The Carpentries Community Cookbook
1
Introduction
1.1
Building or improving your own local community
1.2
What is a community of practice?
1.3
Contributing
1.4
Codes of Conduct
2
Getting started
3
The Carpentries
3.1
Software Carpentry
3.1.1
Lessons
3.2
Data Carpentry
3.2.1
Lessons
3.3
Library Carpentry
3.3.1
Lessons
3.4
Other Skills Workshops
4
Help Sessions
4.1
Hacky Hour
4.1.1
Starting a Hacky Hour
5
Carpentries Study Groups
5.1
What are they?
5.2
How to start one?
5.3
Advice and peer support
5.4
See if there are Study Groups near you
6
Book Clubs
7
Events
8
Research Bazaar (ResBaz)
8.1
ResBaz resources
9
CarpentryCon
9.1
Purpose and Scope of CarpentryCon
9.2
The CarpentryCon Task Force
9.3
Useful Links
10
SatRdays
11
THATCamp
12
International Events
12.1
Pycon
12.2
SciPy
12.3
RStudio Conference
12.4
SC - the Supercomputing conference
12.5
International Data Week
13
Vendor Training
14
Tools to Support your Community
14.1
Websites
14.2
Git/GitHub
14.3
Calendar
14.4
Event registration
14.5
Mailing Lists
14.6
Newsletters
14.7
Instant Messaging/Chat
14.8
Shared Documents
14.9
Video Conferencing
15
Support Structures
15.0.1
Collecting evidence
15.1
Schools/Deans
15.2
Library
15.3
Research IT
15.4
Professional Societies
15.5
Innovation/Maker Spaces
15.6
Outside Supporters
15.6.1
Carpentries Membership
16
Funding Workshops
16.1
Where to start with your own institution
16.2
Outside your institution
16.3
Can you run a workshop
without
funding?
17
How to Scale up The Carpentries
17.1
Discussion overview
17.2
Scaling Up Summary and Considerations
18
Appendix
18.1
Local Community Websites
18.2
Community Formation Stories
18.3
Lex Nederbragt
18.3.1
The Beginning
18.3.2
Successes
18.3.3
Challenges
18.4
Sarah Stevens
18.4.1
The Beginning
18.4.2
Successes
18.4.3
Challenges
18.5
Belinda Weaver
18.5.1
The Beginning
18.5.2
Successes
18.5.3
Challenges
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The Carpentries Community Cookbook
Section 6
Book Clubs
See
Katherine Wu’s “Continuing Education at Work” talk
.