Updates from the Core Team
Executive Council
The quarter 1 meeting of the Executive Council (EC) takes place 21 February at 20:00 UTC. During this meeting the EC will review the end-of-year (2022) financials for the organisation, discuss upcoming strategic plan activities, and select new Officers and Standing Committee members. For more information, minutes of the quarterly Executive Council meetings are published in this public repository.
Community Development Team
Community Development Program Quarterly Calls
The Community Development Program quarterly calls have been scheduled! The first will be 28 March, 14:00 and 23:00 UTC. Find dates and times and visit our Etherpad to sign up to attend.
Director of Community Office Hours
The Director of Community is hosting office hours this year where you can bring your questions or provide feedback. Each month will have a theme or primary topic of discussion, but you are welcome to bring any topic of interest to the calls. The topic for February will be translation. Dates/times for February include:
Curriculum Team
Four lesson repositories have entered the next stage of beta testing for The Carpentries Workbench. The repositories for the Instructor Training curriculum, and three Data Carpentry lessons (Análisis y visualización de datos usando Python, Introduction to Geospatial Raster and Vector Data with R, and R for Social Scientists) have now adopted the new lesson infrastructure, and releases were made to Zenodo to preserve the last version of the lessons using the old infrastructure.
The usual lesson URLs will provide the lesson websites with the familiar layout during this next stage of the Beta Phase, but from now on any new contributions to the lesson repositories will be made to the new folder structure and adjusted file formats. The new lesson website layout will become the default for these four lesson sites when the Beta Phase ends in April.
Visit the Workbench homepage for more details about the Beta Phase and what is coming next.
Library Carpentry Curriculum Advisory Committee
Members of the Library Carpentry Curriculum Advisory Committee will be collaborating with the Curriculum Team to develop Instructor Onboarding materials for the lesson program. Curriculum Onboarding materials are intended to provide Instructors with an overview of the curriculum and prepare them to teach it for the first time. While completing this project, the Curriculum Advisors will pilot a new template and workflow for Instructor Onboarding presentations, in anticipation of a wider effort to provide onboarding materials for Instructors across all of The Carpentries official curricula in 2023.
Instructor Training Team
Have you been waiting for an opportunity to be certified to teach Instructor Training? Watch our channels! Instructor Trainer applications will be opening soon. Contact the Instructor Training Team with questions or to request notification when applications open.
Membership Team
The Carpentries will be holding two meetings of the Member Council on 28 February / 1 March. Member Council meetings are an opportunity for Member orgs to come together and share ideas and tips for building Carpentries community locally. The Carpentries staff will also present a quarterly update on new programs, opportunities, and other topics of interest to Member organisations. Sign up to join on our Etherpad.
Workshop Administration Team
Calling all Instructors! Mark your calendar for the 1st monthly Instructor Community Call. The Workshop Administration Team will begin hosting monthly Community Calls for Instructors every 2nd Tuesday of the month at 3pm UTC and 9pm UTC. The first meeting will be 14 February. During this call we will share updates, tips and most of all gather feedback from Instructors. Please sign up on the etherpad to let us know you are coming!
