• 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
  • 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

See Katherine Wu’s “Continuing Education at Work” talk.