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The Carpentries
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The Turing Way project, Turing Institute, UK
rOpenSci, Canada
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North-West University, South Africa
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eScience Center, Netherlands
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The Carpentries
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Oklahoma State University, USA
Frictionless Data, Open Knowledge Foundation
Lancaster University, UK
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Open Computational Inclusion and Digital Equity Resource (OpenCIDER)
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Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
University of Ibadan, Nigeria
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University of Canterbury, New Zealand
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA
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University of Iceland
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Brown University, USA
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Research IT Services, University College London
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National Imaging Facility, Australia
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University of Toronto Libraries, Canada
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University of Illinois, USA
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Stanford University, USA
Regional Coordinator
Carpentries Regional Coordinator, Nordic Countries
Code Refinery, Norway
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Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Germany
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Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
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Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC), Wisconsin, USA
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Sydney Informatics Hub, Australia
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Spiralia, Venezuela
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Virginia Tech, USA
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RStudio, Canada
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Intermine, UK
eLife, UK
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University of Oslo Library
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University of California San Francisco Library, USA
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ZB MED, Germany
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Leiden University Libraries, Netherlands
Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, USA
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The Carpentries
Code for Science and Society
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GeoDa Center, University of Chicago, USA
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TH Köln -- University of Applied Sciences, Germany
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UiT The Arctic University of Norway
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Aalto University, Finland
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University of Oslo, Norway
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Tfaily lab, University of Arizona, USA
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Oklahoma State University, USA
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Oklahoma State University, USA
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA
Open Computational Inclusion and Digital Equity Resource (OpenCIDER)
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Pringle Lab, Stanford University, USA
Joint Initiative for Metrology in Biology, USA
Stanford University, USA
National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Argentina
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The Carpentries
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The Carpentries
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Macquarie University Faculty of Arts, Sydney, Australia
Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, USA
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CarpentryCon @ Home
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Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, USA
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The Carpentries
Aalto University, Finland
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University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute, USA
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Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Australia
Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI), Finland
Mozilla Foundation
Python Software Foundation
eLife
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
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Postdoctoral researcher, University of Bergen, Norway
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The Carpentries
13 July 2020: 14h00 UTC
14 July 2020: 00h00 UTC
This was the first session of CarpentryCon @ Home, delivered by The Carpentries Executive Director, Dr. Kari L. Jordan.
Kari L. Jordan Executive Director, The Carpentries
Dr. Kari L. Jordan studied mechanical engineering at Michigan Technological University. Her doctoral research explored self-efficacy of underrepresented engineering students. After completing a post-doc in the Engineering Fundamentals Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, she was hired to lead Data Carpentry's Assessment Efforts. She currently serves as Executive Director for The Carpentries. Kari enjoys running the Engineer Like a Girl after-school program in her free time, and teaching Zumba fitness.
25 August 2020: 14h00 UTC
Leadership skills such as openness, inclusivity, project road mapping, and community building are essential for modern science and research today. Despite this, these skills are rarely taught.
br>We believe that scientists and researchers should learn how to effectively lead projects openly, collaboratively, and thoughtfully from day one.To facilitate this, we created Open Life Science (http://openlifesci.org/), a 16-week training and mentorship program that prepares early career researchers and academic leaders to become open science ambassadors for their own projects but for the communities around them.
In this session, we will discuss mentoring and training our members in Open Science skills, introduce to the Open Life Science (OLS) program's open source resources, and run a “taster session” where we will touch on some of the important aspects of open research, whilst giving it the feel of a collaborative, informative and classic OLS full-cohort call.
29 July 2020: 09h00 UTC
Ally Skills Session will aim to have open discussions with people interested in learning how to step up and use their societal advantages to support others in your workplace and communities. This session is intended to be 1.5 hours long.
After a short introduction, we will break out in smaller groups to discuss real-world scenarios in which an ally could take action. Each group will then report-out and share their insight.Participants will learn ally skills by practicing them in discussion groups: listening, amplifying voices, apologizing and correcting themselves, and more.
The workshop will end with each participant setting a specific goal for their future ally work. The trainers are trained by Valerie Aurora through her workshop from Frameshift Consulting. Materials are available online openly here (https://frameshiftconsulting.com/ally-skills-workshop/).
Malvika Sharan Community Manager, The Turing Way project, Turing Institute, UK
Malvika Sharan is the community manager of The Turing Way at The Alan Turing Institute. Malvika works with its community of diverse members to develop resources and ways that can make data science accessible for a wider audience. Malvika has a PhD in Bioinformatics and she worked at European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany, that helped her solidify her values as an Open Researcher and community builder. She is a co-founder of the Open Life Science mentoring program, a fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute and a board member of Open Bioinformatics Foundation.
26 August 2020: 21h00 UTC
27 August 2020: 15h00 UTC
On 26 August 2020 at 21h00 UTC and 27 August 2020 at 15h00 UTC, a few community builders and wranglers will come together in two fireside chats to discuss different challenges, ideas and approaches around Growing Inclusive, Computational Communities and Leaders. Please fill this form with any questions or topics you would like to be part of the agenda for the fireside chats and we will make sure to include them in the discussions.
Stefanie Butland (she/her) Community Manager, rOpenSci, Canada
I have my dream job as the Community Manager for rOpenSci where I help build up the social and technical infrastructure for open and reproducible research software in R. I'm a biologist, former low-throughput bioinformatician, and compulsive people-connector and knowledge-sharer. My research life involved bacteria, plants, insects, and mammals, first at the bench and then on a laptop. I was one of the inaugural AAAS Community Engagement Fellows and am actively involved with the new Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement. My favourite word is 'welcome' and I love helping people recognize themselves - where they shine, and where they fit.
22 July 2020: 10h00 UTC
There is a growing gap between the accumulation of big data and researchers’ knowledge about how to use it effectively. Furthermore, there seems to be great interest from the Carpentries community to learn and teach genomics. South Africa boasts 26 public universities each conducting research in areas where genomics techniques are (or can be) applied to answer questions related to health, food, environmental issues, and/or agriculture. Currently, only nine of these universities offer formal undergraduate or postgraduate training programmes in bioinformatics or computational genomics. The North-West University (NWU) isn't one of these nine. For that reason, we explored various avenues for building institutional genomics capacity. I would like to present this topic in the form of a breakout session at CarpentryCon@Home and discuss the results and challenges for each approach, as was experienced by our institution’s researchers. I would also like other people in the field of genomics to tells us how they build genomics capacity at their institutions. Together we might come up with feasible solutions to 'teach people how to fish'.
28 July 2020: 09h00 UTC
14 August 2020: 14h00 UTC
Since becoming part of the Carpentries' community, I can't imagine what my life was like before. I have learned so many things in the past few year, even though it was a long, hard road and many lessons were learned. Burnout was a reality for me, and I am certain that it is for many others as well. I would thus like to propose a breakout session where people can share their experiences, challenges, and solutions to preventing/treating burnout. We not only want an active community, but a healthy one.
Bianca Peterson Researcher and Post-doctoral fellow: Pharmaceutics, North-West University, South Africa
Bianca obtained her doctoral degree in Environmental Sciences (Molecular Biology) at the department of Microbiology, North-West University (NWU), Potchefstroom, in August 2017. She is currently a post-doctoral research associate at the Centre of Excellence for Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharmacen™), NWU, Potchefstroom under the supervision of Professor J.D. Steyn, where she conducts data analyses. Part of her post-doctoral responsibilities entail guidance, supervision and mentoring of undergraduate and post-graduate students. Furthermore, she is the director and trainer of Conquest Analytics and Training, which is a consulting company specialising in data analysis and data skills training. She is passionate about research (specifically genetics) and teaching foundational computational skills. She believes that the extraordinary advancement of technology, particularly in Life Sciences, has made bioinformatics skills crucial to ensure people acquire the necessary skills and competencies to survive and contribute to the rapidly changing society. As a result, she certified as a Carpentries instructor in 2016, teaching foundational computational skills at 2-day hands-on workshops. She then attended the first CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School in Trieste, Italy, in 2016, and returned in 2017 as a helper. She taught at the first South African Summer School in January 2020, and joined the Summer School Working Group as a co-chair to help strategise, co-organise and co-teach at these Summer Schools worldwide and help to develop the train-the-trainer model.
30 July 2020: 12h00 UTC
Open science has rapidly gained interest and importance across the academic world and society. It will require researchers to be open and transparent in sharing their methods, analyses and raw and published data, so these can be reused, verified or reproduced by a wider audience. In the humanities and social sciences, research software (including code, scripts, tools, algorithms) often is an integral part of the methodological process, so there is a need for guidelines on making these open as well. The Netherlands eScience Center and DANS launched a website (fair-software.eu) with five practical recommendations that help researchers to make their software more FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). The site serves as a signpost for researchers to get actionable advice on how to get this adventure started. The general idea of the session is that workshop participants bring their code, and the session organizers will help participants to improve the openness and FAIRness of their software or scripts using the new website as guidance.
Participants of this session will (i) learn about the fair-software.eu website, (ii) learn about five things they can do to improve FAIRness of their software, (iii) put their code in the open, (iv) select the license, (v) find relevant software registry, (vi) make their software citable and (vii) select the quality checklist that fits their purpose.
The session addresses the challenges in opening up research software and facilitation of software sustainability.
Mateusz Kuzak Community Manager, eScience Center, Netherlands
Mateusz is a Community Manager at the Netherlands eScience Center where he coordinates the training program and supports communities around research software and reproducible and open science. Mateusz co-leads Software Development Best Practices Working Group in ELIXIR Europe and is the Carpentries trainer, instructor, mentor and former Executive Council member. Before joining the Center, Mateusz made the whole journey from the wet lab, using microscopy to study cell biophysics, through bioinformatics to Research Software Engineering and Scientific Community Management. Full bio: https://www.esciencecenter.nl/team/mateusz-kuzak-msc/
28 July 2020: 13h00 UTC
This skill-up session is aimed at anyone who wants to learn more about how to design good lessons and the lesson development process promoted by The Carpentries.
If you'd like to create your own lesson, or contribute to the ongoing development of existing curricula, but aren't sure where to start, this session is for you!
The session will be in 2 parts. First, we will review the principles of curriculum design used for Carpentries lessons. Using the Curriculum Development Handbook, we will present how to use Backward Design to identify what to include in a lesson, decide on the exercises suitable for formative assessment, and the general development life-cycle of a lesson. In the second part, we will present and answer questions about The Carpentries Incubator and The Carpentries Lab, venues to collaborate and share community-developed lessons in the style of The Carpentries.
After attending the session, participants will be able to design new lessons in style of The Carpentries, create exercises suitable to the learning objectives of their lessons, and contribute to the development of existing curricula.
François Michonneau Senior Director of Technology, The Carpentries
François is the Senior Director of Technology at The Carpentries. As member of the Infrastructure and Curriculum Teams, he enjoys developing tools that helps beginners learn. He enjoys teaching R and the tidyverse to learners with little or no programming experience. When you meet him, you can talk about best teaching practices, reproducibility, marine biodiversity (data), and/or sea cucumbers.
20 July 2020: 17h00 UTC
Non-profits and volunteer led organizations are subject to a predictable lifecycle. The early excitement of new ideas is generated by a small group. This early energy is slowly replaced by growth and stability sustained by a larger group through creation of some form of governance and management. Local Carpentries organizations are subject to the same constraints as other volunteer led groups. One of the predictable problems as organizations mature is burnout or attrition of volunteers which, if not addressed, leads to a decline curve and ultimately dissolution of the local community. We plan to describe the characteristics of the organizational lifecycle and our experiences implementing measures to encourage continued growth. We will encourage both Carpentries volunteers and learners provide their viewpoints as we discuss the following:
- Where is your local Carpentries in the organizational lifecycle? What are the characteristics that can determine whether your community is growing or has become stagnant?
- The best way to assess the health of the organization is to answer the question “Are we accomplishing our mission?” Has your community clarified your mission? Who is your community? Is it diverse or are there groups who are not well represented? How can these groups contribute to the community and how can they be engaged?
- What is unique about Carpentries compared to other non-profit, volunteer led organizations? Why will these characteristics make it harder or easier to create continued growth?
- After you have identified the characteristics of your community and clarified your mission, it is time to brainstorm some ways to renew and re-energize, moving from the mature or stagnant decline stage back to healthy growth. Newer communities can consider how to anticipate and plan for this stage of their lifecycle.
Kay K. Bjornen, PhD Visiting Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University, USA
Kay is the Research Data Initiatives Librarian at the Oklahoma State University Library. She received her MLIS from the University of Oklahoma after a career as a chemist and research manager for ConocoPhillips. She is responsible for outreach to OSU researchers through consultation and support of research data management and has been a co-coordinator and certified instructor for the OSU Carpentries since 2018.
6 August 2020: 13h00 UTC
This session is a follow up to my recent talk: Low-Income Data Diaries - How “Low-Tech” Data Experiences Can Inspire Accessible Data Skills and Tool Design (https://youtu.be/XV_jxbB1cBY) at csv,conf,v5. In that csvconf.com talk, I made the case that a significant population of data stakeholders exist in low-technical skills and low-technological infrastructure context, and find current data literacy approaches (Data Literacy 1.0) inaccessible. The main takeaway from the csv,conf talk was the need to rethink and redesign a new approach (Data Literacy 2.0) that makes data skills and resources more accessible to these stakeholders. Whereas the prior talk set the stage for the current challenge, this session will dive into strategies and resources that I have discovered and develop to get started with embedding low-tech skills and resources into our data literacy approaches.
15 July 2020: 13h00 UTC
Generating insight and conclusions from scientific data is not always a straightforward process. Data is often hard to find, archived in difficult to use formats, poorly structured and/or incomplete. These issues create friction and make it difficult to use, publish and share data. The Frictionless Data initiative (frictionlessdata.io) at Open Knowledge Foundation (okfn.org) aims to reduce friction in working with data, with a goal to make it effortless to transport data among different tools and platforms for further analysis, and with an emphasis on reproducible research and open data. In this workshop, participants will learn about different sources of friction in working with scientific data and how to alleviate them using the open source Frictionless Data tools. Participants will learn where to find open scientific data, how to computationally prepare this data for further analysis and generate conclusions, and also best practices for sharing data and documenting metadata. This hands-on workshop is aimed for researchers interested in open science and reproducible research that are at a beginner programming level (for instance, some familiarity with Python or R and the command line), but more advanced programmers are also welcome.
Lilly Winfree Product Owner, Frictionless Data, Open Knowledge Foundation
Lilly is the product manager for the Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research project at Open Knowledge Foundation. She has her PhD in neuroscience from Oregon Health and Science University, where she researched brain injury in fruit flies and became an advocate for open science and open data. Outside of work, you'll find her hanging out with her dogs, running, baking, eating tacos, or reading sci-fi.
13 August 2020: 13h00 UTC
Putting Madisonian data into reproducible documents and dashboards--should be fun!
The methods for disseminating research are advancing. Papers now include more and more supplementary materials. This shift has been facilitated by burgeoning technologies and available training. Another major contributor was the replication crisis in psychology. Nowadays, researchers customarily examine the extra materials with new studies. These materials are available to non-academics, too. Standard supplementals could be dubbed Open Data and Reproducibility, Version 1. Excitingly, updated features are already available, largely based on open-source software. Let’s look at some applications using R.
Pablo Bernabeu will conduct this workshop, which uses real code of varying complexity and Madisonian data! Each of the three sections below include practice, allowing participants to get acquainted with common challenges and even to create some output.
Pablo Bernabeu Psychology PhD student and teaching assistant, Lancaster University, UK
After doing a research masters, Pablo became a PhD student and graduate teaching assistant in Psychology. Pablo is investigating how conceptual processing (i.e., understanding the meaning of words) is supported by linguistic and sensorimotor brain systems. He has used methods such as behavioural and electroencephalographic experiments, corpus analysis, statistics and programming.
11 August 2020: 16h00 UTC
Open Computational Inclusion and Digital Equity Resource (OpenCIDER)is a space for knowledge sharing regarding data management and analysis, computational training, and building inclusive communities to advance participation in open research and innovation.
The aim is to address the lack of diversity of underrepresented groups in open research by encouraging the development of tools and portable solutions adapted to resources of a wide variety of audiences such as those from low and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Our vision is to create a valuable resource that serves as a space for:
knowledge-sharing, advice, good practices, workflows, and a list of tools to facilitate
- computational training and research data management.
- ideas for the development of accessible, adaptable technical solutions.
- a community of researchers, from diverse backgrounds, to connect and collaborate.
We encourage those interested in open research practices, computational training, and community building to join us in this sprint to share their experiences to help develop guidelines for:
- Virtual workshop for audience in LMICs
- Inclusive space for the hackathon
- Accessible software design
Engagement in this sprint will be based on note-taking and discussions in breakout rooms.
Sara El-Gebali Founder, Open Computational Inclusion and Digital Equity Resource (OpenCIDER)
Dr. Sara El-Gebali is the team leader for the research data management group at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin and the founder of OpenCider (Open Computational Inclusion and Digital Equity Resource) https://selgebali.gitbook.io/opencider/ . Before joining the MDC, she was a scientific database curator at the European Molecular Biology Laboratories (EMBL)-EBI and EMBO and my background is in cancer biology. She is a strong advocate for community building, inclusive spaces and the promotion of women and underrepresented minorities in STEM and open research.
27 July 2020: 18h00 UTC
Software Carpentry focuses on task automation and proposes Bash shell as an effective tool to this end. However, in Windows it is not a native tool and it can lead to problems with software designed primarily for Windows (many scriptable engineering packages are such). However, there exists a native tool with capabilities comparable to that of the shell. Learning how to effectively use the command prompt would provide attendees with a technical skill very interesting to the engineering community at large. This in turn would help grow the interest in The Carpentries workshops and, in a wider perspective, the diffusion of Open Science practices in the engineering community.
Luca Di Stasio Post-doctoral Researcher & Professional Engineer, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Solid Mechanics at KAUST, Saudi Arabia, I am a Professional Engineer (Italian License, 2013) and I completed a Ph.D. in Polymeric Composite Materials at Luleå University of Technology (2019) and a Ph.D. in Materials Science at Université de Lorraine (2019). To know more about me visit http://www.lucadistasioengineering.com.
04 August 2020: 12h00 UTC
Africa is said to be the World Global Commerce by 2035. Investors and global actors in most cases lack evidence-based research about Africa data from Africa source. Since data is said to be the future Gold and most valuable resources, investors are more interested about what is in it for them in Africa in order to set the investment in Africa rolling. The current data gaps, challenges and access in Africa remain a major constraints for any investor. This session aim to proffer information on how to overcome these challenges through visualization of the continent most valuable resources-Data!
05 August 2020: 22h00 UTC
For anyone in health, education, social sciences, ecology, genomics, genetics, software programming, and indeed any field that investigates causal thinking, graphical exploration of cause and effect is important for generation of deep insights. The free and open source R package Lavaan provides an excellent interface to explore such graphic causal models. In the workshop, I will run a Carpentry style workshop so that following the workshop, the participants will (1) gain an understanding of causal modelling, and (2) use Lavaan in R to explore graphical models for studying cause and effect relationships.
Arindam Basu Doctor, Professor of Epidemiology, and Evidence based health, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Arindam Basu is an Associate Professor in Public Health (Environmental Health and Health Services Research).
03 August 2020: 16h00 UTC
For folks coming from an academic background, it can be difficult to both identify and develop professional skills that aren't explicitly related to our field of research. This breakout session will help participants identify and assess professional skills they would like to explore, and help locate potential pathways in Carpentries to meet those needs.
26 August 2020: 21h00 UTC
27 August 2020: 15h00 UTC
On 26 August 2020 at 21h00 UTC and 27 August 2020 at 15h00 UTC, a few community builders and wranglers will come together in two fireside chats to discuss different challenges, ideas and approaches around Growing Inclusive, Computational Communities and Leaders. Please fill this form with any questions or topics you would like to be part of the agenda for the fireside chats and we will make sure to include them in the discussions.
Kate Hertweck, Ph.D. Bioinformatics Training Manager, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Kate Hertweck is the bioinformatics training manager at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, where they develop and teach courses on reproducible computational methods as a part of fredhutch.io. Kate's graduate training at University of Missouri in genomic evolution of plants was followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) at Duke University, where they fell in love with R and began working exclusively in computational biology. Kate then spent four years as an assistant professor teaching bioinformatics, genomics, and plant taxonomy before transitioning to biomedical research training. Kate has been involved in The Carpentries, a non-profit organization that teaches reproducible computational methods, since 2014, serving as a leader in community governance since 2016. When not being an overenthusiastic instructor, Kate likes to spend their time doing fiber arts (knitting, crochet) and enjoying all things science fiction.
04 August 2020: 21h00 UTC
In this session we hope to bring together text-as-data practitioners and those in academic support roles to discuss models for building communities related to computational text analysis. Many early career scholars interested in text analytics find themselves at institutions that provide little direct support for learning and practicing emerging methods related to text as data (e.g., topic modeling or sentiment analysis). Even where expertise does exist on a particular campus, it can be difficult for an individual scholar —- especially those in the humanities or social sciences—to bridge disciplinary and bureaucratic boundaries to find peers and mentors in computational research areas. The Carpentries offer one helpful foundation for learning essential data science tools; this session explores opportunities for building upon that foundation to address the growing needs and interests of scholars in text analytics.
At our institution, we recently initiated the Text as Data Practice Group, a discipline-agnostic monthly gathering for scholars to experiment and learn from each other, from local experts, and from open access tutorials in a social setting. The group operates in the spirit of creating community, nurturing peer-to-peer learning, and exploring emerging text and data analysis methods on campus. We plan to provide an overview of this program, and then lead participants through discussion prompts to share their own thoughts about successes, challenges, and opportunities related to building communities for text as data. Participants will learn about different models to develop and nurture communities in computational research.
Cody Hennesy Journalism and Digital Media Librarian, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA
Cody Hennesy (he/him/his) is the Journalism and Digital Media Librarian at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
18 August 2020: 16h30 UTC
The issue of dependency management is one which is of interest to all scientists and researchers who wish to develop reproducible results with software. The Nix package management system is one which is cross-platform and will enable the instructors to pin their dependencies to mimic perfectly, the environment of the learners, as a very basic example see https://github.com/HaoZeke/nixCarp. It is a more robust, secure and lightweight alternative to using a docker container and is a very important pedagogical tool as well. The workshop would cover the generation of nix-pkg derivations, which being written as they are in a functional style of programming, needs some description. Furthermore it would cover the best practices of the nix community when it comes to using the nix-shell environments. My experience as a nixpkg manager would let me communicate this tool to my fellow instructors and those at the event. I feel like this would be very beneficial to the audience. Nix, like git is a deep and complicated tool, but which can be used to reap fantastic dividends with a low learning curve if taught correctly.
23 July 2020: 13h00 UTC
This workshop covers how to make your code more reusable and citable. Starting from an expectation of miscellaneous scripts and notebooks that are common among competent practitioners of python, who focus on their research analysis, we will cover how to organize your code into a pip-installable package with a live documentation website.
The (alpha) lesson materials are located in the Carpentries Incubator (https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/python-packaging-publishing/). This will be the second time this lesson is taught. We will will collect feedback to improve the materials for others to use them.
You should attend this workshop if:
- You identify with any of the learner personas for the lesson
- You have a rough idea how these tools work and want to firm up your knowledge to convince your research group to adopt more of these practices (eg by teaching the workshop locally later)
A social space like a zoom meeting setup that could be used for either drop-in or scheduled informal, synchronous chats during any lesson development sprints that occur. If the host key is available (eg via slack or Topicbox or other) people can split off into breakout rooms as needed.
Sarah Brown Postdoctoral researcher, Brown University, USA
I am a Data Science Initiative Postdoc at Brown University affiliated to the Division of Applied Mathematics and hosted by Professor Bjorn Sandstede. Previously, I completed a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley with faculty mentor Professor Mike Jordan. I completed a BS in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Biomedical Engineering in 2011 a MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2016 advised by Jennifer Dy both at Northeastern University. My graduate studies were supported by a Draper Laboratory Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. My other professional activities include teaching computational data analysis skills to researchers with The Carpentries and serving as the treasurer emeritus on the Women in Machine Learning, Inc Senior Advisory Council.
26 August 2020: 12h00 UTC
Have you heard that some lessons are being translated into different languages? Would you like to participate in these efforts but you are not sure where to start? Would you like to help but you only speak English? That and more questions will be answered in this practical session. I'll give a general introduction to the history of translation on the Carpentries, where we stand now, what are the tools available, and how it is everything connected together.
You will learn how the translations work, what is needed to do to start a new team of translators in your native language or join one formed already and hopefully we will be able to start translating the Code of Conduct to your native language.
21 July 2020: 17h00 UTC
10 August 2020: 17h00 UTC
This sprint is to welcome new translators to the Spanish translation community.
¿Estás enamorado de las Carpentries? ¿Entiendes suficiente el inglés como para traducir cachitos de una lección? Únete a este sprint para aprender la herramienta que usamos (Transifex) y para empezar a traducir parte de las lecciones de las Carpentries. Tu ayuda será apreciada por millones de hispano-hablantes a lo largo y ancho del planeta!!
David Pérez-Suárez Research Software Engineer, Research IT Services, University College London
David is a research software engineer that doubles as a solar physicist. He has been involved with the Carpentries since 2012. He's an open-everything advocate and he is obsessed with collaborative tools.
21 July 2020: 02h00 UTC
A great opportunity to meet, reconnect and plan future activities with The Carpentries Community in Australia and New Zealand.
03 August 2020: 22h00 UTC
The Carpentries Community in Spanish is growing, and we would like to get to know each other, share our thoughts and aspirations and help each other creating new valuable connections.
Queremos invitar a la comunidad que habla Español a una reunión informal para conocernos y hablar de temas varios y establecer contactos.
Paula A. Martinez National Training Coordinator, National Imaging Facility, Australia
My name is Paula Andrea Martinez. I have a background in Computer Sciences a Masters in Bioinformatics. I completed my PhD in Applied Bioinformatics in 2016 with a focus on analysing genomic diversity with computational methods. I have been a bioinformatician and a trainer of computational skills and data management best practices, for the last three years. I am now part of a national project delivering and coordinating training for the Characterisation Community. The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) funds this project and I work with 10 Universities around Australia. The project lead team is at Monash University and I work from the University of Queensland as part of the National Imaging Facility (NIF central).
11 August 2020: 14h00 UTC
In 2019 the University of Toronto Libraries received funding from the Chief Librarian Innovation Grant to facilitate training of Carpentries instructors across the University of Toronto. Over the past year we have hosted an in-person instructor training session with 24 researchers, staff and students taking part, many of whom then became instructors for one of the 3 workshops from all 3 carpentries areas.
This panel includes perspectives from the folks who wrote the proposal, staff and student views on instructor training, and organizers of the carpentries workshops. We'll share what was valuable, challenging, and unexpected about the membership, and we'll open the session up in advance if the community would like to submit questions for the panelists.
In 2019 the University of Toronto Libraries received funding from the Chief Librarian Innovation Grant to facilitate training of Carpentries instructors across the University of Toronto. Over the past year we have hosted an in-person instructor training session with 24 researchers, staff and students taking part, many of whom then became instructors for one of the 3 workshops from all 3 carpentries areas.
This panel includes perspectives from the folks who wrote the proposal, staff and student views on instructor training, and organizers of the carpentries workshops. We'll share what was valuable, challenging, and unexpected about the membership, and we'll open the session up in advance if the community would like to submit questions for the panelists.
Jordan Pedersen Metadata Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries, Canada
Jordan Pedersen is Metadata Librarian at the University of Toronto Libraries, a certified Carpentries Instructor and a recent graduate from the Master of Information program at the University of Toronto's iSchool.
We have developed a two-day workshop inspired by the Carpentries format and experience. Agriculture is an intensely data-driven field, but many farmers, agronomists, and CCAs don’t have computer science backgrounds. In this two-day workshop, researchers from the University of Illinois teach about free tools you can use with your own farm’s data to improve your fertilizer application rates, look at conditions across time, and more. We will discuss the curriculum's background and intent. This work was sponsored by the Center for Digital Agriculture.
07 August 2020: 13h00 UTC
CarpentryCon Lightning talks session will feature 5 minute talks by Carpentries community members on various data science, open science, open source and core skills work they are involved in.
Neal E. Davis Teaching Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Illinois, USA
Neal E. Davis is a Teaching Assistant Professor, Computer Science at the University of Illinois. Neal received his PhD in 2013 from the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois. His doctoral research involved the simulation of uranium surface chemistry using density functional theory and kinetic Monte Carlo modeling. He also studied chemical engineering and high-performance computing. Davis has worked with the Computational Science and Engineering program at the University of Illinois on developing, promoting, and teaching best practices for engineering and scientific software. He has also worked closely with Software Carpentry since 2013, teaching open science techniques, reproducibility, and task automation to domain researchers. At CS @ ILLINOIS, he continues to promote the communication of key software development concepts and technical best practices between the engineering and computer science communities.
17 August 2020: 22h00 UTC
Learning Goals
- Discuss how to apply strategies for increasing belonging and engagement online to Carpentries workshops
- Analyze hypothetical scenarios and the factors that influence engagement and inclusion
- Share tools/features we have found useful for engaging learners online
- Identify a set of practices to adopt to your next online teaching experience
With the COVID-19 global pandemic and the shift to virtual learning, motivating learners to actively engage during our workshops requires the instructor to thoughtfully adapt their teaching approaches. In this breakout session, instructors will share their own challenges and successes with getting learners to connect to the material and one another while teaching programming remotely. First, we will dive into different principles of belonging and active learning, and brainstorm how best to apply these ideas to the online context. We will then work together to break down some hypothetical scenarios around online learning and propose new ways to address the needs/conflicts presented in each situation. Throughout this session, we will discuss the array of software tools available (e.g. Zoom, Canvas, Google docs) and how their features can be best leveraged to improve the learner experience. By attending this breakout session, participants will be able to interact with other instructors, share fresh teaching ideas, and reflect on their own teaching philosophy.
Engagement in this sprint will be based on note-taking and discussions in breakout rooms.
22 July 2020: 22h00 UTC
Learning Goals:
- Appreciate the diversity of learners and the importance of the affective aspect of learning
- Identify effective strategies for fostering community to improve learner belonging
- Outline categories of instructor talk and their potential effects on learner belonging
- Discuss activities and structural changes that leverage learners from different levels of preparation through differentiated instruction
In an era of social distancing, difficulties in creating an authentic feeling of connection and presence for online learners exacerbates already challenging hurdles to learner persistence in programming. A sense of belonging has long been known to influence learners and their intent to actively engage or even stay in a class. Feelings of belonging are often significantly lower in learners identifying with groups historically underrepresented in STEM. How can we continue to foster belonging even when we are separated by a screen? In this session, we will explore how we can intentionally craft and monitor the structure (e.g. modes of participation) and framing (e.g. instructor talk) of our online workshops to create a positive learning community. Importantly, we will dive into a commonly cited challenge, different background levels of preparation, and discuss ways to address this diversity in learners. Through a differentiated instruction framework, we can identify learner differences and provide flexible content/goals without establishing barriers or setting lower expectations. Through this session, participants will ultimately consider different building blocks for an equitable learning experience and identify small, meaningful steps to improving student belonging when they teach.
Melissa Ko Lecturer and Researcher, Stanford University, USA
Dr. Melissa Ko earned an S.B. in biology from MIT and a PhD in cancer biology from Stanford University. Her graduate research used visualizations and computational modeling to reveal mechanisms of drug resistance in different cancer subtypes and identify more effective treatment combinations. As a current Thinking Matters Fellow at Stanford, Melissa teaches freshmen-level classes including Living with Viruses, The Cancer Problem, and Our Genome, while conducting educational research on how social networks develop among instructors participating in professional development. In addition, Melissa has designed biology courses at other local institutions like Foothill College and Santa Clara University and teaches with the Software/Data Carpentries and Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies to introduce learners to programming in R and Python. Outside of work, Melissa enjoys volunteer work, fun coding projects, cooking, playing video games, reading, and taking her dog for walks in the park.
26 August 2020: 10h00 UTC
In the CodeRefinery project we teach tools and practices for collaborative reproducible research software development, following the Carpentries style of teaching and workshop organization. Due to the outbreak of Covid-19, we were forced to cancel several in-person workshops planned in the spring 2020. As The Carpentries started piloting online workshops, we also shifted our gear to hold online workshops. After successful CodeRefinery online workshop with middle-sized cohort of participants (approximately 25 learners on average per day), we held a 'mega' CodeRefinery online workshop where we accepted 120 registrations as both learners and helpers.
In this panel session, we will present how we ran the workshops including small but critical tactics. (The current plan is that) Organizer, instructor, expert helper, helper, and learner, each of them will present their perspective and discuss our experiences and lessons learned. (Note: If it is difficult to have a panelist for any of the roles, we will try to summarize feedback from those who fall under the role and a lead or co-lead will present on their behalf). This session aims to reach audience that are interested in online workshops and scaling up community, regardless of their roles. We hope that our experiences will provide with some inspiration to the session participants for planning their organization of or participation in workshops.
We will use HackMD as a platform of questions and answers during the panel session and answer them in the QA session at the end. We used HackMD in the Mega CodeRefinery online workshop and thus hope we could demonstrate some advantages of using HackMD
07 August 2020: 10h00 UTC
A great opportunity to meet, reconnect Carpentries community members in Nordic and Baltic countries! We would like to have something between social meetup and breakout discussion where we will discuss interesting and useful topics by sharing our experiences. Ideas for topics would include but not limited to:
- Who's who in the Nordics? Get to know our fellow Carpenters in the Nordic and Baltic countries, brainstorm CarpentryConnect 2021
- How can be better describe the skill level for our participants?
- How can we increase the number of institutions in our region regularly offering Carpentries workshops?
- How can we recruit a more diverse - and more sustainable instructor and helper base?
- Community Building for local communities: Events, meeting places (online, IRL), engagement
- How can we address our learners' needs beyond the 'basic' Carpentries workshops?
- Hands-on: Let's make a website for our community: Inviting for new people, informative, fun, and reliably
Naoe Tatara Regional Coordinator, Code Refinery, Norway
Naoe is the Carpentries and CodeRefinery's Regional Coordinator in the Nordic countries. In the mega CodeRefinery online workshop, she served as Zoom-host. She works at the University of Oslo Library as an advisor within Digital Scholarship services and supports training activities including Carpentries at the university. Naoe's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0049-1634
20 July 2020: 07h00 and 15h00 UTC
At CarpentryCon 2018, the community expressed the will and desire to create a Carpentry-inspired curriculum for teaching new users of High Performance Computing systems how to use such resources effectively. Subsequently the HPC Carpentry GitHub team was created and relevant existing material was repurposed and integrated into a single home. By mid 2020, development in the hpc-carpentry repos has stalled, with only a subset of the original goals met.
In Europe, there are at least two initiatives that have the potential to provide the human resources to refine and extend the teaching material, but with clear goals of their own derived from their own context. We would like to involve the community in a discussion on how to encourage and integrate such initiatives to help sustain the development of the existing material, and extend it to new topics.
For this, we propose a breakout session composed of
- a review of activity to date
- series of lightning talks by different stake holders
- an open discussion on how to move forward.
Alan O'Cais E-CAM Software Manager, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Germany
20 July 2020: 07h00 and 15h00 UTC
At CarpentryCon 2018, the community expressed the will and desire to create a Carpentry-inspired curriculum for teaching new users of High Performance Computing systems how to use such resources effectively. Subsequently the HPC Carpentry GitHub team was created and relevant existing material was repurposed and integrated into a single home. By mid 2020, development in the hpc-carpentry repos has stalled, with only a subset of the original goals met.
In Europe, there are at least two initiatives that have the potential to provide the human resources to refine and extend the teaching material, but with clear goals of their own derived from their own context. We would like to involve the community in a discussion on how to encourage and integrate such initiatives to help sustain the development of the existing material, and extend it to new topics.
For this, we propose a breakout session composed of
- a review of activity to date
- series of lightning talks by different stake holders
- an open discussion on how to move forward.
Peter Steinbach Helmholtz AI Consultants Team Lead for Matter Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
31 July 2020: 21h00 UTC
Puzzled Pint (http://www.puzzledpint.com/) is a group that releases a monthly set of puzzles to be done w/ friends over a pint. Puzzles include letter and word games, decoding, and more. Let's get together over a virtual pint, form teams, and solve the July puzzles!
27 August 2020: 20h00 UTC
28 August 2020: 10h00 and 15h00 UTC
Suggested by Sara El-Gebali - we'd like to create a space for people to offer feedback about CarpentryCon @ Home at the end of the conference.
Christina Koch Research Computing Facilitator, Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC), Wisconsin, USA
24 August 2020: 02h00 UTC
In this session, we demonstrate how the constraints of reverse design reduce the uncertainty of a blank page titled 'Lesson 1'. Nowhere does the Carpentries demonstrate the full cycle of instructional design. We propose this workshop - co-developed by two experienced instructors - using this approach. The process of the development of this workshop is documented and shared as the content of the workshop. Attendees will see how learner personas, faded examples, concept maps, formative and summative assessment create requirements for lesson design.
We provide a worked example of the reverse design process without any assumptions of prior computational knowledge. After the workshop, attendees can combine their experience of the lesson we developed with the process of development, which we share with them, to apply this framework to their own training work.
Darya Vanichkina Data Analytics Trainer and Data Scientist , Sydney Informatics Hub, Australia
Hi! I'm Darya, a Data Scientist & Professional Educator. I work at the University of Sydney's Informatics Hub as a data science consultant, supporting researchers from across the university by solving their big (and not-so-big) data problems. I also coordinate SIH's data science training program, where I mentor staff in best teaching practices, develop and deliver advanced analytics training for researchers.
I'm passionate about using data to understand the world, and love solving real problems using data science, machine learning, statistics and high-performance/cloud computing. I've had a lot of amazing opportunities in my life, and my way of giving back to the universe for them is to train and teach.
I'm proud to be a Software and Data Carpentry Instructor, Maintainer, Curriculum Contributor, and Mentor, and am passionate about enabling reproducible research using open source tools. I'm also an RStudio certified trainer; reach out to me here if you're interested in custom corporate training.
19 August 2020: 14h00 UTC
Although Spyder is mentioned in some data carpentry lessons it is not treated with the depth it should be.
Since Spyder is pre-installed on Anaconda, the platform suggested in some Python's Carpentries lessons, it is worth highlighting the advantages of using this IDE from the point of view of researchers interested in programming.
This workshop consists of solving a programming problem from a simple to a more finished version by emphasizing Spyder's capabilities for code execution, debugging, profiling, code style, documentation strings, use of the variable browser, and unit testing.
16 July 2020: 16h00 UTC
The current Carpentries git lesson introduces collaboration to learners by adding individuals as a collaborator to the repository. However, this type of collaboration workflow does not scale past more than a couple of collaborators before conflicts become unbearable.
Depending on when you joined the carpentries, you may be familar with the forking workflow for collaboration to make a change to an existing lesson but, there is no formal guide to new instructors on how they can learn the skills needed to become a lesson maintainer.
As a community of practice, we are always learning, and maintaining our teaching materials need a steady influx of new maintainers to keep our lessons up-to-date.
This skill-up is an extension to the current software-carpentry Git lesson for those who are thinking about becoming a lesson maintainer and want to learn about the forking-branching-PR skills needed while maintaining lessons. It also supports current and new maintainers who want a more solid foundation for the commands and workflows they are using while maintaining lessons. The skill-up would cover the forking model of collaboration, how to create and merge branches, how to submit pull requests in this collaboration model, and how to edit and update branches before accepting changes for open source projects.
Daniel Chen PhD Student, Virginia Tech, USA
I am a PhD student at Virginia Tech (VT) in Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology ( GBCB ) working with Anne Brown and DataBridge studying data science education and pedagogy for medicial practitioners. Former RStudio intern working on the gradethis package.
Arch Linux user maintaining the RStudio Preview , nteract , and Rodeo packages in the AUR .
Author of Pandas for Everyone .Enjoys: photography , curling, snowboarding, and scuba diving into caves.
06 August 2020: 16h00 UTC
The Carpentries exist so that people don't have to teach themselves how to program, but ironically, most members of the Carpentry community have had to learn how to coordinate groups on their own. This talk lays out ten simple rules for running an effective meeting, and will help you get more done in less time and with less pain.
Greg Wilson Educator, RStudio, Canada
I left academia in 2010 and spent the next seven years building Software Carpentry into a non-profit organization that helps thousands of researchers worldwide every year. I also helped organize a summit meeting of grassroots groups trying to improve inclusion and diversity in the tech sector, edited a book on evidence-based software engineering and a series on software architecture, and wrote some more children's books.
I left Software Carpentry in January 2017, and after a brief stints with Rangle.io (sponsors of the wonderful Bridge program) and DataCamp (which ended badly), I am now in the Education group at RStudio, makers of a world-class IDE and other fine tools. My main responsibility is RStudio's instructor training and certification program, but my job gives me a chance to do a lot of other things, including a book called Teaching Tech Together and another on JavaScript for data scientists.
25 August 2020: 14h00 UTC
Leadership skills such as openness, inclusivity, project road mapping, and community building are essential for modern science and research today. Despite this, these skills are rarely taught.
br>We believe that scientists and researchers should learn how to effectively lead projects openly, collaboratively, and thoughtfully from day one.To facilitate this, we created Open Life Science (http://openlifesci.org/), a 16-week training and mentorship program that prepares early career researchers and academic leaders to become open science ambassadors for their own projects but for the communities around them.
In this session, we will discuss mentoring and training our members in Open Science skills, introduce to the Open Life Science (OLS) program's open source resources, and run a “taster session” where we will touch on some of the important aspects of open research, whilst giving it the feel of a collaborative, informative and classic OLS full-cohort call.
29 July 2020: 09h00 UTC
Ally Skills Session will aim to have open discussions with people interested in learning how to step up and use their societal advantages to support others in your workplace and communities. This session is intended to be 1.5 hours long.
After a short introduction, we will break out in smaller groups to discuss real-world scenarios in which an ally could take action. Each group will then report-out and share their insight.Participants will learn ally skills by practicing them in discussion groups: listening, amplifying voices, apologizing and correcting themselves, and more.
The workshop will end with each participant setting a specific goal for their future ally work. The trainers are trained by Valerie Aurora through her workshop from Frameshift Consulting. Materials are available online openly here (https://frameshiftconsulting.com/ally-skills-workshop/).
Yo Yehudi Open Source Developer, Intermine, UK
I'm Yo Yehudi, a software engineer at InterMine, an open source biological data platform at the University of Cambridge. I'm comfortable coding full stack, but my favourite bit of all is the place software intersects with people: the User Interface. Mockups, codes, and user testing are my bread and butter.
Code and data are important research output and integral to a full understanding of research findings and experimental approaches in a paper. However, traditional research articles seldom have these embedded in the manuscript’s narrative, but instead, leave them as 'supplementary materials', if they are openly available.
With Executable Research Articles (ERAs), eLife's vision is to enrich the traditional narrative of a research article with code, data and interactive figures that can be executed in the browser, downloaded and explored. It will give readers a direct insight into the methods, algorithms and key data behind the published research.
We realised that to incentivise authors to publish ERAs, we need to make this process of composing and publishing an ERA extremely easy and interoperable with existing authoring tools that our authors use.
In 3 minutes, I hope show one of the ways our authors can compose an ERA– we'd love to invite members of the Carpentries community to test our tool stack out and offer feedback.
07 August 2020: 13h00 UTC
CarpentryCon Lightning talks session will feature 5 minute talks by Carpentries community members on various data science, open science, open source and core skills work they are involved in.
Emmy Tsang Innovation Community Manager, eLife, UK
Emmy Tsang is the Innovation Community Manager at eLife, a non-profit organisation with the mission to accelerate research communication and discovery. She is responsible for the day-to-day running of the eLife Innovation Initiative, which supports the development of open-source tools, technologies and processes aimed at improving the discovery, sharing, consumption and evaluation of scientific research. She is passionate about building communities, fostering collaborations and developing technological solutions to make research more open, reproducible and user-friendly.
07 August 2020: 10h00 UTC
A great opportunity to meet, reconnect Carpentries community members in Nordic and Baltic countries! We would like to have something between social meetup and breakout discussion where we will discuss interesting and useful topics by sharing our experiences. Ideas for topics would include but not limited to:
- Who's who in the Nordics? Get to know our fellow Carpenters in the Nordic and Baltic countries, brainstorm CarpentryConnect 2021
- How can be better describe the skill level for our participants?
- How can we increase the number of institutions in our region regularly offering Carpentries workshops?
- How can we recruit a more diverse - and more sustainable instructor and helper base?
- Community Building for local communities: Events, meeting places (online, IRL), engagement
- How can we address our learners' needs beyond the 'basic' Carpentries workshops?
- Hands-on: Let's make a website for our community: Inviting for new people, informative, fun, and reliably
Annika Rockenberger Research Data Management Advisor, University of Oslo Library
Annika works at the University of Oslo Library as an advisor for research data management and serves as the local coordinator of Carpentries activities. She has a background in the humanities and research experience with a variety of digital projects. Since 2015 she's been involved with the Carpentries, since 2018 as a certified instructor and since 2020 as an instructor trainer.
29 July 2020: 16h00 UTC
As more libraries get involved with the Carpentries we are seeing exciting collaborations and partnerships develop around Carpentries workshops. Some academic libraries have partnered with other departments on campus to co-fund membership, other academic and public libraries have worked with their regional partners to create more formal Carpentries consortia, and others are building informal teaching networks that bridge different types of libraries. The new virtual teaching environment is also reducing barriers to collaboration and opening up new opportunities for co-teaching across institutional and regional boundaries. These partnerships can be a way to reduce workshops costs and teaching burnout, and create more sustainable teaching and learning networks.
This breakout session will give librarians and library staff from academic, public, and special libraries a chance to share their successes collaborating on all kinds of Carpentries workshops. We will also brainstorm new ways in which we might build viable Carpentry networks in our communities.
Ariel Deardorff Data Services Librarian, University of California San Francisco Library, USA
14 July 2020: 08h00 UTC
The Library Carpentry Wikidata lesson (https://github.com/LibraryCarpentry/lc-wikidata) aims to introduce the linked open data platform Wikidata to people working in libraries and was created with contribution from the WikiCite community. It covers the basic ideas behind Wikidata, editing and creation of entries as well as querying of Wikidata using the querying language SPARQL. The lesson will soon be ready to be used in workshops and will be taught to test audiences. In this half day sprit we would like to fill gaps and further improve the lesson.
The Library Carpentry Wikidata lesson aims to introduce the linked open data platform Wikidata to people working in libraries and was created with contribution from the WikiCite community. It covers the basic ideas behind Wikidata, editing and creation of entries as well as querying of Wikidata using the querying language SPARQL. The lesson will soon be ready to be used in workshops and will be taught to test audiences. In this lightning talk we would like to give a short overview to the lesson and collect feedback for further improvements.
07 August 2020: 13h00 UTC
CarpentryCon Lightning talks session will feature 5 minute talks by Carpentries community members on various data science, open science, open source and core skills work they are involved in.
Konrad Förstner Data Services Librarian, ZB MED, Germany
I am a researcher in the field of in bioinformatics / computational biology / systems biology. My methodical focus is the integration and interpretation of large data sets - mainly generated using high-throughput sequencing technologies but also text corpora - with the aim to translate them into biological and medical insights. As part of that I am advocating open science with all its facets (data, publications, source code of research software, educational resources, publication metrics etc.) and am active in several groups/communities promoting this.
I will be talking about how easy it is simulating difficult mathematical concepts with programming.The talk will show how the process of simulating it helps in understanding. I will be using Monty Hall as an example and walk through its program. This talk is targeted towards programmers.
20 August 2020: 06h00 UTC
20 August 2020: 14h00 UTC
The Library Carpentry FAIR Data & Software lesson aims to introduce researchers and librarians to FAIRer (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) research data and software management and development practices. Lesson content is based on the 2018 FAIR Data and Software: A Carpentries-based workshop at TIB, Hannover (https://tibhannover.github.io/2018-07-09-FAIR-Data-and-Software/) with additional contributions since. The lesson is still in the early design / pre-alpha stage and this half day sprint will allow maintainers and contributors to map out next steps towards furthering the lesson.
27 August 2020 from 02h00 UTC
to 28 August 2020: 22h00 UTC
The Library Carpentry FAIR Data & Software lesson aims to introduce researchers and librarians to FAIRer (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) research data and software management and development practices. Lesson content is based on the 2018 FAIR Data and Software: A Carpentries-based workshop at TIB, Hannover (https://tibhannover.github.io/2018-07-09-FAIR-Data-and-Software/) with additional contributions since. The lesson is still in the early design / pre-alpha stage and this half day sprint will allow maintainers and contributors to map out next steps towards furthering the lesson.
Sprint Zoom Timetable
| Event Coordinators: | Liz (Sydney - AU) | Kristina (Leiden - NL) | Chris (Raleigh - USA) |
|---|---|---|---|
| THURSDAY AUG 27 | |||
| Sprint kick off for local time | Hosting UTC 2:am Thurs Sydney 12noon Duration 1 hour | ||
| AU/ NZ / beyond? | UTC 3-5am Sprinting Sydney 1-3pm | ||
| First check in and baton pass | UTC 6am Sydney 4pm Duration 1 hour | Leiden 8am Duration 1 hour | |
| Europe / UK | UTC 7-9 Sprinting Leiden 9-11am | ||
| Second check in and baton pass | UTC 2pm Leiden 4pm | UTC 2pm Raleigh 10am | |
| USA | UTC 3pm+ Sprinting | ||
| Third check in and baton pass | UTC 9pm THURS Sydney FRI 7am | UTC 9pm Raleigh 5pm | |
| FRIDAY AUG 28 | |||
| AU/ NZ / beyond? | Review/update/wrap up UTC 3-5am Sydney Fri 1-3pm | ||
| First check in and baton pass | UTC 6am FRI Sydney 4pm Duration 1 hour | UTC 6am FRI Leiden 8am Duration 1 hour | |
| Europe / UK | Review/update/wrap up UTC 7-9am Leiden 9-11am | ||
| Second check in and baton pass | UTC 2pm Leiden 4pm | UTC 2pm Raleigh 10am | |
| USA | Review/update/wrap up | ||
| *IF NEEDED* Third check in and baton pass | Sydney 7am (Saturday 29th Aug) | Raleigh 5pm |
Kristina Hettne Digital Scholarship Librarian, Leiden University Libraries, Netherlands
Kristina Hettne (1978), PhD, is a Digital Scholarship Librarian at the Centre for Digital Scholarship, Leiden University Libraries in Leiden, The Netherlands. She obtained her Masters in Computer Science from Skövde University in Sweden in 2003 and shortly thereafter joined the computational toxicology group at AstraZeneca R&D in Mölndal, Sweden as a research scientist. In 2006, she moved to the Netherlands to pursue her PhD degree in bioinformatics of toxicogenomics, which she obtained from the University of Maastricht in 2012. In 2011 she joined the BioSemantics group at the Leiden University Medical Center as postdoctoral researcher. From 2015 to 2018 she led the group’s research on knowledge discovery applications as a senior researcher. In October 2018 she joined the Centre for Digital Scholarship at the Leiden University Libraries as a Digital Scholarship Librarian, where she helps researchers navigate Open Science and shape the future of research data management. She is the Centre’s liaison with GO FAIR and part of the FAIR Convergence Matrix development team for optimiSing the reuse of existing FAIR-related resources. She is a review editor for “Frontiers in Big Data”, member of the Advisory Board of the Wiley journal “Advanced Genetics”, and co-author of more than 35 research publications.
This lightning talk highlights the ongoing work being done among Carpentries instructors at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries to encourage inclusive language in data science and data management education. We expand upon existing training for Carpentries instructors which encourages us to avoid the use of “simple” and “easy” in our instruction, and offer additional considerations for inclusive language that is mindful of neurodiversity/neurodivergence, institutional access to resources, religion, and socioeconomic situations. “Best Practices” in data science and data management education often assume the researcher is operating at a baseline socioeconomic level, with access to certain institutional services, and having certain cognitive and physical abilities. Using a “calling in” approach, we identify opportunities within “Best Practices” to use compassionate language and considerations for accessibility. As a lightning talk, we will focus our three minutes on providing succinct examples of inclusive language opportunities, and provide the audience with information for learning more and getting involved in our efforts.
The target audience for this lightning talk is anyone who teaches (or hopes to teach) Carpentries workshops and wants to incorporate more inclusive language into their curriculum that is mindful of the many lenses through which a learner approaches their data science education. With this lightning talk, we hope to gather a network of interested individuals who would like to further collaborate with CMU Libraries on creating blueprints for more inclusive data science and data management education, as well as inspire current and future Carpentries instructors to use inclusive language in their workshops.
07 August 2020: 13h00 UTC
CarpentryCon Lightning talks session will feature 5 minute talks by Carpentries community members on various data science, open science, open source and core skills work they are involved in.
Hannah C. Gunderman Research Data Management Consultant, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, USA
Hannah C. Gunderman is a Research Data Management Consultant with Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. She is relatively new to librarianship, having earned a Ph.D. in Geography in 2018 and working for several years in human geography research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory before shifting careers. Her research interests include using popular culture to teach data science, inclusivity in data management education, and cultural geography. In her free time, she enjoys video games and hanging out with her dogs and cats.
15 July 2020: 17h00 UTC
23 July 2020: 21h00 UTC
The Carpentries Core Team will be inviting experienced instructors who have ran Carpentries workshops online so far to share their experiences in a themed discussion format. This platform will also allow instructors to share ideas and ask questions related to teaching online workshops. The discussion will take place over two timeslots allowing instructors from various time zones the opportunity to attend the breakout session.
Angelique van Rensburg Regional Consultant for Southern Africa, The Carpentries
Angelique, PhD (Educational Psychology), is the Regional Consultant for Southern Africa at The Carpentries Angelique aims at developing strategies and workflows to adapt The Carpentries' membership and workshop programs to function optimally in Southern Africa. In addition the role aims to assist and advise in developing a plan to create and support a strong team of volunteer instructors across the regions.
05 August 2020: 17h00 UTC
We value scientific meetings because they provide opportunities to interact with our colleagues to share our research, build our skills, and launch new collaborations. Because of the value placed on these gatherings, conference organizers have been reluctant during the pandemic to cancel scheduled meetings and instead have gone through great lengths to quickly pivot to online formats to continue to meet the needs of their community members. In moving to online platforms, conference organizers can no longer default to traditional in-person practices, which can be exclusive to participants who may already feel marginalized in their communities. Rather, organizers can be proactive about innovating inclusive conference practices. In this breakout discussion, we’ll share challenges in planning meetings, how we can turn these challenges into opportunities, and benefits of transitioning to virtual meetings.
Emily A. Lescak Data Science Community Conference and Events Fund Program Manager , Code for Science and Society
Dr. Emily Lescak is the Data Science Community Conference and Events Fund Program Manager at Code for Science and Society, where she has developed a grants program to support events that promote inclusive practices and broaden participation in research-driven open data science communities. She has nearly 10 years of experience working in research data science focused on population genetics, evolution, and management of Alaskan fish populations. Emily has a strong background in mentoring and leadership in science advocacy initiatives.
In order to support the use of data in various contexts, it is important to have champions who demonstrate the value of tools, shepherd new users, and provide support to those learning to use data. In this talk, I’ll cover my experiences with data community building and share strategies from open source communities. I’ll discuss the value of the data community builder and their role within / outside of institutions for encouraging uptake of technical tools. Some of the skills needed for these roles may not be what you think: building relationships, being empathetic toward use cases (and users!), organizing events, teaching effectively, and setting strategy for expanding data networks, among others. This is a shortened version of the csv,conf I gave linked here: bit.ly/2020-05-csvconf
26 August 2020: 21h00 UTC
27 August 2020: 15h00 UTC
On 26 August 2020 at 21h00 UTC and 27 August 2020 at 15h00 UTC, a few community builders and wranglers will come together in two fireside chats to discuss different challenges, ideas and approaches around Growing Inclusive, Computational Communities and Leaders. Please fill this form with any questions or topics you would like to be part of the agenda for the fireside chats and we will make sure to include them in the discussions.
07 August 2020: 13h00 UTC
CarpentryCon Lightning talks session will feature 5 minute talks by Carpentries community members on various data science, open science, open source and core skills work they are involved in.
Angela Li Spatial data science/education, GeoDa Center, University of Chicago, USA
I'm currently working as the R Spatial Advocate for the Center for Spatial Data Science at UChicago. Most recently, I did data science for transit at TransLoc and wrote a spatial econometrics thesis on the Detroit housing market. I am also Maintainer Community Lead for The Carpentries.
14 July 2020: 08h00 UTC
The Library Carpentry Wikidata lesson (https://github.com/LibraryCarpentry/lc-wikidata) aims to introduce the linked open data platform Wikidata to people working in libraries and was created with contribution from the WikiCite community. It covers the basic ideas behind Wikidata, editing and creation of entries as well as querying of Wikidata using the querying language SPARQL. The lesson will soon be ready to be used in workshops and will be taught to test audiences. In this half day sprit we would like to fill gaps and further improve the lesson.
07 August 2020: 13h00 UTC
CarpentryCon Lightning talks session will feature 5 minute talks by Carpentries community members on various data science, open science, open source and core skills work they are involved in.
Rabea Müller Library Science student, TH Köln -- University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Rabea is studying Library Science at the TH Köln -- University of Applied Sciences and is member of the Data Science and Services department of ZB MED. She is involved in several activites in the Carpentries community as an Instructor and Maintainer.
26 August 2020: 10h00 UTC
In the CodeRefinery project we teach tools and practices for collaborative reproducible research software development, following the Carpentries style of teaching and workshop organization. Due to the outbreak of Covid-19, we were forced to cancel several in-person workshops planned in the spring 2020. As The Carpentries started piloting online workshops, we also shifted our gear to hold online workshops. After successful CodeRefinery online workshop with middle-sized cohort of participants (approximately 25 learners on average per day), we held a 'mega' CodeRefinery online workshop where we accepted 120 registrations as both learners and helpers.
In this panel session, we will present how we ran the workshops including small but critical tactics. (The current plan is that) Organizer, instructor, expert helper, helper, and learner, each of them will present their perspective and discuss our experiences and lessons learned. (Note: If it is difficult to have a panelist for any of the roles, we will try to summarize feedback from those who fall under the role and a lead or co-lead will present on their behalf). This session aims to reach audience that are interested in online workshops and scaling up community, regardless of their roles. We hope that our experiences will provide with some inspiration to the session participants for planning their organization of or participation in workshops.
We will use HackMD as a platform of questions and answers during the panel session and answer them in the QA session at the end. We used HackMD in the Mega CodeRefinery online workshop and thus hope we could demonstrate some advantages of using HackMD
Radovan Bast Senior Research Software Engineer, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Radovan is the project leader of the CodeRefinery project and has taught in many CodeRefinery workshops, both in-person and online. In the mega CodeRefinery workshop, he served as both instructor and expert helper. Working as senior engineer in a research software engineer role at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
26 August 2020: 10h00 UTC
In the CodeRefinery project we teach tools and practices for collaborative reproducible research software development, following the Carpentries style of teaching and workshop organization. Due to the outbreak of Covid-19, we were forced to cancel several in-person workshops planned in the spring 2020. As The Carpentries started piloting online workshops, we also shifted our gear to hold online workshops. After successful CodeRefinery online workshop with middle-sized cohort of participants (approximately 25 learners on average per day), we held a 'mega' CodeRefinery online workshop where we accepted 120 registrations as both learners and helpers.
In this panel session, we will present how we ran the workshops including small but critical tactics. (The current plan is that) Organizer, instructor, expert helper, helper, and learner, each of them will present their perspective and discuss our experiences and lessons learned. (Note: If it is difficult to have a panelist for any of the roles, we will try to summarize feedback from those who fall under the role and a lead or co-lead will present on their behalf). This session aims to reach audience that are interested in online workshops and scaling up community, regardless of their roles. We hope that our experiences will provide with some inspiration to the session participants for planning their organization of or participation in workshops.
We will use HackMD as a platform of questions and answers during the panel session and answer them in the QA session at the end. We used HackMD in the Mega CodeRefinery online workshop and thus hope we could demonstrate some advantages of using HackMD
Richard Darst Staff Scientist, Aalto University, Finland
Richard is a HPC and Scientific Computing Specialist with emphasis on Research Software Engineering, training, and usability. He took initiative of the mega CodeRefinery online workshop and was the lead organizer, HackMD master, and expert helper. He has been a member of CodeRefinery since 2017. He works as a staff scientist at Aalto Scientific Computing, Aalto University, Finland with connections to Computer Science-IT and Research Services (Data Agent) teams.
26 August 2020: 10h00 UTC
In the CodeRefinery project we teach tools and practices for collaborative reproducible research software development, following the Carpentries style of teaching and workshop organization. Due to the outbreak of Covid-19, we were forced to cancel several in-person workshops planned in the spring 2020. As The Carpentries started piloting online workshops, we also shifted our gear to hold online workshops. After successful CodeRefinery online workshop with middle-sized cohort of participants (approximately 25 learners on average per day), we held a 'mega' CodeRefinery online workshop where we accepted 120 registrations as both learners and helpers.
In this panel session, we will present how we ran the workshops including small but critical tactics. (The current plan is that) Organizer, instructor, expert helper, helper, and learner, each of them will present their perspective and discuss our experiences and lessons learned. (Note: If it is difficult to have a panelist for any of the roles, we will try to summarize feedback from those who fall under the role and a lead or co-lead will present on their behalf). This session aims to reach audience that are interested in online workshops and scaling up community, regardless of their roles. We hope that our experiences will provide with some inspiration to the session participants for planning their organization of or participation in workshops.
We will use HackMD as a platform of questions and answers during the panel session and answer them in the QA session at the end. We used HackMD in the Mega CodeRefinery online workshop and thus hope we could demonstrate some advantages of using HackMD
Anne Fouilloux Staff Scientist, University of Oslo, Norway
Anne is an experienced instructor in the CodeRefinery, Carpentries, and a series of training workshops. She served as both instructor and expert helper in the mega CodeRefinery online workshop. She works as a Research Software Engineer at the Department of Geosciences at University of Oslo.
20 July 2020: 17h00 UTC
Non-profits and volunteer led organizations are subject to a predictable lifecycle. The early excitement of new ideas is generated by a small group. This early energy is slowly replaced by growth and stability sustained by a larger group through creation of some form of governance and management. Local Carpentries organizations are subject to the same constraints as other volunteer led groups. One of the predictable problems as organizations mature is burnout or attrition of volunteers which, if not addressed, leads to a decline curve and ultimately dissolution of the local community. We plan to describe the characteristics of the organizational lifecycle and our experiences implementing measures to encourage continued growth. We will encourage both Carpentries volunteers and learners provide their viewpoints as we discuss the following:
- Where is your local Carpentries in the organizational lifecycle? What are the characteristics that can determine whether your community is growing or has become stagnant?
- The best way to assess the health of the organization is to answer the question “Are we accomplishing our mission?” Has your community clarified your mission? Who is your community? Is it diverse or are there groups who are not well represented? How can these groups contribute to the community and how can they be engaged?
- What is unique about Carpentries compared to other non-profit, volunteer led organizations? Why will these characteristics make it harder or easier to create continued growth?
- After you have identified the characteristics of your community and clarified your mission, it is time to brainstorm some ways to renew and re-energize, moving from the mature or stagnant decline stage back to healthy growth. Newer communities can consider how to anticipate and plan for this stage of their lifecycle.
Nathalia Graf Grachet, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher, Tfaily lab, University of Arizona, USA
Nathalia is originally from Brazil. She received a B.S. in Agricultural Engineering in 2012, attended graduate school at Oklahoma State University. She received her M.S. in Entomology and Plant Pathology in 2015, and her Ph.D. in Plant Pathology studying plant-pathogen interactions of bermudagrass and the soil-borne fungal pathogens of spring dead spot. Nathalia's research interests broadened when she attended two computational biology courses at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 2017 and 2018. She learned the basics of Python programming and bioinformatics, and fell in love! She became a certified instructor for the Software and Data Carpentry in the Fall of 2018, and have taught campus-wide workshops in a variety of topics including Python and Unix command line. Nathalia joined the Tfaily lab in October 2019. Currently, she is developing data analysis pipelines for a variety of research projects in the Tfaily lab, including soil organic matter composition by mass spectrometry techniques, microbial community, multi-omics data integration.
20 July 2020: 17h00 UTC
Non-profits and volunteer led organizations are subject to a predictable lifecycle. The early excitement of new ideas is generated by a small group. This early energy is slowly replaced by growth and stability sustained by a larger group through creation of some form of governance and management. Local Carpentries organizations are subject to the same constraints as other volunteer led groups. One of the predictable problems as organizations mature is burnout or attrition of volunteers which, if not addressed, leads to a decline curve and ultimately dissolution of the local community. We plan to describe the characteristics of the organizational lifecycle and our experiences implementing measures to encourage continued growth. We will encourage both Carpentries volunteers and learners provide their viewpoints as we discuss the following:
- Where is your local Carpentries in the organizational lifecycle? What are the characteristics that can determine whether your community is growing or has become stagnant?
- The best way to assess the health of the organization is to answer the question “Are we accomplishing our mission?” Has your community clarified your mission? Who is your community? Is it diverse or are there groups who are not well represented? How can these groups contribute to the community and how can they be engaged?
- What is unique about Carpentries compared to other non-profit, volunteer led organizations? Why will these characteristics make it harder or easier to create continued growth?
- After you have identified the characteristics of your community and clarified your mission, it is time to brainstorm some ways to renew and re-energize, moving from the mature or stagnant decline stage back to healthy growth. Newer communities can consider how to anticipate and plan for this stage of their lifecycle.
Phillip Doehle Digital Services Librarian, Oklahoma State University, USA
Phillip Doehle - Phillip is the Digital Services Librarian at Oklahoma State University. He coordinates the university's Carpentries initiative, teaching introductory data-science skills to researchers. He has been actively involved in the Carpentries since 2015. Phillip holds a Master's degree in applied math from Oklahoma State University.
20 July 2020: 17h00 UTC
Non-profits and volunteer led organizations are subject to a predictable lifecycle. The early excitement of new ideas is generated by a small group. This early energy is slowly replaced by growth and stability sustained by a larger group through creation of some form of governance and management. Local Carpentries organizations are subject to the same constraints as other volunteer led groups. One of the predictable problems as organizations mature is burnout or attrition of volunteers which, if not addressed, leads to a decline curve and ultimately dissolution of the local community. We plan to describe the characteristics of the organizational lifecycle and our experiences implementing measures to encourage continued growth. We will encourage both Carpentries volunteers and learners provide their viewpoints as we discuss the following:
- Where is your local Carpentries in the organizational lifecycle? What are the characteristics that can determine whether your community is growing or has become stagnant?
- The best way to assess the health of the organization is to answer the question “Are we accomplishing our mission?” Has your community clarified your mission? Who is your community? Is it diverse or are there groups who are not well represented? How can these groups contribute to the community and how can they be engaged?
- What is unique about Carpentries compared to other non-profit, volunteer led organizations? Why will these characteristics make it harder or easier to create continued growth?
- After you have identified the characteristics of your community and clarified your mission, it is time to brainstorm some ways to renew and re-energize, moving from the mature or stagnant decline stage back to healthy growth. Newer communities can consider how to anticipate and plan for this stage of their lifecycle.
Clarke Iakovakis Scholarly Services Librarian, Oklahoma State University, USA
Clarke started as the Scholarly Services Librarian at Oklahoma State University in August, 2018. He has been working in both public and academic libraries for over 10 years, serving as a shelver, a circulation clerk, a reference and instruction librarian, an electronic thesis & dissertation coordinator, and most recently in scholarly communications. He is currently attempting to finish his master's thesis for a History degree from the University of Houston-Clear Lake on the origins of the Department of Homeland Security. Clarke serves as an instructor for the OSU Carpentries and is a lesson maintainer for the Library Carpentry R module.
04 August 2020: 21h00 UTC
In this session we hope to bring together text-as-data practitioners and those in academic support roles to discuss models for building communities related to computational text analysis. Many early career scholars interested in text analytics find themselves at institutions that provide little direct support for learning and practicing emerging methods related to text as data (e.g., topic modeling or sentiment analysis). Even where expertise does exist on a particular campus, it can be difficult for an individual scholar —- especially those in the humanities or social sciences—to bridge disciplinary and bureaucratic boundaries to find peers and mentors in computational research areas. The Carpentries offer one helpful foundation for learning essential data science tools; this session explores opportunities for building upon that foundation to address the growing needs and interests of scholars in text analytics.
At our institution, we recently initiated the Text as Data Practice Group, a discipline-agnostic monthly gathering for scholars to experiment and learn from each other, from local experts, and from open access tutorials in a social setting. The group operates in the spirit of creating community, nurturing peer-to-peer learning, and exploring emerging text and data analysis methods on campus. We plan to provide an overview of this program, and then lead participants through discussion prompts to share their own thoughts about successes, challenges, and opportunities related to building communities for text as data. Participants will learn about different models to develop and nurture communities in computational research.
Alexis Logsdon Humanities Research and Digital Scholarship Librarian, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA
Alexis Logsdon (she/her/hers) is Humanities Research and Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
04 August 2020: 21h00 UTC
In this session we hope to bring together text-as-data practitioners and those in academic support roles to discuss models for building communities related to computational text analysis. Many early career scholars interested in text analytics find themselves at institutions that provide little direct support for learning and practicing emerging methods related to text as data (e.g., topic modeling or sentiment analysis). Even where expertise does exist on a particular campus, it can be difficult for an individual scholar —- especially those in the humanities or social sciences—to bridge disciplinary and bureaucratic boundaries to find peers and mentors in computational research areas. The Carpentries offer one helpful foundation for learning essential data science tools; this session explores opportunities for building upon that foundation to address the growing needs and interests of scholars in text analytics.
At our institution, we recently initiated the Text as Data Practice Group, a discipline-agnostic monthly gathering for scholars to experiment and learn from each other, from local experts, and from open access tutorials in a social setting. The group operates in the spirit of creating community, nurturing peer-to-peer learning, and exploring emerging text and data analysis methods on campus. We plan to provide an overview of this program, and then lead participants through discussion prompts to share their own thoughts about successes, challenges, and opportunities related to building communities for text as data. Participants will learn about different models to develop and nurture communities in computational research.
Wanda Marsolek Engineering Liaison and Data Curation Librarian, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA
Wanda Marsolek (they/them/theirs) is the Engineering Liaison and Data Curation Librarian at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
11 August 2020: 16h00 UTC
Open Computational Inclusion and Digital Equity Resource (OpenCIDER)is a space for knowledge sharing regarding data management and analysis, computational training, and building inclusive communities to advance participation in open research and innovation.
The aim is to address the lack of diversity of underrepresented groups in open research by encouraging the development of tools and portable solutions adapted to resources of a wide variety of audiences such as those from low and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Our vision is to create a valuable resource that serves as a space for:
knowledge-sharing, advice, good practices, workflows, and a list of tools to facilitate
- computational training and research data management.
- ideas for the development of accessible, adaptable technical solutions.
- a community of researchers, from diverse backgrounds, to connect and collaborate.
We encourage those interested in open research practices, computational training, and community building to join us in this sprint to share their experiences to help develop guidelines for:
- Virtual workshop for audience in LMICs
- Inclusive space for the hackathon
- Accessible software design
Engagement in this sprint will be based on note-taking and discussions in breakout rooms.
Nazeefa Fatima Co-founder, Open Computational Inclusion and Digital Equity Resource (OpenCIDER)
I am a computational biologist based in Sweden. I studied bioinformatics at the Lunds Universitet and, during my studies, I developed skills in data analysis for genomics and transcriptomics research. After completing masters, I worked for the National Genomics Infrastructure. Besides research, I contribute my time to RSG-Sweden and the International Society of Computational Biology. I care about mental health, accessible research, community building, and increasing visibility of people underrepresented in the field of computational biology.
15 July 2020: 13h00 UTC
Generating insight and conclusions from scientific data is not always a straightforward process. Data is often hard to find, archived in difficult to use formats, poorly structured and/or incomplete. These issues create friction and make it difficult to use, publish and share data. The Frictionless Data initiative (frictionlessdata.io) at Open Knowledge Foundation (okfn.org) aims to reduce friction in working with data, with a goal to make it effortless to transport data among different tools and platforms for further analysis, and with an emphasis on reproducible research and open data. In this workshop, participants will learn about different sources of friction in working with scientific data and how to alleviate them using the open source Frictionless Data tools. Participants will learn where to find open scientific data, how to computationally prepare this data for further analysis and generate conclusions, and also best practices for sharing data and documenting metadata. This hands-on workshop is aimed for researchers interested in open science and reproducible research that are at a beginner programming level (for instance, some familiarity with Python or R and the command line), but more advanced programmers are also welcome.
Monica Granados Mitacs Canadian Science Policy Fellow, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Dr. Monica Granados is committed to making science more open and accessible. She is currently a Mitacs Canadian Science Policy Fellow at Environment and Climate Change Canada working on open science, she is on the leadership team of PREreview working to bring more diversity to peer review, a Frictionless Data Fellow and on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Open Data Society.
22 July 2020: 22h00 UTC
Learning Goals:
- Appreciate the diversity of learners and the importance of the affective aspect of learning
- Identify effective strategies for fostering community to improve learner belonging
- Outline categories of instructor talk and their potential effects on learner belonging
- Discuss activities and structural changes that leverage learners from different levels of preparation through differentiated instruction
In an era of social distancing, difficulties in creating an authentic feeling of connection and presence for online learners exacerbates already challenging hurdles to learner persistence in programming. A sense of belonging has long been known to influence learners and their intent to actively engage or even stay in a class. Feelings of belonging are often significantly lower in learners identifying with groups historically underrepresented in STEM. How can we continue to foster belonging even when we are separated by a screen? In this session, we will explore how we can intentionally craft and monitor the structure (e.g. modes of participation) and framing (e.g. instructor talk) of our online workshops to create a positive learning community. Importantly, we will dive into a commonly cited challenge, different background levels of preparation, and discuss ways to address this diversity in learners. Through a differentiated instruction framework, we can identify learner differences and provide flexible content/goals without establishing barriers or setting lower expectations. Through this session, participants will ultimately consider different building blocks for an equitable learning experience and identify small, meaningful steps to improving student belonging when they teach.
Lorraine Ling Coral Genomics and Symbiosis Postdoctoral Scholar, Pringle Lab, Stanford University, USA
Lori is a postdoctoral scholar studying coral genomics and symbiosis in the Pringle Lab at Stanford University. Lori was trained as a Carpentries Instructor in 2016 at Stanford and since then has co-instructed many R-flavored workshops (SWC & DC) on campus.
17 August 2020: 22h00 UTC
Learning Goals
- Discuss how to apply strategies for increasing belonging and engagement online to Carpentries workshops
- Analyze hypothetical scenarios and the factors that influence engagement and inclusion
- Share tools/features we have found useful for engaging learners online
- Identify a set of practices to adopt to your next online teaching experience
With the COVID-19 global pandemic and the shift to virtual learning, motivating learners to actively engage during our workshops requires the instructor to thoughtfully adapt their teaching approaches. In this breakout session, instructors will share their own challenges and successes with getting learners to connect to the material and one another while teaching programming remotely. First, we will dive into different principles of belonging and active learning, and brainstorm how best to apply these ideas to the online context. We will then work together to break down some hypothetical scenarios around online learning and propose new ways to address the needs/conflicts presented in each situation. Throughout this session, we will discuss the array of software tools available (e.g. Zoom, Canvas, Google docs) and how their features can be best leveraged to improve the learner experience. By attending this breakout session, participants will be able to interact with other instructors, share fresh teaching ideas, and reflect on their own teaching philosophy.
Engagement in this sprint will be based on note-taking and discussions in breakout rooms.
Darach Miller Yeast Geneticist and Postdoctoral Researcher, Joint Initiative for Metrology in Biology, USA
Darach Miller is a card-carrying yeast geneticist and postdoctoral researcher at the Joint Initiative for Metrology in Biology.
17 August 2020: 22h00 UTC
Learning Goals
- Discuss how to apply strategies for increasing belonging and engagement online to Carpentries workshops
- Analyze hypothetical scenarios and the factors that influence engagement and inclusion
- Share tools/features we have found useful for engaging learners online
- Identify a set of practices to adopt to your next online teaching experience
With the COVID-19 global pandemic and the shift to virtual learning, motivating learners to actively engage during our workshops requires the instructor to thoughtfully adapt their teaching approaches. In this breakout session, instructors will share their own challenges and successes with getting learners to connect to the material and one another while teaching programming remotely. First, we will dive into different principles of belonging and active learning, and brainstorm how best to apply these ideas to the online context. We will then work together to break down some hypothetical scenarios around online learning and propose new ways to address the needs/conflicts presented in each situation. Throughout this session, we will discuss the array of software tools available (e.g. Zoom, Canvas, Google docs) and how their features can be best leveraged to improve the learner experience. By attending this breakout session, participants will be able to interact with other instructors, share fresh teaching ideas, and reflect on their own teaching philosophy.
Engagement in this sprint will be based on note-taking and discussions in breakout rooms.
Claudia Engel Academic Technology Specialist and Lecturer in Anthroplogy, Stanford University, USA
Claudia is Academic Technology Specialist and Lecturer in Anthroplogy at Stanford University. In collaboration with graduate students and faculty she facilitates and conducts innovative digital research in Anthropology.
13 August 2020: 13h00 UTC
Putting Madisonian data into reproducible documents and dashboards--should be fun!
The methods for disseminating research are advancing. Papers now include more and more supplementary materials. This shift has been facilitated by burgeoning technologies and available training. Another major contributor was the replication crisis in psychology. Nowadays, researchers customarily examine the extra materials with new studies. These materials are available to non-academics, too. Standard supplementals could be dubbed Open Data and Reproducibility, Version 1. Excitingly, updated features are already available, largely based on open-source software. Let’s look at some applications using R.
Pablo Bernabeu will conduct this workshop, which uses real code of varying complexity and Madisonian data! Each of the three sections below include practice, allowing participants to get acquainted with common challenges and even to create some output.
21 July 2020: 17h00 UTC
10 August 2020: 17h00 UTC
This sprint is to welcome new translators to the Spanish translation community.
¿Estás enamorado de las Carpentries? ¿Entiendes suficiente el inglés como para traducir cachitos de una lección? Únete a este sprint para aprender la herramienta que usamos (Transifex) y para empezar a traducir parte de las lecciones de las Carpentries. Tu ayuda será apreciada por millones de hispano-hablantes a lo largo y ancho del planeta!!
03 August 2020: 22h00 UTC
The Carpentries Community in Spanish is growing, and we would like to get to know each other, share our thoughts and aspirations and help each other creating new valuable connections.
Queremos invitar a la comunidad que habla Español a una reunión informal para conocernos y hablar de temas varios y establecer contactos.
Florencia D'Andrea Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Argentina
Florencia is a postdoc researcher who approached The Carpentries interested in the lessons specifically designed for scientists. She currently participates in programming-related communities such as ReproHack and R-Ladies and is chair of LatinR 2020.
15 July 2020: 17h00 UTC
23 July 2020: 21h00 UTC
The Carpentries Core Team will be inviting experienced instructors who have ran Carpentries workshops online so far to share their experiences in a themed discussion format. This platform will also allow instructors to share ideas and ask questions related to teaching online workshops. The discussion will take place over two timeslots allowing instructors from various time zones the opportunity to attend the breakout session.
Sher! Hurt Deputy Director of Workshops and Meetings, The Carpentries
SherAaron (Sher!) Hurt is the Deputy Director of Workshops and Meetings for The Carpentries. In this role she oversees the logistics for over 600 international workshops held annually by The Carpentries and Community Members. In addition she is the Core Team Liaison for The CarpentryCon events. She earned her B.S. in Business Management at Michigan Technological University and M.A. degree in Hospitality Management at Florida International University. SherAaron enjoys applying Carpentries coding practices in her professional and personal pursuits. In her free time she enjoys traveling, exploring different cultures, loose leaf tea and kickboxing.
15 July 2020: 17h00 UTC
23 July 2020: 21h00 UTC
The Carpentries Core Team will be inviting experienced instructors who have ran Carpentries workshops online so far to share their experiences in a themed discussion format. This platform will also allow instructors to share ideas and ask questions related to teaching online workshops. The discussion will take place over two timeslots allowing instructors from various time zones the opportunity to attend the breakout session.
Kelly Barnes Deputy Director of Instructor Training, The Carpentries
I am a Social Psychologist by training, but have always viewed education through an interdisciplinary lens shaped heavily by my undergraduate, liberal arts education. I believe having the opportunity to learn leaves us with a responsibility to use that education to better the world. I am passionate about people and knowledge and in every role I take on, I strive to use information to improve people's lives. After my PhD, I moved into the public sector. I've worked in government for the past four years, most recently as a Senior Research and Statistics Advisor with the Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General. I loved serving the public, but I'm a teacher at heart so I'm thrilled to be part of the education community again. I am currently the Deputy Director of Instructor Training for The Carpentries.
24 August 2020: 02h00 UTC
In this session, we demonstrate how the constraints of reverse design reduce the uncertainty of a blank page titled 'Lesson 1'. Nowhere does the Carpentries demonstrate the full cycle of instructional design. We propose this workshop - co-developed by two experienced instructors - using this approach. The process of the development of this workshop is documented and shared as the content of the workshop. Attendees will see how learner personas, faded examples, concept maps, formative and summative assessment create requirements for lesson design.
We provide a worked example of the reverse design process without any assumptions of prior computational knowledge. After the workshop, attendees can combine their experience of the lesson we developed with the process of development, which we share with them, to apply this framework to their own training work.
Brian Ballsun-Stanton Solutions Architect (Digital Humanities), Macquarie University Faculty of Arts, Sydney, Australia
Brian is solutions architect (Digital Humanities) for Macquarie University's Faculty of Arts. He has over 8 years designing and delivering technical solutions for academic and student research projects at the Macquarie University Faculty of Arts and UNSW Australia. Chief Investigator in grants and prizes across the humanities and social sciences totalling over AUD $2,610,000. These have included Technical Director for a field-data collection project, delivering 50+ field data collection modules since 2013. Active member of The Carpentries Trainers Leadership group, Instructor Trainer, and Instructor in good standing. Lead instructor for 10+ carpentries workshops delivered since 2017 and active in local initiatives such as the Research Bazaar Sydney. Developed a partnership with Ubisoft that led to Macquarie University's engagement on the Google Arts and Culture Platform, using AI to assist researchers in translating Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Co-supervised two MRES students using technology as a fundamental component of their research. Provision of technical advice, database designs and solution-focused support for academic and student research projects across Australian and International academic institutions. An internationally respected researcher in the Digital Humanities with eleven peer-reviewed publications, book-chapters, and conference presentations.
07 August 2020: 13h00 UTC
CarpentryCon Lightning talks session will feature 5 minute talks by Carpentries community members on various data science, open science, open source and core skills work they are involved in.
Emma Slayton Data Curation, Visualization, and GIS specialist, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, USA
Emma Slayton serves as the Data Curation, Visualization, and GIS specialist at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. She obtained an MPhil from the University of Oxford in 2013 and completed her Ph.D. at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University in 2018. Her current work centers around improving and supporting digital literacy efforts.
15 July 2020: 13h00 UTC
Generating insight and conclusions from scientific data is not always a straightforward process. Data is often hard to find, archived in difficult to use formats, poorly structured and/or incomplete. These issues create friction and make it difficult to use, publish and share data. The Frictionless Data initiative (frictionlessdata.io) at Open Knowledge Foundation (okfn.org) aims to reduce friction in working with data, with a goal to make it effortless to transport data among different tools and platforms for further analysis, and with an emphasis on reproducible research and open data. In this workshop, participants will learn about different sources of friction in working with scientific data and how to alleviate them using the open source Frictionless Data tools. Participants will learn where to find open scientific data, how to computationally prepare this data for further analysis and generate conclusions, and also best practices for sharing data and documenting metadata. This hands-on workshop is aimed for researchers interested in open science and reproducible research that are at a beginner programming level (for instance, some familiarity with Python or R and the command line), but more advanced programmers are also welcome.
Ouso Daniel Task Force Co-chair, CarpentryCon @ Home
Ouso has a research background in molecular biology with latter interests in bioinformatics. He has MSc. in Molecular biology and Bioinformatics from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya. He has worked short contracts as bioinformatics support (training) at ICIPE, recently completed the Frictionless Data fellowship at the Open Knowledge Foundation and is a certified Carpentries instructor. Ouso is currently co-chair of the CarpentryCon Task Force. He is interested in computational interventions in biological research and also involved with open and reproducible science advocacy.
07 August 2020: 13h00 UTC
CarpentryCon Lightning talks session will feature 5 minute talks by Carpentries community members on various data science, open science, open source and core skills work they are involved in.
Sarah Young Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, USA
Sarah Young is a librarian at Carnegie Mellon University and where she supports teaching, research and library collections for Public Policy and Management, Decision Sciences, Statistics and Information Systems. Sarah is a member of the Libraries' Open Science, Data Collaboration and Research Data Services teams and is a trained Carpentries instructor. In addition, she provides evidence synthesis support and training to researchers around the world in global and public health, public policy, development and agriculture. She is currently helping to develop a new Library Carpentry lesson for R and a systematic review package called litsearchr. She holds an advanced degree in international development and earned her MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh in 2011.
28 July 2020: 13h00 UTC
This skill-up session is aimed at anyone who wants to learn more about how to design good lessons and the lesson development process promoted by The Carpentries.
If you'd like to create your own lesson, or contribute to the ongoing development of existing curricula, but aren't sure where to start, this session is for you!
The session will be in 2 parts. First, we will review the principles of curriculum design used for Carpentries lessons. Using the Curriculum Development Handbook, we will present how to use Backward Design to identify what to include in a lesson, decide on the exercises suitable for formative assessment, and the general development life-cycle of a lesson. In the second part, we will present and answer questions about The Carpentries Incubator and The Carpentries Lab, venues to collaborate and share community-developed lessons in the style of The Carpentries.
After attending the session, participants will be able to design new lessons in style of The Carpentries, create exercises suitable to the learning objectives of their lessons, and contribute to the development of existing curricula.
26 August 2020: 21h00 UTC
27 August 2020: 15h00 UTC
On 26 August 2020 at 21h00 UTC and 27 August 2020 at 15h00 UTC, a few community builders and wranglers will come together in two fireside chats to discuss different challenges, ideas and approaches around Growing Inclusive, Computational Communities and Leaders. Please fill this form with any questions or topics you would like to be part of the agenda for the fireside chats and we will make sure to include them in the discussions.
Toby Hodges Curriculum Community Developer, The Carpentries
Toby has spent the last five years coordinating the EMBL Bio-IT community and will soon take up a new role as Curriculum Community Developer at The Carpentries. In this position, he will work with community members to facilitate the development of new Carpentries-style lessons. He enjoys teaching, meeting and connecting people, and collaboratively creating material that enables researchers to learn new skills.
26 August 2020: 10h00 UTC
In the CodeRefinery project we teach tools and practices for collaborative reproducible research software development, following the Carpentries style of teaching and workshop organization. Due to the outbreak of Covid-19, we were forced to cancel several in-person workshops planned in the spring 2020. As The Carpentries started piloting online workshops, we also shifted our gear to hold online workshops. After successful CodeRefinery online workshop with middle-sized cohort of participants (approximately 25 learners on average per day), we held a 'mega' CodeRefinery online workshop where we accepted 120 registrations as both learners and helpers.
In this panel session, we will present how we ran the workshops including small but critical tactics. (The current plan is that) Organizer, instructor, expert helper, helper, and learner, each of them will present their perspective and discuss our experiences and lessons learned. (Note: If it is difficult to have a panelist for any of the roles, we will try to summarize feedback from those who fall under the role and a lead or co-lead will present on their behalf). This session aims to reach audience that are interested in online workshops and scaling up community, regardless of their roles. We hope that our experiences will provide with some inspiration to the session participants for planning their organization of or participation in workshops.
We will use HackMD as a platform of questions and answers during the panel session and answer them in the QA session at the end. We used HackMD in the Mega CodeRefinery online workshop and thus hope we could demonstrate some advantages of using HackMD
Petri Jehkonen Master's Thesis Student, Aalto University, Finland
Petri is a master's thesis student at Aalto University. Thesis topic is Detecting Saltatory pattern from Cardiotocography data. He has worked with several roles with companies offering hardware and software solutions. He has solid background with C-programming language, and he has during past few years learned new programming paradigms and languages. He is relatively new to modern tools such as are included in CodeRefinery workshop.
20 August 2020: 06h00 UTC
20 August 2020: 14h00 UTC
The Library Carpentry FAIR Data & Software lesson aims to introduce researchers and librarians to FAIRer (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) research data and software management and development practices. Lesson content is based on the 2018 FAIR Data and Software: A Carpentries-based workshop at TIB, Hannover (https://tibhannover.github.io/2018-07-09-FAIR-Data-and-Software/) with additional contributions since. The lesson is still in the early design / pre-alpha stage and this half day sprint will allow maintainers and contributors to map out next steps towards furthering the lesson.
27 August 2020 from 02h00 UTC
to 28 August 2020: 22h00 UTC
The Library Carpentry FAIR Data & Software lesson aims to introduce researchers and librarians to FAIRer (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) research data and software management and development practices. Lesson content is based on the 2018 FAIR Data and Software: A Carpentries-based workshop at TIB, Hannover (https://tibhannover.github.io/2018-07-09-FAIR-Data-and-Software/) with additional contributions since. The lesson is still in the early design / pre-alpha stage and this half day sprint will allow maintainers and contributors to map out next steps towards furthering the lesson.
Sprint Zoom Timetable
| Event Coordinators: | Liz (Sydney - AU) | Kristina (Leiden - NL) | Chris (Raleigh - USA) |
|---|---|---|---|
| THURSDAY AUG 27 | |||
| Sprint kick off for local time | Hosting UTC 2:am Thurs Sydney 12noon Duration 1 hour | ||
| AU/ NZ / beyond? | UTC 3-5am Sprinting Sydney 1-3pm | ||
| First check in and baton pass | UTC 6am Sydney 4pm Duration 1 hour | Leiden 8am Duration 1 hour | |
| Europe / UK | UTC 7-9 Sprinting Leiden 9-11am | ||
| Second check in and baton pass | UTC 2pm Leiden 4pm | UTC 2pm Raleigh 10am | |
| USA | UTC 3pm+ Sprinting | ||
| Third check in and baton pass | UTC 9pm THURS Sydney FRI 7am | UTC 9pm Raleigh 5pm | |
| FRIDAY AUG 28 | |||
| AU/ NZ / beyond? | Review/update/wrap up UTC 3-5am Sydney Fri 1-3pm | ||
| First check in and baton pass | UTC 6am FRI Sydney 4pm Duration 1 hour | UTC 6am FRI Leiden 8am Duration 1 hour | |
| Europe / UK | Review/update/wrap up UTC 7-9am Leiden 9-11am | ||
| Second check in and baton pass | UTC 2pm Leiden 4pm | UTC 2pm Raleigh 10am | |
| USA | Review/update/wrap up | ||
| *IF NEEDED* Third check in and baton pass | Sydney 7am (Saturday 29th Aug) | Raleigh 5pm |
Chris Erdmann Community Expert for NHLBI BioData Catalyst project, University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute, USA
Christopher Erdmann is an author, developer, and experimenter in the areas of digital libraries, social networking, library UX, interactive technologies, bibliometrics, and data services in libraries. He is currently an engagement, support, and training expert on the NHLBI BioData Catalyst project at University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute. He has previously worked for organizations such as California Digital Library (Library Carpentry), North Carolina State University, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, European Southern Observatory, Supreme Court of the US, United Nations, University of Washington, Smithsonian, and CNET. Chris holds an MLIS from the University of Washington iSchool and a BA from the University of California, Davis.
20 August 2020: 06h00 UTC
20 August 2020: 14h00 UTC
The Library Carpentry FAIR Data & Software lesson aims to introduce researchers and librarians to FAIRer (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) research data and software management and development practices. Lesson content is based on the 2018 FAIR Data and Software: A Carpentries-based workshop at TIB, Hannover (https://tibhannover.github.io/2018-07-09-FAIR-Data-and-Software/) with additional contributions since. The lesson is still in the early design / pre-alpha stage and this half day sprint will allow maintainers and contributors to map out next steps towards furthering the lesson.
27 August 2020 from 02h00 UTC
to 28 August 2020: 22h00 UTC
The Library Carpentry FAIR Data & Software lesson aims to introduce researchers and librarians to FAIRer (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) research data and software management and development practices. Lesson content is based on the 2018 FAIR Data and Software: A Carpentries-based workshop at TIB, Hannover (https://tibhannover.github.io/2018-07-09-FAIR-Data-and-Software/) with additional contributions since. The lesson is still in the early design / pre-alpha stage and this half day sprint will allow maintainers and contributors to map out next steps towards furthering the lesson.
Sprint Zoom Timetable
| Event Coordinators: | Liz (Sydney - AU) | Kristina (Leiden - NL) | Chris (Raleigh - USA) |
|---|---|---|---|
| THURSDAY AUG 27 | |||
| Sprint kick off for local time | Hosting UTC 2:am Thurs Sydney 12noon Duration 1 hour | ||
| AU/ NZ / beyond? | UTC 3-5am Sprinting Sydney 1-3pm | ||
| First check in and baton pass | UTC 6am Sydney 4pm Duration 1 hour | Leiden 8am Duration 1 hour | |
| Europe / UK | UTC 7-9 Sprinting Leiden 9-11am | ||
| Second check in and baton pass | UTC 2pm Leiden 4pm | UTC 2pm Raleigh 10am | |
| USA | UTC 3pm+ Sprinting | ||
| Third check in and baton pass | UTC 9pm THURS Sydney FRI 7am | UTC 9pm Raleigh 5pm | |
| FRIDAY AUG 28 | |||
| AU/ NZ / beyond? | Review/update/wrap up UTC 3-5am Sydney Fri 1-3pm | ||
| First check in and baton pass | UTC 6am FRI Sydney 4pm Duration 1 hour | UTC 6am FRI Leiden 8am Duration 1 hour | |
| Europe / UK | Review/update/wrap up UTC 7-9am Leiden 9-11am | ||
| Second check in and baton pass | UTC 2pm Leiden 4pm | UTC 2pm Raleigh 10am | |
| USA | Review/update/wrap up | ||
| *IF NEEDED* Third check in and baton pass | Sydney 7am (Saturday 29th Aug) | Raleigh 5pm |
Liz Stokes Senior Research Data Skills Specialist, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Australia
Liz Stokes is a Senior Research Data Skills Specialist at the Australian Research Data Commons. She runs data skills training and supports communities involved in research data management. Liz co-chairs the Library Carpentry Advisory Group with Ariel Deardorff, and is a recently badged Carpentries Instructor and Trainer. Liz is passionate about socialising better data management practices which enable reproducible research, for people who do the research and those providing support services.
26 August 2020: 10h00 UTC
In the CodeRefinery project we teach tools and practices for collaborative reproducible research software development, following the Carpentries style of teaching and workshop organization. Due to the outbreak of Covid-19, we were forced to cancel several in-person workshops planned in the spring 2020. As The Carpentries started piloting online workshops, we also shifted our gear to hold online workshops. After successful CodeRefinery online workshop with middle-sized cohort of participants (approximately 25 learners on average per day), we held a 'mega' CodeRefinery online workshop where we accepted 120 registrations as both learners and helpers.
In this panel session, we will present how we ran the workshops including small but critical tactics. (The current plan is that) Organizer, instructor, expert helper, helper, and learner, each of them will present their perspective and discuss our experiences and lessons learned. (Note: If it is difficult to have a panelist for any of the roles, we will try to summarize feedback from those who fall under the role and a lead or co-lead will present on their behalf). This session aims to reach audience that are interested in online workshops and scaling up community, regardless of their roles. We hope that our experiences will provide with some inspiration to the session participants for planning their organization of or participation in workshops.
We will use HackMD as a platform of questions and answers during the panel session and answer them in the QA session at the end. We used HackMD in the Mega CodeRefinery online workshop and thus hope we could demonstrate some advantages of using HackMD
Samantha Wittke Researcher, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI), Finland
Samantha is a PhD student at Aalto University and researcher at Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI) with background in Natural Sciences and Geo information technology. Her thesis topic is the application of Machine Learning on Remote Sensing time series. She has working knowledge in Python programming and big data analysis. In the mega CodeRefinery workshop she served as a helper on a team of people from FGI.
26 August 2020: 21h00 UTC
27 August 2020: 15h00 UTC
On 26 August 2020 at 21h00 UTC and 27 August 2020 at 15h00 UTC, a few community builders and wranglers will come together in two fireside chats to discuss different challenges, ideas and approaches around Growing Inclusive, Computational Communities and Leaders. Please fill this form with any questions or topics you would like to be part of the agenda for the fireside chats and we will make sure to include them in the discussions.
Abigail Cabunoc Mayes AI Strategy Lead, Mozilla Foundation
Abigail Cabunoc Mayes (@abbycabs) leads Mozilla’s developer-focused trustworthy AI strategy around MozFest and open source. Previously, Abby founded and led Mozilla Open Leaders, a program that has worked with over 600 open projects globally. With a background in open source and community organizing, she is fueling a culture of openness in research and innovation. Prior to joining Mozilla, Abby worked as a bioinformatics software developer at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and at Michigan State University where she applied open source to research problems. She has been named in '100 awesome women in open source' by source{d} and is a current and past member of a variety of committees and editorial boards including the Journal of Open Source Software, the Open Source Systems Conference, and the Mozilla Open Source Support Awards.
26 August 2020: 21h00 UTC
27 August 2020: 15h00 UTC
On 26 August 2020 at 21h00 UTC and 27 August 2020 at 15h00 UTC, a few community builders and wranglers will come together in two fireside chats to discuss different challenges, ideas and approaches around Growing Inclusive, Computational Communities and Leaders. Please fill this form with any questions or topics you would like to be part of the agenda for the fireside chats and we will make sure to include them in the discussions.
Marlene Mhangami Vice-chair and Director, Python Software Foundation
Marlene is the Vice-Chair and a director at the Python Software Foundation, the non-profit organization behind the popular computer programming language, Python. She is also the co-founder of ZimboPy, a Zimbabwean non-profit that empowers women to pursue careers in technology. She is based in Harare, Zimbabwe and is the current chair of Pycon Africa, the annual pan-African gathering of the Python community. Marlene is interested in seeing technology used for social good and to unite communities across borders globally. In her spare time, she gets particularly excited about building games to make learning more enjoyable and is currently pursuing a degree in computer science with the University of London.
26 August 2020: 21h00 UTC
27 August 2020: 15h00 UTC
On 26 August 2020 at 21h00 UTC and 27 August 2020 at 15h00 UTC, a few community builders and wranglers will come together in two fireside chats to discuss different challenges, ideas and approaches around Growing Inclusive, Computational Communities and Leaders. Please fill this form with any questions or topics you would like to be part of the agenda for the fireside chats and we will make sure to include them in the discussions.
18 August 2020: 16h30 UTC
The issue of dependency management is one which is of interest to all scientists and researchers who wish to develop reproducible results with software. The Nix package management system is one which is cross-platform and will enable the instructors to pin their dependencies to mimic perfectly, the environment of the learners, as a very basic example see https://github.com/HaoZeke/nixCarp. It is a more robust, secure and lightweight alternative to using a docker container and is a very important pedagogical tool as well. The workshop would cover the generation of nix-pkg derivations, which being written as they are in a functional style of programming, needs some description. Furthermore it would cover the best practices of the nix community when it comes to using the nix-shell environments. My experience as a nixpkg manager would let me communicate this tool to my fellow instructors and those at the event. I feel like this would be very beneficial to the audience. Nix, like git is a deep and complicated tool, but which can be used to reap fantastic dividends with a low learning curve if taught correctly.
26 August 2020: 10h00 UTC
In the CodeRefinery project we teach tools and practices for collaborative reproducible research software development, following the Carpentries style of teaching and workshop organization. Due to the outbreak of Covid-19, we were forced to cancel several in-person workshops planned in the spring 2020. As The Carpentries started piloting online workshops, we also shifted our gear to hold online workshops. After successful CodeRefinery online workshop with middle-sized cohort of participants (approximately 25 learners on average per day), we held a 'mega' CodeRefinery online workshop where we accepted 120 registrations as both learners and helpers.
In this panel session, we will present how we ran the workshops including small but critical tactics. (The current plan is that) Organizer, instructor, expert helper, helper, and learner, each of them will present their perspective and discuss our experiences and lessons learned. (Note: If it is difficult to have a panelist for any of the roles, we will try to summarize feedback from those who fall under the role and a lead or co-lead will present on their behalf). This session aims to reach audience that are interested in online workshops and scaling up community, regardless of their roles. We hope that our experiences will provide with some inspiration to the session participants for planning their organization of or participation in workshops.
We will use HackMD as a platform of questions and answers during the panel session and answer them in the QA session at the end. We used HackMD in the Mega CodeRefinery online workshop and thus hope we could demonstrate some advantages of using HackMD
Matúš Kalaš , Postdoctoral researcher, University of Bergen, Norway
Matúš is a Postdoc at the Computational Biology Unit, with previous experiences from the software industry; especially with developing efficient user interfaces and integrating information systems. Since switching to the academia, he concentrates on open source software, open science, standardisation, software integration, ontologies, teaching, outreach, and community building.
15 July 2020: 17h00 UTC
23 July 2020: 21h00 UTC
The Carpentries Core Team will be inviting experienced instructors who have ran Carpentries workshops online so far to share their experiences in a themed discussion format. This platform will also allow instructors to share ideas and ask questions related to teaching online workshops. The discussion will take place over two timeslots allowing instructors from various time zones the opportunity to attend the breakout session.
26 August 2020: 21h00 UTC
27 August 2020: 15h00 UTC
On 26 August 2020 at 21h00 UTC and 27 August 2020 at 15h00 UTC, a few community builders and wranglers will come together in two fireside chats to discuss different challenges, ideas and approaches around Growing Inclusive, Computational Communities and Leaders. Please fill this form with any questions or topics you would like to be part of the agenda for the fireside chats and we will make sure to include them in the discussions.
Serah Rono Director of Community Development and Engagement, The Carpentries
Serah Njambi Rono is a computer scientist and a writer. She has served as a technologist and Developer Advocate in the Open Data, Open Source, Open Science space for more than 6 years now, and has broad and valuable experience in listening to and shepherding communities, developing and implementing strategies for various technical projects, as well as for community building, outreach and the sustainability of existing, mature communities.
Serah is currently the Director of Community Development and Engagement at The Carpentries. She invests her time and energies to work that serves as a precursor to propelling change across communities in different domains, and believes that the work does not stop until all communities are at par in terms of access to resources and empowerment by information that open source initiatives make available. This is the measure by which she defines impact . Often, the outcome of her work has been a spark in community conversations, contributions and adoptions on different subjects, and pockets of knowledge transfer.