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
Skills Workshops
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
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
SC - the Supercomputing conference
12.4
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
19
Community Formation Stories
19.1
Lex Nederbragt
19.1.1
The Beginning
19.1.2
Successes
19.1.3
Challenges
19.2
Sarah Stevens
19.2.1
The Beginning
19.2.2
Successes
19.2.3
Challenges
19.3
Belinda Weaver
19.3.1
The Beginning
19.3.2
Successes
19.3.3
Challenges
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The Carpentries Community Cookbook
Section 6
Book Clubs