We propose a workshop to bring together the community drivers and participants in the Carpentries activities (https://carpentries.org/). This workshop will foster the development of a Carpentries community across the UC system; we will identify and enable the sharing of resources, materials, and good practices, and will brainstorm future activities to advance Carpentries work at our respective institutions.
The Carpentries project is a non-profit, volunteer-led organization. It comprises Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry, communities of Instructors, Trainers, Lesson Maintainers, helpers and supporters who share a mission to teach foundational computational and data science skills to researchers. Skills are taught through short, impactful workshops, often targeted to specific research domains. Additional nascent projects include High Performance Computing (HPC) Carpentry and Library Carpentry.
We will solicit participation from various campuses, both to gather materials (including modules used, approaches to campus outreach, etc.) in advance, and to identify Carpentries instructors, supporters, and stakeholders. At a minimum, this will provide a cross-section of materials used on each campus; an ideal outcome will connect participants from various campuses to catalyze a system-wide community of Carpentries partners. We are working on a source of funds to subsidize participants who are directly involved in Carpentries efforts, and who may not otherwise have travel funding to attend UCCSC.
Organizing partners include: Claire Mizumoto (UCSD), Tim Dennis (UCLA) , and Patrick Schmitz (UCB)
Engagement or participation with the Carpentries in some role (instructor, host, member) is preferred, however, if you organize or run computational and data workshops at a campus, but wonder how the Carpentries could help, this workshop is appropriate.
For those with less experience with the Carpentries, it will be useful to browse the Carpentries lesson offerings to get a sense of what a carpentry workshop typically can cover:
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Software Carpentry <https://software-carpentry.org/lessons/>
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Data Carpentry <http://www.datacarpentry.org/lessons/>
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Library Carpentry <https://librarycarpentry.github.io/>
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HPC Carpentry <https://hpc-carpentry.github.io/>
Participants should also familiarize themselves with the Carpentries code of conduct, which is expected to be upheld at all Carpentries events: http://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/policies/code-of-conduct.html
None required.