committees / Task Forces

African Carpentries Community Monthly Meetups
The African Carpentries Community monthly meetups have been running since 2017. Here we discuss topics that are of interest to our instructors in the African context, including available resources, opportunities, events, and more. Join our first session, on 25 February 2021 12:00 - 13:00 SAST/10:00-11:00 UTC. You can signup on our Etherpad.

Skill-up: Serah Rono

Organising virtual community events with accessibility in mind
In this session, we will talk about accessibility with a focus on community events like the workshops you run. We will discuss the responsibility that we as event organisers have towards event attendees, as well as opportunities and challenges that we have faced or can expect to tackle as we prepare to host events, and the resources available to help us as we go along.

What you may have missed on the blog and mailing lists

Introducing R Lessons in Japanese
In this post, members of The Carpentries community who have created a Japanese language team share progress on translation of lesson materials.

Community Opportunity Postings

• Lambda School Opportunities

  • Lambda School - Instructor Manager

  • Lambda School - Associate Instructor, Data Science

• PhD Scholarship at Macquarie Uni, Sydney: 
  Likely to be digital archaeology, digital history, software development, and all sorts of data work https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/scholarships/scholarship-search/data/history,-heritage-and-environmental-change-in-a-deindustrialised-landscape2

• Union of Concerned Scientists
  Community & Partnerships Organizer 

• EcoHealth Alliance
  Data Librarian/Analyst 

• The Centre for Humanitarian Data
  Data Fellows Programme 

• Code for Science & Society’s Event Fund
  Code for Science & Society has now put out  its second call for applications from open data science communities to apply for grants to organise their virtual events! Grant awards range from $5K-20K. Read more and apply for the grant here.

• Join our various mailing lists

• Going to a workshop or conference? Add the details to our events etherpad and meet other Carpenters.

• Twitter- Software Carpentry /Data Carpentry / Library Carpentry /  The Carpentries

• Slack

• GitHub-Software Carpentry /Data Carpentry / Library Carpentry /The Carpentries