| |  | | Carpentries Clippings, 26 October#Carpentries25: Latin America Spotlight |  | Carpentries Instructors at a workshop during csv,conf,v7 in Buenos Aires in April 2023. Photo supplied by Yanina Bellini Saibene (not featured). A selfie taken by Macarena Quiroga with Sergio García Mora behind and (clockwise) Virginia Garcia Alonso, Noelia Stetie, Pao Corrales, Irene Ramos and Andrea Gomez. | | Gratitude of the Month | | This month for the #Carpentries25 celebrations we shine a spotlight on the accomplishments of our subcommunities in Latin America! Gratitude goes to our facilitator Yanina Bellini Saibene and guests—Nelly Sélem Mojica, Rainere Silva and Pao Corrales—who will be participating at the #Carpentries25 bilingual (English and Spanish) spotlight event on 30 October at 14h00 UTC! |
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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
Take 5 minutes to complete our annual community survey We are launching an annual community survey to inform the work of the Core Team in 2024 and beyond. We ask everyone who participated in the community within the last year to please take 5 minutes to provide feedback on your experience. This will help us better understand the benefits you get from your participation and to inform areas of improvement. Responses should be received by 12 November, when we will be closing the survey. All the collected responses will be summarised and shared with the community in an annual report describing community health.
Take the anonymous survey.
#Carpentries25 Anniversary Celebration SeriesThe next event in our series celebrating our 25th anniversary is next week! Join us on Monday 30 October 14:00 PM UTC (find your time; add to calendar) as we spotlight our subcommunities in Latin America. The event will be hosted in both Spanish and English. Please note that this event will be in a different Zoom room than our previous events to support interpretation services. Connection information can be found in the Etherpad and the community calendar event listing.
Please also join us for our last two spotlight events:
If you were not able to join us for our earlier events, we invite you to check out the recordings on YouTube. Be sure to register to receive communications as the festivities continue.
Member Council Quarterly Meeting The next Member Council meeting is scheduled for 21-22 November. If you are a representative from a member organisation, be sure to mark your calendars to attend.
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.
Executive Council
The Carpentries Board of Directors: Nominations Nominations for community-elected positions of The Carpentries Board of Directors close on October 27, 2023, Anywhere on Earth (AoE).
If you have experience in: Auditing (i.e., risk management, financial reporting, audit process, monitoring compliance with laws and regulations) Finance (i.e., oversight of an annual budget) Governance and Personnel (i.e., creation and implementation of sound compensation, personnel policies and practices or Board efficacy, composition, onboarding and recruitment) Programs (i.e., Carpentries Lesson Program governance, advising on metrics for programmatic outcomes or making recommendations to strengthen programs and services)
… you are encouraged to complete the nomination form. Check out the recently published blog post for more information.
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 curriculum@carpentries.org to receive a notification when training opens.
Workshop Administration Team
November Instructors Meeting Carpentries Instructors, be sure to sign up on the Etherpad for the next Instructor Meeting, Tuesday, 14 November 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 Additional Resources Needed to be an Effective Instructor. We want to hear from our Instructors what additional resources we can provide to help the with teaching Carpentries Workshops!
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. | | 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 Etherpads. To request an accommodation to attend a community session, please fill out the accommodation request form. 1 November 2 November 3 November 7 November 9 November 14 November 15 November 23 November 27 November 29 November 30 November
| | What you may have missed on the Carpentries blog | The Carpentries Retires its X/Twitter Accounts and Facebook Profile | As of 20 October 2023, The Carpentries will no longer be active or engaging on any of its accounts on X (formerly known as Twitter). And for the purposes of purpose of realigning and streamlining our communications, we have also decided to retire our Facebook page. |
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| | Collaborative Lesson Development Training | The Carpentries has launched a new program of Collaborative Lesson Development Training! We've opened up the program for registrations from collaborators who have an idea for a lesson that they want to begin developing together. |
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| | The Curriculum and Trainers for Collaborative Lesson Development Training | A follow-up blog post on the recently launched Collaborative Lesson Development Training program. This blog takes a deeper look at the content of the training program, as well as the Lesson Developer Trainers who will be teaching it. |
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| | Opportunities and Challenges in Localisation: The Carpentries Perspective | In this first contribution by our Director of Community, Alycia Crall, to the "Opportunities and Challenges in Localisation" collaborative blog series curated by Batool Almarzouq of The Turing Way, we look at The Carpentries community's efforts and perspectives on localisation. |
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| | Thank You to our Regional Coordinators | In 2021, we announced the development of the Carpentries Community Development Program, which merges the role of Regional Coordinators, Community Facilitators, and Champions into one role as Community Coordinators. As such, the Regional Coordinator role has ben phased out. |
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| | | Community Opportunity PostingsThe Center for High Throughput Computing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a Research Computing Facilitator. Applications close on 8 November 2023.
Virginia Tech University Libraries is looking for a Metadata Consultant for the Humanities. This is a faculty position with possibilities to convert to continued appointment track (tenure-equivalent). They also have a strong and well-supported Carpentries program coordinated by the University Libraries. Review of applications begins on 9 November 2023.
The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), an interdisciplinary research institute within the University of Colorado Boulder, invites applications for a tenure-track faculty member at the Assistant Professor level specialising in environmental data science. The position is rostered in CIRES, with tenure and teaching responsibilities in the Department of Geography in the College of Arts and Sciences. For full consideration, please apply no later than 11 November 2023.
The College of Science and Mathematics (CSM) at the University of Massachusetts Boston invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the general area of Data Science, to begin on 1 September 2024. Open until closed.
Northwestern University IT Research Computing and Data Services is looking for a Data Management Specialist to join their growing team. The Data Management Specialist is responsible for the development and implementation of secure and efficient research data management workflows. Open until closed.
Atorus Research is looking for an R Instructor to join the Atorus Academy training team. This individual will be responsible for conducting live web sessions of the Atorus Academy curriculum, as well as developing new training content for both live sessions and the Atorus Academy website content, including e-learnings. Presumably open until filled.
The Community for Rigor (C4R) based out of the Kording Lab at the University of Pennsylvania is hiring a Technical Lead responsible for developing and enacting a strategy for the development, production, and maintenance of our educational platform. The incumbent will lead a team of two to five developers to build their platform and technical infrastructure for educational content using web technologies such as HTML, CSS, Javascript/Typescript, a JS framework such as React, and Python (Jupyter, Flask/FastAPI).
2i2c are looking for a Delivery Manager who will serve as a key facilitator in ensuring the successful and efficient delivery of their product. Acting as a servant leader, the incumbent will guide their engineering team, promote collaboration, and eliminate obstacles to deliver high-quality results aligned with their mission and goals. Review of applications began after 20 October 2023, but the position is open until closed.
The Open Source Program Office (OSPO) at the George Washington University, DC is still 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 still 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.
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 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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