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• Post #4285908

  📣 Last chance to share your feedback in The Carpentries 2026 Community Survey! Help us understand what works well, what could be improved, and how we can better support our global community. The survey takes about 5 minutes to complete. Every response helps us ensure decisions are informed by a broader range of community experiences. 📋 https://forms.gle/5RL4UVkNoYRvKhqD8

• Post #4285907

  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thecarpentries/116793332444057927 Ready to start your Python journey? Join our hands-on workshop and learn how to: ✅ Automate repetitive tasks ✅ Write functions and use conditionals ✅ Create data visualisations No prior programming experience required. 21–22 July 11:00–3:00 (UTC−4) Online Register: https://instats.org/seminar/hands-on-python-for-beginners

• Post #4285906

  Keep your skills up-to-date with The Carpentries' new Professional Development courses! 🎓 In just 2-3 hours, build practical skills in GitHub collaboration or learn how to run effective online meetings! Learn more: https://carpentries.org/professional-development/

• Post #4285905

  Our 2025 Annual Report and Financial Statement are now available. A snapshot of The Carpentries' work, finances, and plans for the year ahead. 📄 Read it here: https://carpentries.org/reports/annual-reports/2025AnnualReport.pdf and https://carpentries.org/reports/financial-reports/2025FinancialStatement.pdf

• Post #4285904

  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thecarpentries/116883361880492368 🐍 Ready to learn Python? Join our Python: Coding for Beginners workshop and build a strong foundation in programming. No prior coding experience needed! 📅 21–22 July 2026 🕚 11:00 AM –3:00 PM ET (UTC -4) 💻 Online via Zoom Register now: https://instats.org/seminar/hands-on-python-for-beginners

• Post #4285903

  📢 HPC Carpentry Meeting – July 16 @ 13:00 Central European Time View the draft agenda here (https://codimd.carpentries.org/SX5lpGdhQViCjCAq1NvbNg ) - feedback is welcome. We'll cover the draft snippet policy, SC26 BoF, Magic Castle scheduling, and updates to the beta lesson site and array-rehabilitation PRs. See you there!

• Post #4285902

  Join us next week for a Q&A community session with Library Carpentries Governance Committee (LCGC). What does the LCGC do? How can they support your work as Carpentries Instructors, Maintainers, or building your local community? 📆 Date: Wednesday, 22 July Sign up on Pretix: Session 1 - @ 15:00 UTC https://pretix.carpentries.org/community-events/community-sessions/790/ Session 2 - @ 22:00 UTC https://pretix.carpentries.org/community-events/community-sessions/791/

• Post #4285901

  The Carpentries is offering Learner-Centred Teaching, a program to help you enhance your evidence-based teaching practices. Whether you are a novice building foundational skills or an experienced educator sharpening your craft, this is for anyone facilitating learning. 💡 Effective Teaching 🤝 Inclusive Classrooms 🎯 Live Practice Teaching well isn't just about content; it's about understanding how people learn. 📍 https://carpentries.org/learner-centered-teaching/

• Post #4285900

  📢 Today and tomorrow, 21-22 July 2026, our Director of Curriculum, Dr Toby Hodges, is participating virtually at the Library of Congress AI Literacy + Learning for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LAMs) Summit. He will give a brief overview of current activities and suggestions for how summit participants can get involved in the AI Carpentry project. 🌟 The gathering, in Washington, DC and virtually, brings together leaders and stakeholders working at the intersection of responsible AI and libr...

• Post #4285899

  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thecarpentries/116924471540853451 ICYMI -- Reminder that the first of two sessions is taking place in a few hours later today, starting at 15h00 UTC:

• Post #4285898

  📢 Join us tomorrow, 23 July at 12:00 and 19:00 UTC, for the second set of sessions in the GenAI + Teaching Discussion series co-hosted by The Carpentries and the AI Carpentry project. Tomorrow's calls will be led by Sue McClatchy, Senior Program Manager for Bioinformatics Education at The Jackson Laboratory. 🌟 Sign up on Pretix: 📆 Session 1 @ 12:00 UTC: https://pretix.carpentries.org/community-events/community-sessions/793/ 📆 Session 2 @ 19:00 UTC: https://pretix.carpentries.org/co...

• Post #4285897

  PyCon Colombia 2026 starts today, Friday, 24 July until Sunday, 26 July in the city of Medellín! 🚀 🌟 Our Executive Director @drkariljordan is attending, and will deliver a Keynote presentation on Sunday. PyCon Colombia 2026 is the tenth edition of the non-profit conference organised by volunteers from the Python community and other technology leaders in Colombia. With over 600 expected attendees, this event provides a unique opportunity to connect, learn, and explore the latest trends in #Py...

• Post #4285896

  🎉 The Carpentries has reached a significant milestone today: we have hosted our 5,000th registered workshop! 🎊 The Carpentries was founded in 1998, but we began systematically tracking the activities of our programmes in late 2011. The first thus recorded workshop was hosted at the University of Toronto on 7 to 8 November 2011 as a collaboration between Software Carpentry, Scinet and The Hacker Within. 👏 The workshop was a 2-day boot camp on software engineering for graduate students in the sc...

• Post #1821644

  📣 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧: 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 We’re excited to invite you to our 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 workshop! 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬: 18-21 May, 2026 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞: 10 am - 2 pm Eastern Time (UTC -4) 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Online This beginner-friendly Software Carpentry workshop covers Shell, Git, and Python and provides a solid foundation for further self-directed learning. 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝—please feel free to share with your friends, colleagues, or communities who might be interested. Registration is limited, so we encour...

• Post #1325560

  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thecarpentries/116330366047931050 📢 The deadline to apply to be a Carpentries Lesson Maintainer has been extended to 17 April, midnight anywhere on Earth. The Carpentries Maintainers work with the community to make sure that lessons stay up-to-date, accurate, functional and cohesive. ⏰ Apply now: https://carpentries.org/blog/2026/04/maintainer-onboading/

• Post #1325559

  Why do organisations partner with The Carpentries? To build sustainable training capacity for data and computational skills. Our global community now includes: 72 countries with workshops 5,382 instructors 185 Instructor Trainers 4,950 workshops delivered. Partnerships can include combinations of: - Instructor Training seats - Collaborative Lesson Development training seats - professional development in digital workforce skills - consultation and support for building local communities of pra...

• Post #1325558

  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thecarpentries/116396942805883606 📢 Reminder: The deadline to apply to be a Carpentries Lesson Maintainer has been extended to 17 April (midnight, anywhere on Earth). If you have been considering applying, there is still time!

• Post #1171019

  Last year we released a statement in which we said we will continue “to monitor changes at Twitter in conjunction with internal discussions about whether our presence on the platform will continue.” We now announce that as of today, 20 October 2023, all our #socialmedia engagements will be from this Mastodon account, as well as LinkedIn and YouTube, and none from our 5 #Twitter / X accounts. Find out about these changes and more here: https://carpentries.org/blog/2023/10/announcing-the-carpent...

• Post #1171018

  The FINAL event in our series celebrating our 25th anniversary #Carpentries25 is in a week's time, on Monday 4 December at 13:00 UTC. We will spotlight our subcommunities in Asia with Annajiat Alim Rasel, Tom Kelly, “Intekhab” Md Interkhabul Hafix, and Monah Abou Alezz. You can register for this final event in the series here: https://rb.gy/jiqsf

• Post #1171017

  We would like to begin our #GivingSeason #GivingTuesday appeals this week by expressing our gratitude to the funders who have supported The Carpentries mission over the years. They have ensured that our organisation and community could achieve the work they have done over the past 25 years #Carpentries25, and we want to say THANK YOU, THANK YOU for the support! #CarpentriesGratitudes 💓 Below, is a thread of appreciation for each of our funders over the years.

• Post #1171016

  Today is #GivingTuesday, a global opportunity for us to use the individual power of generosity to support communities and important causes. In this appeal, our Executive Council Member @microstevens shares how, as an involved community member, she found it difficult to make the jump to also donating money to The Carpentries, but explains why today she does so gladly and invites more #CarpentriesCommunity members to join her in doing so: https://carpentries.org/blog/2023/11/celebrate-givingtuesda...

• Post #1171013

  In December we bid farewell to 7 Core Team members: @alycrall, Brynn Elliott, Eli Chadwick, @karen_word @kbarnes Talisha Sutton-Kennedy and @zkamvar. They left us with a rich legacy borne out of care for and devotion to their work supporting The Carpentries and its community. On behalf of the remaining members of the Core Team, @drkariljordan, Toby Hodges, Danielle Sieh and @oscarsibabalwe put together this post to celebrate them, with gratitude: https://carpentries.org/blog/2024/01/with-gratit...

• Post #1171009

  Over the years, a lot has been written and published about the activities and impact of The Carpentries and its community. Starting this week through to June, our Executive Director @drkariljordan will resurface some of these key publications, also sharing a brief reflection on each, to remind us of how far we've come along together as a community. Posts written by Kari, and shared through our Mastodon and LinkedIn accounts over the coming months, will be signed: " -- Kari.”

• Post #1098407

  🚀 The Carpentries has opened nominations for our Board of Directors! We’re looking for leaders to drive our mission to make data science and open-source education accessible to all. 📅 6 seats are available for a 3-year term starting Feb 2025. Join us to contribute your expertise, gain professional experience and connect with a global network dedicated to data literacy. 💻 Interested? Self-nominate by Nov 20, 2024, and optionally submit a short video! Learn more and apply: https://forms.gle/gzuqd...

• Post #1098397

  📅 Upcoming community sessions next week https://carpentries.org/community/#community-events Events are in UTC Time : 📣 CarpentriesOffline Community Meeting 04 December 2024 15:30 🇺🇸 US Midwest Community Call 04 December 2024 18:00. 📣 Workshop Debrief and Teaching Discussion 04 December 2024 19:00 📣 HPC Carpentry Community Call UTC Time: 05 December 2024, 12:00 and 22:00

• Post #1097265

  Our impact starts with people. Behind every Carpentries workshop is a community of Instructor Trainers, Instructors, Maintainers, and many other contributors working together to build data and computational skills worldwide. 🌍 Instructor Trainers prepare new Instructors in evidence-based teaching practices. Those Instructors then teach workshops that reach hundreds of learners. That’s the multiplier effect at the heart of The Carpentries. Read the blog: https://carpentries.org/blog/2026/04/h...

• Post #1097264

  Join us next week to add your contributions to Glosario, our multilingual glossary of data science terms, and help us break down language barriers in data science and programming. 🖥️ Event: Glosario Co-Working 📆 Date: Wednesday, 15 April ⏰️️ Time: 15:00 UTC Sign up on Pretix: https://pretix.carpentries.org/community-events/community-sessions/744/ #DataScience

• Post #955873

  Join us for a hands-on session on how to create a website for your Carpentries workshop. 🖥️ Event: Creating a Workshop Website Skill-up 🛠️ 📆 Date: 3 March ⏰️ Time: 09:30 UTC You will learn the basics of setting up and managing a workshop site, with guided support throughout. You will need a GitHub account. Sign up on Pretix: https://pretix.carpentries.org/community-events/community-sessions/463/

• Post #955872

  📢 The Carpentries is calling for volunteers from the Data Carpentry community to become Lesson Program Governors (LPGCs) for the project. LPGCs oversee the strategy of the lesson program, advocate for the project in their networks, and act as a point of contact for the project e.g., liaising with the Board of Directors, the Core Team, and the wider community. 🗓️ 🕐 Applications close by the end of Tuesday 10th March 2026 (anywhere on Earth). Find out more about this call, and how to apply, in...

• Post #955871

  We are so grateful for the generosity of the volunteer organisers of the Winter Analytics Summit for choosing The Carpentries as their charity of choice to donate to $3,300 worth of the summit's registration proceeds. 🙌 The summit was held on 20 - 22 February 2026. Their generosity, and the generosity of everyone who supported the summit by contributing their time and funds, is greatly appreciated. This donation will go a long way in supporting our efforts towards securing the continue...