| |  | | Carpentries Clippings, 28 September#Carpentries25: Africa Spotlight |  | The first South African CarpentryConnect hosted in Johannesburg in 2018. Photo credit: Bianca Peterson. | | Gratitude of the Month | | This month, we shone a spotlight on the accomplishments of our subcommunities in Africa! Gratitude goes to our guests—Ruth Nanjala, Margareth Gfrerer, Caroline Fadeke Ajilogba, and Martin Dreyer—for participating at the #Carpentries25 spotlight event on the 28th of September! |
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| Do you have a gratitude to share? We would love to feature it. Email community@carpentries.org to have it posted to our newsletter. | | Updates from the Core Team
Community Development Team
#Carpentries25 Anniversary Celebration SeriesThanks to everyone who attended today’s event in our series to celebrate The Carpentries 25th anniversary! If you were not able to join us for our earlier events, we invite you to check out the recordings on YouTube: launch event; spotlight event on New Zealand and Australia. The festivities will be ongoing until the end of the year, so be sure to register to receive communications. The next event in our series will be spotlighting the origins and activities of our subcommunities in Latin America. Join us on 30 October 14:00 PM UTC (find your time; add to calendar).
Monthly Welcome SessionsNew to the community? Join us for an upcoming Welcome Session! These sessions provide onboarding for new Instructors and are ideal for anyone curious to learn more about The Carpentries community. This is also a great place to re-onboard if you haven’t been engaged with us for a while! Check out upcoming dates and times and sign up to attend on the Etherpad. If you are interested in serving as a Welcome Session Host, please email community@carpentries.org.
Director of Community Office HoursJoin our Director of Community for office hours next month! You can drop in at any point during the hour to ask a question or bring up any topic for discussion.
Curriculum Team
Collaborative Lesson Development Training Program In the second half of this year we will be expanding access to our Collaborative Lesson Development Training program. This is a three-day training curriculum teaching good practices in lesson design and development, and open source collaboration skills, using The Carpentries Workbench. The target audience is Carpentries Instructors with an idea for a new lesson they would like to create, especially if that lesson is intended for short-format training (e.g. part or all of a two-day workshop). If you are interested in taking part in the training, please email ebecker@carpentries.org to receive a notification when training opens.
Workshop Administration Team
Monthly Instructors Meeting Carpentries Instructors, be sure to sign up on the Etherpad for the next Instructor Meeting, Tuesday, 10 October at 15:00 UTC (find your time; add to calendar) and 21:00 UTC (find your time; add to calendar).
This month's discussion topic will be Updates to The Carpentries Workbench. We will have our Lesson Infrastructure Developer, Zhian Kamvar, joining us. Be sure to bring any questions and feedback to the meetings!
You can add your name to any of the segments you would like to contribute: Pre/Post workshop discussion. To learn more, read the blog post.
Instructor Training Team
Reminder: Changes to Instructor Checkout Another reminder that as of 14 August, the requirements for trainees to complete certification as a Carpentries Instructor have changed. Everyone trained since 1 January 2022 may elect to complete their certification using the new rules. For details, check out our blog post! | | Highlights from the Community Calendar
Community Sessions 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 Sessions that may pique your interest and are in your time zone. Sign up to attend on the Community Sessions or Welcome Sessions Etherpad. 3 October 4 October 5 October 9 October 11 October 12 October 18 October 23 October 25 October 26 October 30 October 25th Anniversary Celebration Series: Latin America Spotlight Event at 14:00 UTC (find your time; add to calendar) Regional US Midwest Community Discussion at 16:00 UTC (find your time; add to calendar) Enseñar en comunidad 21:00 UTC (encuentra tu tiempo; añadir al calendario) El objetivo de esta sesión es compartir experiencias enseñando, no importa si diste muchas clases y talleres o es la primera vez que vas a enseñar. Este es el lugar pedir consejos, comentar sobre nuevas ideas o cosas que te gustaría probar o simplemente charlar sobre cómo enseñamos.
| | What you may have missed on the Carpentries blog | Call for Candidates for The Carpentries Board of Directors | 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 27 October 2023, anywhere on Earth. |
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| | The Carpentries Takes a Giant Leap Towards Independence | The Executive Council of The Carpentries is planning our transition from fiscal sponsorship to operating as an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organisation. In this blog post, our Executive Director, Dr Kari L. Jordan, shares these plans and invites you to join us on this journey. |
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| | #Carpentries25 Testimonial Series: Jean Baptiste Fankam Fankam | In this contribution to the #Carpentries25 Testimonial Series, 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. |
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| | RE-SURFACED: With Thanks from Carpentries Instructors in Africa | A blog post from the end of 2019, documenting and celebrating the growth and achievements of The Carpentries community in Africa, including the appointment of Dr. Angelique Trusler (now the African Capacity Development Manager) then as the Regional Consultant for Southern Africa to support the team of volunteer Instructors across the continent. |
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| | | Community Opportunity PostingsThe Australian National University’s (ANU) National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), the national HPC provider, encourage candidates with a strong programming background, with or without scientific experience, to apply for the position of Research Data Informatics Specialist. Closing date is 1 October 2023.
The Software Sustainability Institute is hiring a Research Software Community Manager at the University of Manchester to help change the culture of research software practice and reward in academic research and beyond. Closing date is 3 October 2023.
The Stone Living Lab at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, is looking for a Data Manager. This is a grant funded position of 9 months duration from start date with renewal for a full year and for future years contingent on funding. Closing date is 3 October 2023, Eastern Daylight Time.
The New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) hosted by Waipapa Taumata Rau (the University of Auckland) seeks to employ a Research Communities Advisor. This is a critical role within NeSI enabling various partnerships into the research sector. Closing date is 8 October 2023.
The University of St Thomas, a private Catholic university located in the twin cities of Minneapolis and St Paul in Minnesota, is hiring for one tenure-track Assistant Professor position in data science to begin fall 2024. Review of applications will begin 8 October 2023, and continue until the position is filled.
The Socio-Environmental Knowledge Commons (SEEKCommons) is seeking 9 fellows for the inaugural 2024 SEEKCommons Fellowship, running from January to October 2024. SEEKCommons is an initiative to bring graduate students and early-career researchers with new perspectives and voices to socio-environmental research with open technologies. The application form closes 15 October 2023.
The Wilson Center Science and Technology Innovation Program is teaming up with the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) and the Center for Open Science (COS) to launch the Open Science Policy Sprint to crowdsource high-quality ideas for federal open science policy that are innovative, specific, and feasible. For selected ideas, contributors will have the opportunity to collaborate with this team and external experts to refine those ideas and present them to policy leaders. Submissions are due by 23 October 2023.
pyOpenSci is hiring a Community Manager. Candidates must be eligible for employment in the United States. This position will oversee numerous aspects of pyOpenSci’s community building efforts including managing social media, their Slack, and writing blog posts. It will also be heavily involved in their DEIA related activities. Presumably open until filled.
The Open Source Program Office (OSPO) at the George Washington University, DC, is looking for a Director to lead the OSPO. This is a 2-year, grant funded role. Reporting to the Associate Dean for Student Success and Scholarly Technology, the the Director will be responsible for promoting the development of open source projects to faculty, researchers, staff, and students at the university. Presumably open until filled.
The US Research Software Engineer Association’s (US-RSE) is still looking for a Community Manager to support its members in building their rapidly growing community of research software engineers and in achieving the other components of US-RSE’s mission. This is a full-time, remote position for an initial two-year term. Presumably open until filled.
The University of Arizona Libraries is hiring for a Business Informatics faculty position. The incumbent will develop a program supporting the business informatics ecosystem through a variety of formats, providing technical support and training in the use of tools and workflows to support scholarship in business-related data analysis, management, and visualization. Target hire date is 4 March 2024 and this posting will remain open until filled, but the first review date for submissions was 27 September 2023.
Carnegie Mellon University Libraries is hiring a Research Data Services Librarian and a Social Sciences Librarian. These are faculty positions suitable for candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through their research, teaching and/or service. Open until filled, but applications received by 25 September 2023 will be given first consideration.
IPUMS is hiring a Data Analyst interested in international census data to join their diverse team of research and information technology professionals. They are looking for a technically-minded person who enjoys working with data and has the ability to learn new skills and knowledge quickly. The current opening is on the team that creates the International Historical Geographic Information System. Presumably open until filled.
IPUMS is developing a U.S. record linkage database of unprecedented scale, spanning 1850 to the present, and including information on hundreds of millions of persons from censuses, surveys, vital statistics, and administrative records. They are seeking a Senior Data Analyst to be the point person for this project. Presumably open until filled.
The Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (CMSE) at Michigan State University is still inviting applications for several Fixed-term Assistant Professor positions with a starting date of Fall 2023. Open until closed.
University of California, Davis is still recruiting multiple postdoctoral scholars in translational data science to participate in DataLab’s 2-year TRANSCEND Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Start dates are expected between September 2023 and January 2024. The positions are open until filled, but initial review of applications received before 23 July 2023 has begun.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, is still seeking a Research Computing Facilitator to provide facilitation, documentation, training, and service request support for Research Computing clients related to scaling computational research workflows on high-performance computing (HPC) resources. The position is hybrid eligible. Presumably open until filled.
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