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The Carpentries has decided to postpone CarpentryCon in 2025 until our transition to operating as an independent non-profit organisation is complete and our finances stabilised.

Join the first AU-Aotearoa CarpentryConnect in May 2024. Submissions close 22 April.

The redesigned lesson will replace the existing version in the curriculum in July.

Discover how a global code sprint is driving the evolution of AI education in libraries and shaping the future of the GLAM community.

The Carpentries is preparing to onboard the next round of Maintainers. Applications due 5 April.

The three lesson programs' blog posts have been merged into The Carpentries blog

In response to recent changes to The Carpentries Core Team, the Software Carpentry LPGC announces changes to their workflow and governance.

The report summarising community members’ responses to the inaugural Carpentries community survey is out!

A peer-reviewed lesson, based on 2017 paper of the same name, has been added to The Carpentries Lab

Submit your session proposals for CarpentryConnect and BioNT Community Event - Heidelberg 2024!

How you can help us continue to support open peer review of lessons.

Let's celebrate diversity and break language barriers.

In a significant move towards autonomy, The Carpentries streamlines its governance structure to benefit our global community.

The Core Team announces which services to the community it will continue to support and which initiatives will continue through community-led support.

Meet our team of nine at The Carpentries and learn how they will continue to support you.

Announcing a community event in Heidelberg, Germany, 12-14 November 2024.

You're invited to a code sprint for the Intro to AI for GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) Library Carpentry Lesson on January 31, 2024!

Support for Glosario, The Carpentries’ open-source, multilingual glossary for computing terms

Join us in celebrating the legacy and impact of the Core Team members who transitioned out of The Carpentries

Four community members were elected to serve a three-year term on The Carpentries Board of Directors

A tree does not move unless there is wind. - African Proverb

Ethan White shares his journey at The Carpentries on our 25th Anniversary

Introducing Version 2.0

Our community is resilient and can come together during challenging moments.

How my time and financial contributions support our community and the organisation’s mission

Updates to instructor view, doi badges, and more

Help shape The Carpentries -- Information about Community Elections for the Board of Directors

Carpentries Community Session Recap

Announcing our new Maintainer Community Lead

Announcing The Carpentries departure from X (formerly known as Twitter) and Facebook

A deeper look at the content of the new training program and the people who will be teaching it

Announcing the launch of a new Carpentries training program!

The Carpentries outlines its community's efforts in localisation.

Phasing out the Regional Coordinator role

Recently badged Carpentries Instructor and Maintainer, Jean Baptiste Fankam Fankam, shares his journey at The Carpentries on our 25th Anniversary

Nominations are now open for community-elected positions.

We are looking for the next Maintainer Community Lead!

The Carpentries is planning our transition to operate as an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organisation

NeSI celebrates being a Carpentries champion on our 25th Anniversary

Reflections from the community on our new lesson infrastructure

Starting 14 August, 2023 (today!), there are more options available for trainees to complete the process of certifying as a Carpentries Instructor!

Instructor, Lesson Maintainer, and Regional Coordinator for Australia, Damien Irving, shares his journey with The Carpentries.

Piloting Meal Reimbursements for Instructors teaching online Centrally-Organised Workshops.

The Carpentries is announcing a call for Web Development Services.

Help provide leadership for Data Carpentry’s Genomics curriculum. Apply by 21 August

Meet the people joining our community to teach Instructor Training!

Current Executive Council member, Jannetta Steyn, shares her journey with The Carpentries.

The Carpentries turns 25 Years! #Carpentries25

Trialing a reimagined version of the popular Data Carpentry lesson: Data Analysis and Visualization in R for Ecologists.

Join us in sharing the contributions and impact the community has made over the years.

The Financial and Annual Reports for the 2022 Year are Now Available

Transitioning and Adapting to New Challenges

Join members of The Carpentries Executive Council to discuss outcomes from the Q2 meeting

The Carpentries welcomes Oscar Masinyana, Communications Manager

Community leaders who will guide project strategy for Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry, and Software Carpentry

Everything you need to get involved and make Carpentries lessons easier to teach.

EC members reflect on how to best support The Carpentries as a multicultural organisation by expanding our thinking and discussing power and privilege.

It was helpful that we had booked a lab in a building which has a backup generator

Nineteen new Lesson Maintainers badged

Introducing New Community Programming Offerings

Community recognition and appreciation, automation, lesson development training, and improved accessibility. Progress towards The Carpentries Strategic Plan for 2020-2025

A community-wide event to update, expand, and improve guidance provided to Instructors in lessons

Final preparations are underway

Prepare for transition to The Workbench in May

A peer-reviewed Metagenomics curriculum has been added to The Carpentries Lab

Join members of The Carpentries Executive Council to discuss outcomes from the Q1 meeting

Meet the representatives making decisions for our Instructor Trainer community in 2023

A look back at styles

Calling ALL Instructors, Experienced Instructors and New Instructors

The Carpentries develops an Accessibility Statement!

Upcoming changes to professional development and community building offerings

Read about our plans to improve Instructor onboarding and make it easier to teach our curricula.

The Carpentries is preparing to onboard the next cohort of Maintainers. Applications due March 8th.

Stage 2 of the Beta Phase is Underway

Get certified to teach Instructor Training with The Carpentries!

Updates on the Community Development Program

Announcing the stable release of a new curriculum teaching image processing skills. Sign up to host a workshop today!

The Carpentries welcomes Eli Chadwick, Information Technology Developer

Applicants in Mexico, Central America, South America and Southern Africa will receive priority consideration.

Guide the development of Software Carpentry, Library Carpentry, or Data Carpentry

Talisha takes up leadership of the Business Team & Membership Program

Beta Phase to enter stage 2 in February

Results from the Library Carpentry survey

Announcing a bittersweet transition for our friend and colleague

The Carpentries welcomes Rob Davey, Director of Technology

Welcome to 2023 at The Carpentries - A year dedicated to prioritising community health

Join us in welcoming the newly elected Executive Council members!

Ode to Maintainers

Lessons for Librarians in Open Science Principles and Methods

Updates on the The CarpentriesOffline project

The beta stage is extending deadlines

The ARDC’s Liz Stokes spoke to Carpentries workshop instructors and helpers about their reflections on running a workshop on data and software skills with ACEAS scientists.

With support from the community, we added alt text to 55 images across our lessons.

Help shape The Carpentries – Information about Community Elections for the Executive Council

Reenvisioning how we show community appreciation

Strengthening community leadership for Software, Library, and Data Carpentry

Dr. Kelly Barnes moves into Director of Assessment Role.

Minor Delays

A statement from the Community Development Team of The Carpentries

Help test and improve a lesson teaching visualisation with ggplot2

R for Social Scientists and R for Geospatial Data have entered the Beta Phase

R for Ecologists has entered the pre-beta stage

Dates for Beta Phase Announced

Maneesha Sane moves into Deputy Director of Technology Role.

Curriculum Advisors will guide the development of our lessons for Ecology, Image Processing, and Social Science.

Share your thoughts on the purpose, barriers, and how we can make it better.

Nominierungen für Mitglieder, die von der Gemeinde und vom Executive Council gewählt werden, sind möglich

Nominations are now open for community-elected and Council-elected positions

Ya está abierto el llamado a candidaturas para los puestos elegidos por la comunidad y por el Consejo

2023年度カーペントリーエグゼクティブカウンシル候補者募集要項

Accessibility at The Carpentries

Hello Again

In this blog post, the Executive Council Communications Committee highlights events and learnings from the annual Executive Council Retreat

CarpentryCon 2022 starts this week! Here are the Keynote Presentations to be ready for!

Applications received before 25 August at 11:59 PM (anywhere on earth) will receive full consideration.

Workbench Beta on Hold

This blog post is the first of a series to share progress of the CarpentriesOffline project

In this post, we reflect on Dr. François Michonneau’s time at The Carpentries on his last day

Seven new Lesson Maintainers badged

Applications received before 20 July at 11:59 PM (anywhere on earth) will receive full consideration.

Community Discussions Coming Up!

Curriculum Advisors provide high-level leadership for lessons. Apply by 22 July

Help test and improve a lesson teaching researchers skills for reproducible research.

Thirty new Lesson Maintainers badged

Working through chopportunities

The Carpentries welcomes Amanda Steele, Director of Fundraising

Announcing our new Maintainer Community Lead

Working through chopportunities

A strong start to the Beta Phase of The Carpentries Workbench

2021 Financial and Annual Reports Available - A retrospective on all things Carpentries

Host or teach a pilot workshop with a brand new Data Carpentry curriculum

Meet the people guiding development of our Instructor Trainer community

We invite institutions serving underrepresented groups in Central and South America and in Southern Africa to apply for sponsored membership.

Some of the projects Dan has been working on along with what's next for the Maintainer community

The Carpentries is preparing to onboard the next round of Maintainers. Applications due 26 May

Help the community test a new lesson on Deep Learning with Python.

Open Instructor Training is for individual applicants, now prioritised for interest in teaching Centrally-Organised workshops

Initial outline and plan for the Beta Phase of The Carpentries Workbench

Exploring Centrally-Organised workshops and how Instructors reap the benefits!

The Carpentries Community Development Program, efforts towards Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and more progress towards our five-year strategic plan!

An estimated 300GB of mobile data was provided to 71 attendees.

Reporting period: August 2021 to January 2022 (inclusive)

Get involved in the community’s development of a new lesson on how to create interactive data visualizations in Python.

The Carpentries welcomes Brynn Elliott, Accessibility Manager

Nominations are now open for four Executive Council (EC) positions to join for two year terms 2022-2023…

We have launched a GitHub Sponsorship page to fund revisions to several Carpentries lessons.

We are excited to release the first Instructor Training Report!

Meet the amazing people helping to expand our global capacity for Instructor Training

Going forward, the Strategic Plan will be our focus. On 22 April 2022, the EIA Roadmap will be deprecated, but will be kept for historical reasons.

Help us test out a new training curriculum.

Interested in teaching skills at the intersection of data science and astronomy? Sign up for onboarding or to host a workshop today.

Get involved with a community lesson teaching intermediate research software development

King's College London Carpentries Instructor Team share their experience

The (Deputy) Director of Fundraising has a broad responsibility for the development and execution of The Carpentries fund development plan.

The new logo modification policy is the result of a cross-team working group that met in the second half of 2021

Next steps for the Community Development Program

The Carpentries will start publishing peer-reviewed lessons in The Carpentries Lab.

Updates to the Supporting Instructor role

New Curriculum Advisory Committees form to support Software Carpentry and three Data Carpentry curricula.

We announce the first draft of our accessible lesson infrastructure and call for beta testers

The journey from Workshop Administrator to Director of Workshops!

Applications received before 1 February at 11:59 PM (anywhere on earth) will receive full consideration.

We are updating Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions

Get involved in the community’s development of a new lesson to teach Jekyll and GitHub.

Learn more about the transition and how to be engaged

Our new pricing structure for workshops, Instructor Training, and memberships goes into effect today.

Grants, Gratitude, and #GreenStickies: Read on to learn about what The Carpentries will achieve in 2022

Recommendations from the task force on a values alignment due diligence process

We re-evaluate the historical role of the Lesson Infrastructure Community to understand how we can maintain community advocacy in our infrastructure

Please join us in welcoming the new and returning members of the EC.

Reporting period: February 2021 to July 2021 (inclusive)

The Pilot Phase is Ending for Online Workshops at The Carpentries. What comes next?

As part of the checkout process, community members translated more than 300 data science terms into Amharic.

We are taking time throughout December 2021 to reflect, write and share our community green stickies for the year.

The new version of the Instructor Training curriculum has been released

Do you want to teach others to develop skills and confidence as Carpentries Instructors? Become a Trainer!

The Carpentries is updating our pricing for the first time since 2016.

Upcoming Community Discussion will provide multiple ways to engage in next year’s event

Here is an overview of work towards The Carpentries 2020-2025 Strategic Plan for the third quarter of 2021

Help The Carpentries meet our goal during this end of the year fundraising campaign

Questions about Membership? Email membership@carpentries.org

Help shape the Carpentries – Information about Community Elections

Read on to learn about our plans for next year’s CarpentryCon and how to volunteer to support

The Carpentries is piloting a sponsorship program for 2021-2022

A new program to build capacity in community management

Please join us in welcoming Angelique to this new role

Get involved in a Task Force on the official lesson publication process.

For the second year in a row, help us internationalise and expand Glosario, the open source, multilingual glossary of data science terms.

An estimated 300GB of mobile data was provided to 71 attendees.

Get involved in the community’s development of a new lesson on how to create interactive data visualizations in Python.

Nominations are now open for four Executive Council (EC) positions to join for two year terms 2022-2023 effective 1 February, 2022; two community-elected and two Council-elected

We have launched a GitHub Sponsorship page to fund revisions to several Carpentries lessons.

Curriculum Advisors provide high-level leadership for lessons. Apply by September 29

Eighteen new Lesson Maintainers badged

We are excited to release the first Instructor Training Report!

Our next Member Organisation Council meeting will be held 22 September at 15:00 and 23:00 UTC

The Carpentries is looking for members to join the newly reactivated Curriculum Advisory Committees

Get involved in the community’s development of a new lesson to teach Julia to novices.

Feedback is important for The Carpentries’ growth

CarpentryConnect South Africa is a significant milestone in our Strategic Plan for 2020-2025

Introducing Fourteen New Trainers

Read on to learn more about the context and responsibilities of the new Executive Council Standing Committees

Written by Carpentries community members, Research Software Engineering with Python covers several topics related to organising data science projects, testing software and more

The Carpentries Welcomes Alycia Crall, Director of Community

Highlighting this lesson from The Carpentries Incubator, teaching RNA-Seq data analysis with Bioconductor

Read on to learn about Carpentries Instructor Vini Salazar's work and accomplishments with regard to the Carpentries Python Curriculum

We are clarifying the roles and responsibilities of the Executive Council

Ensuring our redesign is friendly and usable for maintainers at all skill levels.

Highlighting a lesson beginning development in The Carpentries Incubator, Foundational Computer Skills.

The Carpentries has been awarded an 18-month grant to advance equitable outcomes in data literacy for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous researchers in the U.S.

Channels/resources available for recruiting Instructors

The Carpentries is preparing to onboard the next round of Maintainers. Applications due 16 July, 2021

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.

Carpentries Director of Partnerships, Al Obayuwana, writes a post commemorating 100 Carpentries memberships

Serah Njambi Kiburu is moving on from The Carpentries

Code of Conduct facilitation is part of the Carpentries Community Facilitators Program. We welcome your review and suggestions on our new Carpentries Code of Conduct Facilitators module

We have two themed discussions on the financial report scheduled for June.

A summary of the two community conversations with the Carpentries Executive Council in February 2021, facilitated by Serah Njambi Kiburu and Dr. Kari L. Jordan

Code of Conduct Committee is recruiting new members. Attend one of our community discussions in June to find out more about how we help make The Carpentries a welcoming and supporting environment.

Toby Hodges takes up leadership of the Curriculum Team from June 2021.

What we learned from the inaugural round of lesson development training.

We will continue to listen to and support you as we endeavor to be the leading inclusive community teaching data and coding skills.

Emily de la Mettrie shares her process behind the design of the next iteration of the lesson template

Lessons included data organising and cleaning in spreadsheets and with OpenRefine, and data analysis and visualisation with R and RStudio

New information about upcoming Discussion Host onboarding sessions for anyone interested in facilitating community calls and themed discussions in The Carpentries.

The yearly Annual and Financial reports for 2020 are now available to read and share

Originally posted on the Bioinformatics Hub of Kenya website, this blog post highlights learnings from the BHKi's first R workshop on 24 and 25 March 2021

Highlighting this lesson from The Carpentries Incubator, Bash and R for Metagenomics.

Read on to learn about Library Carpentry's expansion, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Dr. Michael Culshaw-Maurer joins The Carpentries as a joint postdoctoral researcher with CyVerse

Carpentries Core Team gets a start on alt text updates for Carpentries lessons

Highlighting this lesson from The Carpentries Incubator, teaching Python for Business.

Read on to see how we are progressing towards goals outlined in our Strategic Plan for 2020-2025

Apply to host or teach a beta pilot workshop for the newest Data Carpentry curriculum

Apply to become an Instructor Trainer and shape the next generation of Carpentries Instructors!

Read on to learn more about Carpentries Instructor Vini Salazar’s work to develop the Carpentries Python Curriculum

This post provides a summary of discussions and takeaways from the Community Sustainability session that Serah Njambi Kiburu and Toby Hodges facilitated at the March 2021 SORSE workshop

Please welcome the 5 new members of the Trainers Leadership group

Highlighting this lesson from The Carpentries Incubator, teaching Open data science skills with R and RStudio.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Please welcome the 7 new members of the Library Carpentry Advisory Group

Help with the further improvement of these lessons from The Carpentries Incubator

Al Obayuwana joins The Carpentries as Director of Partnerships

The Library Carpentry lessons are fantastic resources for teaching students.

In this post, Serah Njambi Kiburu and Emily Lescak summarise Serah's presentation and discussions from her Code for Science and Society community talk on accessibility in virtual events, and share an accessibility checklist to guide you as you plan virtual events.

We share a complete bilingual R lesson in English and Japanese

Highlighting this introductory lesson from The Carpentries Incubator, on containerised computing with Docker.

Danielle Sieh joins The Carpentries as Workshop Administrator

We are keen to improve accessibility across our interactions and resources in The Carpentries, and invite you to help.

We request your input in Carpentries Conversation 27 to help guide resource translation priorities and efforts by our community.

Join The Carpentries Team in informal chat sessions at rstudio::global(2021)'s 24-hour conference on January 21 2021

Community members reflect on the experience of teaching a new lesson for the first time.

Here are the members of the 2021 Carpentries Executive Council

We raised $15,445. Thank You!

Read on to learn about our strategic plan progress through Q4 2020 (October - December)

Instructors' experiences running Carpentries workshops in the University of California System

Set your intentions for 2021

This post covers the instructor's experiences teaching an online Data Carpentry workshop in Iran

Announcing a new program to support community members wishing to develop a new lesson in The Carpentries Incubator.

Best practices on online teaching compared to in-person? How to build more visible community network? Nordic and Baltic community is moving forward

We spent some time reflecting on 2020 as a Team, and wrote thank you notes for our community.

Our community is resilient, patient and very resourceful

Here is what has changed in our bylaws this year

Applications to join the Library Carpentry Advisory Group are open between now and 18 January 2021!

Fourteen new Carpentries Instructor Trainers have been badged!

Following up on Hacktoberfest 2020 and the first Glosario contribution drive.

Here are some of the many ways you can contribute to The Carpentries

We have now selected and onboarded our first cohort of community facilitators, focussing on feedback facilitation. Read about them in this post.

The election period for the 2021 Carpentries Executive Council opens Monday November 30

Become a mentor or mentee for first cycle of 2021 Mentoring Groups!

Introducing our newest Regional Coordinator

The Carpentries Executive Director provides insight on The Carpentries fundraising campaign

Join us in welcoming Daniel Chen as our new Maintainer Community Lead!

Read on for a recap on efforts to develop the Carpentries in academic libraries in California, US

Support The Carpentries $30K Individual Contributions Fundraising Goal

Help with the further improvement of this lesson from The Carpentries Incubator

We’re updating the pricing structure and benefits available for our most customisable membership tier.

Job Opportunities With The Carpentries

This post covers instructors' experiences teaching a virtual Library Carpentry workshop in August 2020

Nominations are now open for community-elected and Council-elected positions

Lessons learned during the author's first attendance at a Data Carpentry workshop

Following up on the CarpentryCon @ Home session, Library Carpentry Wikidata Lesson Sprint

Read on to learn about our strategic plan progress through Q3 2020 (July - September)

This post covers instructors' experiences teaching a Data Carpentries workshop for the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources in August 2020

A new page to highlight issues needing your help.

This October, help us internationalise and expand Glosario, the open source, multilingual glossary of data science terms.

Join our new mailing list for an opportunity to engage with The Carpentries on a philanthropic level

Following up on the CarpentryCon @ Home session, Growing Carpentries through a Growing Community with the session hosts

How do the results of our long-term survey for in-person workshops compare to virtual workshops? Let’s find out!

This post covers the instructor's experiences teaching an online Software Carpentry workshop at Newcastle University

Several recent publications have showcased the value of The Carpentries in academic libraries. Here we highlight three written by members of our community

The Carpentries will train NNLM members as Library Carpentry instructors, and pilot additional curriculum in the online environment.

Call for applications to join our 2020 cohort of Carpentries Feedback Facilitators is now open.

Read on and find out how to collaborate with us to develop resources under this program

Our Instructor Development Committee has a strong team of seven to lead its activities over the next year

Questions about Membership? Email membership@carpentries.org

How we listen and why your feedback matters

CarpentryCon @ Home may be over, but the learning should continue.

Teaching 100 learners at once: does it work?

Here is a set of questions we hope to discuss on Wednesday, 26 August 2020 at 21h00 UTC and Thursday, 27 August 2020 at 15h00 UTC. Join us!

Dr. Toby Hodges joins The Carpentries as Curriculum Community Developer. Welcome!

Learn more about running the Carpentries semi-asynchronously.

Twelve Design principles to guide the development of the next lesson template

Applications are now open to join the 2020-2021 cohort of leadership for the Instructor Development Committee

Here are a set of resources to help you recruit instructors for Self-Organised workshops

¡Traduciendo!

Our timeline and strategy to adapt to R 4.0

An open source multilingual glossary of data science terms

Looking to host a Carpentries Community Discussion?

Apply to become an Instructor Trainer and shape the next generation of Carpentries Instructors!

We are looking for the next Maintainer Community Lead!

We have hosted more than 50 pre- and post-workshop discussions between January and June 2020

Twenty-three new Lesson Maintainers badged

We are starting a monthly community call for Instructors in the midwest US.

Find the CarpentryCon @ Home sessions that meet your interests

The following is guidance based on the Software Sustainability Institute staff and collaborators running online training events.

Global Capacity Building for Inclusive Computational Communities

CarpentryCon @ Home begins next week! The 7-week long event starts with a keynote by Dr. Kari L. Jordan on 13 July and the first session on 14 July

This post covers instructors' experiences teaching SQL, OpenRefine, and Python over the course of 4 online sessions in late May

In this post, csvconf.com organisers detail how they moved an in-person community conference online in a few weeks, and the lessons they picked up along the way

Online workshop logistics and how learners would set up their screens if they only had a single monitor.

Learn what we have accomplished with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

This post covers instructors' experiences from teaching an online workshop at UCLA

This post covers instructors' experiences running a four-day online Software Carpentry workshop at the University of Washington

Going forwards, Carpentries Core Team will set aside one work day a month to read and reflect. Friday, June 12 will be the first of these.

The CarpentryCon @ Home Task Force would appreciate community feedback on proposals, and seeks regional hosts to help facilitate sessions at the conference.

Read on to learn about our strategic plan progress

The Carpentries Core Team advocates for empathy, empowerment, and equity

This post covers learners' experiences and feedback from SADiLaR's first three-day online Data Carpentry workshop in early May

Dr. Allen Downey joins The Carpentries as Astronomy Curriculum Developer. Welcome!

Please join The Carpentries Core Team for a monthly community call centred around online workshops

Here are examples of what worked well and other observations from our workshop held in the last week of April

Searching for community discussion topics, panel sessions, or social event ideas

Moving our local Carpentries socials to a virtual space

We have released our 2019 Annual Report and Financial Report, and set up a standalone page for all Carpentries reports

Dr. Kelly Barnes joins The Carpentries as Deputy Director of Instructor Training. Welcome!

Here's how Ambo University's first Data Carpentry workshop went in December 2019

Here's a summary of three themed discussions on teaching git and GitHub from December 2019

Here are the measures Core Team members are taking to support each other and our community during this time

Fourteen new Carpentries Instructor Trainers badged!

Information for Carpentries Instructors to teach workshops remotely

Share this with your students before your next online workshop

We now offer cloud instances as backup for learners with installation issues

Wondering what lists to subscribe to in The Carpentries TopicBox? Read this helpful guide by Angelique Trusler

A bit of a plan for teaching online

We successfully ran a 3-hour workshop for 11 learners with one instructor and five helpers. here's how it turned out.

Dr. Kari L. Jordan is the new Executive Director of The Carpentries!

Sharing with the community what worked well in our first online CodeRefinery workshop and what we need and plan to improve.

The Carpentries convened a COVID-19 Response Task Force in mid-March, and a first version of their work is summarised in this post.

We are pleased to share a resource designed to guide community members as they organise local and regional Carpentries events, whether online or in-person.

There will be no in-person or virtual CarpentryCon in 2020.

Maintaining Carpentries lessons is a great way to learn Git.

Welcoming new and existing Lesson Maintainers to the community!

This post is the second in our round of invaluable community-contributed tips for teaching online.

This post shares a first round of community-contributed tips on teaching online. Have a read and consider contributing more tips for teaching and learning online.

Join us in welcoming Dr. Zhian N. Kamvar to The Carpentries

Join us in welcoming Omar Khan to The Carpentries Core Team and community.

Ryan Avery and Kunal Marwaha taught a new Carpentries Incubator lesson at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and wrote about their experience and feedback from the workshop.

We are closely monitoring the ongoing and evolving global Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, and the potential impact for our community around the world.

A CodiMD instance hosted by The Carpentries is now available.

The Workshop Administration Team at The Carpentries will be testing a new workflow from February 24

Aleksandra Nenadic, our Carpentries Regional Coordinator in the UK, and SSI's Training Lead shares why more should be involved in teaching coding and data science skills

Here's a helpful roundup from CarpentryCon Task Force on how to prepare for, contribute towards and stay updated about CarpentryCon 2020

CarpentryCon 2020's Budget subcommittee has prepared a Sponsorship Kit to guide you in reaching out to potential sponsors

We are advancing our Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility work with funding from Mozilla!

Announcing officers elected to The Carpentries Executive Council for 2020

We will continue building capacity - together.

Read on and learn more about The Carpentries Strategic Plan for the next three to five years

Join us in welcoming Angela Li as our Maintainer Community Lead!

Daniel Ouso and Bianca Peterson share their experience from instructing a Genomics workshop in Nairobi, Kenya in December 2019

A message of gratitude from Ariel Deardorff, co-Chair of the Library Carpentry Advisory Council

Karen Word will serve as our new Director of Instructor Training and oversee the expansion of this program

We cannot wait to see you in Madison, get your conference ticket today!

Today we are announcing a new project to help build regional training partnerships in California

Three regional Carpentries community events will take place this year. Read on and find out if one is scheduled in your region and how to participate in an event near you.

The Carpentries Searches for a New Executive Director

We appreciate the Carpentries team

Support from American Institute of Physics to develop Astronomy curriculum

Partnering for global good

Regional Coordinators keep our workshops going!

Maintainers help keep lessons healthy and workshops running smoothly.

As at December 2019, Carpentries Instructors and Helpers have made over 2,440 workshops possible!

Partnering for global good

“Sithanda ukudlulisa amazwi ukubonga ku Carpentries!” from Carpentries Instructors in Africa

Submit your application to receive financial aid to attend CarpentryCon from June 29 to July 1, 2020

In just six months our Instructor Development Committee has done SO MUCH!

Organised in six subcommittees, this Task Force is doing great work ahead of CarpentryCon 2020

Tracy Teal is moving on from The Carpentries, Kari Jordan will serve as Acting Executive Director

We appreciate the enthusiasm and creativity with which community members communicate in, about and in support of The Carpentries

The Code of Conduct Committee continues to embody our Core Values, and for that, we are grateful.

Thank you to the Executive Council

We upgraded our Etherpad server.

We are taking time throughout December 2019 to reflect, write and share our community green stickies for the year

We are collecting feedback on the long-term impact of our workshops. We want to hear from you!

Job Opportunities With The Carpentries

A collaborative translation of lessons into Japanese is underway, find out what we have learned and how to help

Thanks to our community's input, we are excited to share The Carpentries' nine core values

Apply to become an Instructor Trainer and shape the next generation of Carpentries Instructors!

Dr. Angelique Trusler joins The Carpentries as Regional Consultant for Southern Africa.

Amy Hodge reflects on what it means to serve on the Executive Council and explains why you should apply

A summary of discussions from the in-person Executive Council meeting and the way forward

This post by CarpentryCon 2020 Task Force members offers tips for submitting a session proposal

We have received $2.65 million from Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to support our work over the next three years.

A growing community is gaining momentum to bring Software Carpentry to Japan

Our vision is to be the leading inclusive community teaching computing and data skills.

Join the Task Force on November 6 for CarpentryCon 2020 updates

A new book elaborates on the Carpentries instructor training material and more.

Nominations are now open for community-elected and Council-elected positions

New survey systems for our workshops

Building Community through Membership: 2019 Member Survey Results and Member Organisation Council Meetings

In this post, Angela Li and Jessica Trelogan share tried and tested strategies for organising successful Carpentries workshops

In this post, Raniere Silva shares reflections from teaching a software carpentry workshop in Botswana

A new tool for instructor-trainers to make preparation for a new workshop easier.

This October, read and suggest relevant tags for posts published on The Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry and Software Carpentry blogs

How Rstudio's instructor training builds on the Carpentries.

Here's an update from The Carpentries Executive Council about recent and ongoing work, and with links to relevant resources

Chat with Canadian Regional Coordinators

Matt Dray shares lessons from the trainer workshop about audience needs and positive instructor behaviour when running participatory live coding

In this post, Chris Erdmann reflects on his time as Library Carpentry Community & Development Director ahead of his last day.

Prevent burnout by being welcoming and sharing experiences in everyday conversations.

Here's what The Carpentries team accomplished in Q2 and Q3 2019, and a look into work that will continue in Q4 2019.

Community members gather to discuss Carpentries successes and challenges in Dunedin, New Zealand

The Community Champions discussed how they grow their local communities

The Carpentries should be a leader in ensuring that our community is a safe and welcoming space.

Navigating organising a Carpentries Workshop

California Digital Library receives supplemental grant from IMLS for Library Carpentry

Find out more about The Carpentries values project. Answer three questions and help us articulate our community values

Curious about mentoring groups?

Trainer Training Postponed

Read about activities the Australian Research Data Commons is embarking on to support The Carpentries

In this post, Malvika Sharan shares her personal notes from June 2019's CarpentryConnect in Manchester

Workshops...Request? Notify? Inquire? What Do I Do?

Let's talk about community discussions

A paper on the progress of HPC Carpentry was presented at the 'Workshop on HPC Education and Training for Emerging Technologies' at ISC2019

Anonymous form open for incidents outside CoCc mandate

Following a successful Software Carpentry workshop, Juan Rodriguez summarised the experience in this post.

Join our August 28 2019 community call to help us build a diverse community of preprint reviewers

TU Delft Library met Data Champions from the Department of Biotechnology, Victor Koppejan and Raúl A. Ortiz Merino, to celebrate their Software and Data Carpentry workshop success.

After a rigorous venue and theme bidding process, here's information about CarpentryCon 2020 and 2021!

Missed #CCMCR2019? Read Aleksandra Nenadic's account of the three-day event

Sign up and help shape our Sponsorship Programme.

Our Code of Conduct is serving its purpose, but when incidents fall outside its mandate, what can we do?

We are releasing our community communications plan and introducing how-to guides for community-led communications

What goes into a major lesson update?

With great thanks to the more than 1100 people who have made this lesson release possible.

In this post, Alexander Refsum Jensenius shares thoughts and takeaways from a recent Train the Trainer Workshop

We are paving the way for Inclusivity!

Drawing on Library Carpentry lessons, pedagogy and community

Phil Reed shares lessons from a recent R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis workshop

To charge (a minimal) workshop fee or not to charge? That is the question

A place where everyone can come together to share topics and learn from each other

Now you can request stickers until 30 June 2019!

It’s not enough to be invited to the party; we want you to be asked to dance!

IDC wants your feedback on 6/17

63 sprinters from 8 countries and 35 institutions took part in the May 2019 sprint.

Planning for The Carpentries' financial sustainability

Here's what The Carpentries team is working on in the second quarter of 2019.

Join a mentoring group!

A summary of our community call on Carpentries activities in Australia

Bianca Peterson & Katrin Tirok share their tried-and-tested tips and tricks for teaching R

Join the Community Discussion 21-22 May for Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Planning

Preparing for the June 2019 lesson release

Looking to host a Carpentries Community Discussion? See Martin Dreyer's pointers

Meet the Canadian Regional Coordinators

Our Instructor Development Committee has a strong team of six to lead its activities over the next year

An update on what the Library Carpentry Maintainers have been working on since January 2019.

Response to DataCamp blog post

What's new at ORCID? Learn about new features available via ORCID's API 3.0 to connect and share more of your own and community's contributions.

The Group will advise on ways to foster greater participation in the Library Carpentry community

A Capacity Development Project Inspired by The Carpentries.

New instructors from the East Coast of South Africa join The Carpentries community

A guide for creating Carpentries-style lessons.

Boats, Bridges, Balloons - Here's why and how we communicate at The Carpentries

Interested in leading the Instructor Development Committee? Learn more about the Committee and read some advice from a former Co-Chair.

Upcoming Sprint to improve and develop Library Carpentry material

Announcing officers elected to The Carpentries Executive Council for 2019

Join us for a discussion of past, present and future Carpentries activities in Australia

The Carpentries is searching for its next Instructor Development Committee Leaders!

Coding with Crostini the ChromeOS Linux App

Submit your theme suggestions and venue bids for CarpentryCon 2020

We're hiring a Regional Coordinator for Southern Africa!

How to connect with your Regional Coordinator

Meet the NZ Regional Coordinator

Collaboration and transparency: Keys to our improved Code of Conduct

An update on Library Carpentry lesson development

Here's why you should attend #ccmcr19 from June 25 to 27, 2019.

Check out how The Carpentries team is supporting our community this quarter.

Sher! Shares the News

A two-day worldwide sprint held on 29-30 November 2018 to develop domain-relevant guides on FAIR.

Help inform our Code of Conduct Documentation. Attend the #CarpentriesConversation

What did the African Task Force Do in 2018 and what did we learn...

Building the local South African Carpentries community through a CarpentryConnect.

Jonah is stepping down as Director of Membership and Technology

Reflections on Holding a Carpentries-Inspired Workshop in my Library and Information Science (LIS) Class

Nos complace anunciar una nueva lección traducida por la comunidad: Análisis y visualización de datos usando Python

We are excited to announce our newest community-driven lesson translation: Análisis y visualización de datos usando Python

Kari transitions into new role: Senior Director of Equity and Assessment

Welcome to our new Trainer trainees!

News on Library Carpentry’s Lesson Program Implementation with The Carpentries

Please join us in welcoming Serah Njambi Kiburu!

Instructor Training Checkout requirement to include Community Discussions

We’re making it easier for Members (and others) to schedule their teams for Instructor Training

A space where staff can continue to apply what they've learned from Library Carpentry workshops

Thanks to the award winners, sorted by surname, Tim Dennis, Margareth Gfrerer, Toby Hodges, Fotis Psomopoulos, and Malvika Sharan.

Teaching at the University of the Virgin Islands

What other ways are there to participate in The Carpentries community?

Instructor Development Committee proposes new checkout requirement

What’s new in the Instructor Training curriculum?

Experienced instructors & trained educators wanted!

2019 ballot description and logistics

Focus on targeted growth and representation

Find new pathways to a range of Carpentries material

Please join us in welcoming Talisha Sutton-Kennedy!

Deadline is next week. Do not miss the opportunity to recognise members contribution

Mentoring gives me joy, and here’s why.

On 1 November 2018 the Executive Council approved Library Carpentry as an official Lesson Program

Nominations now open for community-elected Executive Council positions.

In celebration of reaching 2K Twitter followers, here is a summary of our Twitter Analytics

The Carpentries has put together our first official annual report!

What we're planning to accomplish for our lessons in the rest of the year.

Keeping Your Workshop Organised

New Library Carpentry Website Responds to Carpentries Roadmap

A global sprint to develop 10 FAIR things resources for data in different disciplines

2018 Community Service Awards - Call for Nominations

Job Opportunities with The Carpentries

Join the CarpentryCon Task Force

How do you deliver exercises

From zero to … here

A list of resources to kick-start your workshop

Library Carpentry workshop at the University of Arizona

Background to the recent revision of the Code

Invitation to join the CarpentryCon TaskForce

Workshop and instructor training for librarians

Helping us grow our pool of Carpentries instructors

Request for Comment on The Carpentries Bylaws

Building global communities of Spanish-speaking Carpentry instructors and lesson developers

How your library can be a hub for data science activities in your community.

UO and OSU Library Carpentry report

New mission and vision for The Carpentries

What is considered a Library Carpentry workshop vs a roadshow

Quarterly Update on our Programmatic Assessment Report

Cross-institutional skill- and community-building event attracts hundreds of researchers

It's show time!

Help us grow and diversify our pool of Carpentries instructors

That's one small step for The Carpentries, one giant leap for Latin America

Here's proof that YOU are making an impact!

The Executive Council has been working on revising and solidifying the mission, vision, and bylaws for The Carpentries

Dunedin ResBaz was held at The University of Otago on 4-6 July, 2018.

Executive Council moves to eliminate Self-Organised workshop fees

Organisational memberships have defined the joint future of Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry together as The Carpentries

Thanks to The Carpentries and conference sponsors

Executive Council met to discuss mission and vision of The Carpentries

A summary of our progress together over the past eighteen months

Hosting discussion sessions is a great way to expand your network

Upcoming, open Instructor training for librarians

2012-2018 Programmatic Assessment Report Published

Find out what we talked about during the lesson infrastructure breakout session at CarpentryCon

Hosting discussion sessions is a great way to expand your network

Inaugural Conference a Big Success

You Belong in The Carpentries and we want to hear from you

Updates to privacy policy and option to be included on our new website

The Carpentries' Executive Council and the Library Carpentry governance team vote to start discussions

Planning for a seamless transition

Please share your impact story

Executive Council 1st 2018 Tertile Report: Bylaws

The third sprint featured lots of updates and new curriculum, plus the development of a new website

Rethinking the Lesson Pipeline with reticulate

The first joint quarterly report for The Carpentries programs

Many Carpentries instructors may find themselves in the position of teaching material they do not know all that well

Leveraging the power of community

New website for access to all things Carpentries

Find all the latest news on CarpentryCon 2018

Announcing Chris Erdmann as the new Library Carpentry Community and Development Director, starting 4 May, 2018.

Find new pathways to a range of Carpentries material

A short guide on how to contribute and be involved during The Carpentries Bug BBQ.

Did you miss the deadline to join a mentoring group?

To be held in Dublin from 30 May - 1 June, 2018, CarpentryCon will be three action-packed days of skill ups, breakout sessions, talks, social events, and workshops.