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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 21/09/2026

This past weekend, we piloted "Running Effective Online Meetings", one of our Professional Development courses at the Black Women in Data Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, hosted by our Interim Executive Director, Dr SherAaron Hurt.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 15/09/2026

🎙️ We are Excited to share that our Associate Director of Community, @angeliquetrusler.carpentries.org will be speaking at Science Summit 2026! 📅 Sep 18, 2026 | 10:00–11:45am PST 🌍 Virtual — Youth & Education Track 🔬 Session: Building Global Student Research Capacity Through Open Science Networks

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 31/08/2026

It's the last day of August, and this month, we wish to express gratitude to every community member who contributed in any way over the years to Data Carpentry's recently retired curricula. 🌟 Check out more news in our August newsletter and subscribe: us14.campaign-archive.com?u=46d7513c79...

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 30/07/2026

🎉 The Carpentries has reached a significant milestone today: we have hosted our 5,000th registered workshop! 🎊 This monumental achievement is testament to the strengths and efforts of members of our incredible global community. None of this would have been possible without their inspired service! 🙌

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 24/07/2026

Also presenting a Keynote at PyCon Colombia 2026 is longtime Carpentries community member and contributor, @malvikasharan.bsky.social! 💙 Wishing Kari and Malvika, and all the PyCon Colombia 2026 participants, a wonderfully productive and engaging time! #PyConColombia2026 #Carpentries

A picture of Dr. Malvika Sharan standing with Dr Kari L. Jordan and a PyCon Colombia banner announcing Malvika as a Keynote Speaker standing between them.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 24/07/2026

PyCon Colombia 2026 starts today, Friday, 24 July until Sunday, 26 July in the city of Medellín! 🚀 Our Executive Director @drkariljordan.carpentries.org is attending, and will deliver a Keynote presentation on Sunday. 👏 #PyConColombia2026 #Keynote #Carpentries

A PyCon Colombia 2026 promotional poster.

A picture of Dr Kari L. Jordan standing next to a PyCon Colombia banner announcing her as a Keynote Speaker. She is blowing a kiss to the camera.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 16/07/2026

The Carpentries' Learner-Centred Teaching program helps you enhance your evidence-based teaching practices, for novices & experienced educators alike. 💡 Effective teaching 🤝 Inclusive classrooms 🎯 Live practice + feedback 📍Get your seat here: carpentries.org/learner-centred-teaching

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 10/07/2026

Our 2025 Annual Report and Financial Statement are now available. A snapshot of The Carpentries' work, finances, and plans for the year ahead. 📄 Read it here: carpentries.org/reports/annu... and carpentries.org/reports/fina...

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 09/07/2026

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

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 01/07/2026

Toby and SherAaron were featured in this section of the newsletter at the request of the Chair of The Carpentries Instructor Trainers Leadership Committee (ITLC), Dr. Amanda Kis. Thank you SherAaron and Toby for your leadership and dedication to The Carpentries and our community! 🙏

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 18/06/2026

Participants will discuss the potential impacts of genAI chatbot use on opportunities for guided practice, how expertise affects an individual’s ability to make successful use of genAI tools, and how considerations of cognitive load should change in this new context, etc.

A Carpentries poster advertising the GenAI in Workshops bonus module. It is titled, Gen AI IN WORKSHOPS: Empowering Instructors to engage with learners about AI chatbot use in workshops.

It provides an outline of the aims of the module, and its target audience, and then provides the following link which contains more details: carpentries.org/instructor-training/#genai-in-workshops-bonus-module

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 04/06/2026

The Carpentries in collaboration with AI Carpentry will host the first set of discussions in a series of 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐀𝐈 + 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 on 18 June, at 12:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC. Register below: Session 1: pretix.carpentries.org/community-ev... Session 2: pretix.carpentries.org/community-ev...

GenAI + Teaching Discussion Session 18 June 2026 12:00 UTC & 19:00 UTC Hosted by AI Carpentry and The Carpentries

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 01/06/2026

The month of May is over, and The Carpentries newsletter is out! Our Gratitude for the Month was none other than our Associate Director of Community @angeliquetrusler.carpentries.org. 🌟 Read more from our May newsletter, and subscribe to future editions: us14.campaign-archive.com?u=46d7513c79...

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 13/05/2026

Join us next week for a fun and informal Carpentries networking session! This session is designed to connect with fellow community members from around the world in a relaxed and welcoming environment. 🖥️ Event: Carpentries Networking Session 📆 Date: Wednesday, 20 May ⏰️️️ Time: 17:30 UTC

Poster announcement of the Carpentries Networking Session, with event date and time.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 01/05/2026

Our Instructor Trainer Training program provides next-level pedagogical training for individuals seeking to play a leadership role in advancing computational and data skills training at their institutions. Within The Carpentries, they are pivotal to the growth and health of our Instructor community.

A flow chart of our Instructor Training programme, from Instructor Trainers to Instructors to Learners.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 14/04/2026

Learn more in our latest blog post: carpentries.org/blog/2026/04... #TheCarpentries #OpenScience #DataSkills

A graphic showing the global spread of Carpentries workshops, and then disks with the number of workshops delivered, Instructors and and Instructor Trainers trained, and countries in which these activities took place.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 02/04/2026

The Partnership program offers four main 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬—𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩, 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘚𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘦, 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮—each with a set number of service options that can be selected from across a number of old and new offerings.

A graphic representing the four Carpentries Partnership Tiers: Launch, Expand, Scale, and Transform.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 02/04/2026

Earlier this week, our Director of Workshops and Training, SherAaron Hurt, delivered a lecture and workshop as part of the Ashton Speaker Series at the University of New Mexico Libraries, and we are so pleased by how well it went! And many thanks to the Carpentries Instructors at UNM that joined! 💙

Poster advertising the Ashton Speaker Series at the University of New Mexico Libraries, with an image of Dr SherAaron Hurt as the scheduled speaker for March 31.

SherAaron Hurt with a group of 6 Carpentries Instructors at the University of New Mexico.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 18/03/2026

The Carpentries has fantastic representation at the National Society of Black Engineers Convention in Baltimore #NSBE2026. 🌟 Today, Carpentries Instructor, Sarah Brown, is teaching a Software Carpentry workshop, with Syreeta Thomas as helper. Our ED @drkariljordan.carpentries.org is also attending!

Image of a Carpentries workshop at the National Society of Black Engineers Convention in Baltimore #NSBE2026, with Sarah Brown as Instructor.

Image of Instructor Sarah Brown and helper Syreeta Thomas

A synopsis of the Data Analysis and Visualization in Python lesson.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 11/03/2026

The meeting brings together the industry, academic, and capacity and infrastructure community builders and projects to discuss using AI for science. For those in attendance who wish to connect with Kari and engage about The Carpentries, here are the sessions she plans to attend on 11-13 March:

Screenshot of Kari's agenda on 11 March at the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) meeting.

Screenshot of Kari's agenda on 12 and 13 March at the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) meeting.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 11/03/2026

This week, our Executive Director @drkariljordan.carpentries.org is attending the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Annual Meeting as a representative of one of the 660 projects in attendance. Her goal is to share what The Carpentries is doing to build AI curriculum.

Image of Dr. Kari L. Jordan standing next to the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) meeting banner with WELCOME! written on it.

Picture of a presentation screen showing an overview of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR).

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 06/03/2026

A busy week for our Director of Curriculum @tobyhodges.carpentries.org, who attended the #deRSE26 conference at the University of Stuttgart! He presented a talk on the developments around the AI Carpentry project, and also co-led two @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social-related sessions. Thank you, Toby! 🙏💙

Image of Toby Hodges standing next to the deRSE Conference banner.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 27/02/2026

From 1 September, The Carpentries will have four official Lesson Programs: Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry, Software Carpentry, and HPC Carpentry! 🎉

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 26/02/2026

Over the last twelve months, lesson developers either transitioned their repositories to The Carpentries Workbench or requested that the Curriculum Team make the transition for them. Recently, the Curriculum Team has been archiving repositories that had not migrated to the Workbench.

A diagram indicating the transition status of all 213 lesson repositories in the Incubator. The repositories are classified as either: using the Workbench; Workbench transition pending; transitioned from styles; or archived.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 25/02/2026

To underscore the magnitude of this donation, we also bring attention to our Gratitude of the Month in our January 2026 newsletter. In it, we thanked our community for their contributions in helping us raise just over $6,000 in donations in 2025, an amount more than the prior two years combined! 🎉

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 25/02/2026

We are so grateful for the generosity of the volunteer organisers of the Winter Analytics Summit for choosing The Carpentries as their charity of choice to donate to $3,300 worth of the summit's registration proceeds. 🙌 The summit was held on 20 - 22 February 2026.

A poster with the Winter Analytics Summit and The Carpentries logos, as well as The Carpentries Gratitudes heart. There is also text, which reads: "The Carpentries wishes to express our heartfelt gratitude to the organisers of and participants at the inaugural Winter Analytics Summit for the generous $3,300 donation from proceeds from registration costs at the summit. We are in awe of the generosity of this community. THANK YOU!"

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 18/02/2026

Join us for a fun and informal Carpentries networking session! This session is designed to connect with community members from around the world in a relaxed, welcoming environment. 📆 UTC Time: 25 February 2026 15:00 📝 Sign up on Pretix (pretix.carpentries.org/community-ev... ).

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 05/02/2026

In this fourth thread on #CarpentriesResources, we would like to highlight resources available to Carpentries subcommunities.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 28/01/2026

In our third thread on #CarpentriesResources, we would like to highlight resources available to Carpentries Instructors. We would love to hear from other communities as well about the resources they rely on to build stronger, more connected, inclusive, and resilient communities.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 27/01/2026

The conference is an affordable and accessible event for aspiring data professionals, with industry experts and educators to offer collaborative learning & networking opportunities. It will be a weekend of workshops, speaker panels, and tech tool demos, culminating in a data hackathon for attendees.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 23/01/2026

In our second #CarpentriesResources thread, we would like to share some resources The Carpentries has developed to support our community members to engage with our various communications platforms and community discussions and events.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 22/01/2026

Joining a virtual meeting to let others know about The Carpentries? Why not use one of our virtual backgrounds during your call? github.com/carpentries/...

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 22/01/2026

At the start of the year, we would like to draw attention to some of the #CarpentriesResources created by The Carpentries with the support of our incredible community of volunteers. These materials play an important role in advancing our mission and supporting the work of our global subcommunities.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 14/01/2026

🔊 ICYMI: Cite This Lesson pages will now be included in any Carpentries lesson with a CITATION.cff file in the source repository. These pages will provide a lot more visibility to all the people who have made the lesson what it is. 🙏 More details in this blog post: carpentries.org/blog/2025/12...

Screenshot of the Acknowledgements and Citations section of a Carpentries lesson with a Cite This Lesson page.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 02/12/2025

Today is #GivingTuesday, a global celebration of generosity that inspires people worldwide to lift the causes they care about. We call on our supporters to recommit to our mission and core values and make a one-time or recurring donation. 💙 DONATE TO THE CARPENTRIES: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 21/11/2025

Our Executive Director @drkariljordan.carpentries.org spent this week attending the Allstate Foundation's Executive Leadership Program, being one among the accepted cohort of 30! 🌟 This opportunity will be extremely impactful for Kari personally, and also for The Carpentries and our community.

A picture of a desk in a lecture room, with name plaque, two notebooks, and a jar of candy on it. The name plaque reads: KARI JORDAN - THE CARPENTRIES. The cover of one notebook has "Allstate Foundation" on it, and the other has "ME PROJECT". In front of the desk we see the back of the person sitting at the desk ahead. On the wall further ahead a projector screen is visible, with the following eligible text: "Welcome to the Kellogg School Center for Nonprofit Management."

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 19/11/2025

Tim Dennis, Chair of the Library Carpentry Curriculum Advisors, shares his personal timeline with the LC. It's always so lovely to learn about our community members' personal journeys into and with The Carpentries. 💙 Tim also shares some milestones and future developments for the LC lessons.

My Timeline with Library Carpentry

2015: Belinda Weaver contacted Juliane Schneider and me about teaching
2015: Taught the first UC Library Carpentry workshop in San Diego
2017: Co-taught the first librarian Instructor Training in Portland with Belinda and Juliane, organized by John Chodacki
2015–present: Member of the LC governance group
2018: Joined The Carpentries with Chris Erdmann leading from Carpentries side
2020–present: Served on the LC Curriculum Advisory Committee during COVID, now back on governance
Taught many workshops, led lesson sprints, contributed to lessons, and presented on LC across UC and beyond

What Has LC-CAC Been Up To?

Governance (2022-2025): CAC → LCGC
March 2022: CAC formally established
Oct 2025: Transitioned to unified LCGC

Lesson Pipeline (2022-2023): Carpentries Lab adoption
Nov 2022: Proposed • Jan 2023: Approved
First lesson program to adopt Lab review process, MarcEDIT lesson in-process

Curriculum (2022-2025): Modernization
Retired 4 lessons (XML, FAIR, Web Scraping, Overview)
Sept 2024: Tidy Data → Core curriculum
Adopted 6+ new lessons (AI for GLAM, DMP 101, etc.)

Partnership (2022-present): UCLA IMLS Open Science
2022: Grant awarded • 2023-2024: 14 teams selected
53 proposals total • 7 alpha, 7 pre-alpha lessons

Lesson Development Stages

Pre-Alpha: Initial concept & design
Alpha: First teaching pilots
Beta: Community review & feedback
Stable: Published & maintained

Recent successes:
• AI for GLAM (beta)
• Computational Thinking (Belinda Weaver)
• MarcEdit (Lab review in-process)

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 19/11/2025

In the second presentation at Celebrating Ten Years of Library Carpentry, Ann Myatt James provides a brief overview of the ACRL’s Cookbook Series with a special emphasis on those recipes at the intersection of libraries and The Carpentries organisation and model of instruction.

Title presentation slide of presentation. Titled "Spicy data: ACRL cookbooks for the Carpentries"

Other text reads:
Ten Years of Library Carpentry 2025-11-20

Ann Myatt James, Phil Reed, Jennifer Stubbs, Jodie Double, Nilani Ganeshwaran, Carlene Barton

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 19/11/2025

An inexhaustive list of individuals who were instrumental in the formation and development of the Library Carpentry lesson program. (Compiled and shared by Dr James Baker.)

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 19/11/2025

Some remarks from opening speaker, Dr James Baker, on what, ten years on, they have learnt from Library Carpentry:

Screenshot from Dr James Baker's presentation titled "Ten years on, what did I learn from LC?" The listed points read:
- Always live code
- Fight for permissions
- Build communities
- Invest to grow trust
- Librarians need and deserve special things.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 19/11/2025

This 2 hour session, celebrating Ten Years of Library Carpentry, has just started! 🎉 Join us to celebrate this milestone! carpentries.org/community/ev...

A poster that reads "Celebrating Ten Years of Library Carpentry" with an image of the number "10" with a party hat on it.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 07/11/2025

The Executive Director of The Carpentries, @drkariljordan.carpentries.org is attending the Mozilla Festival 2025 @mozilla.org #MozFest from 7-9 November in Barcelona, Spain - we encourage you to connect with her for an opportunity to chat about sponsorship and how you can support our work.

Executive Director of The Carpentries, Dr. Kari L. Jordan, sitting in front Mozilla Festival #MozFest banner.

Banner poster at the Mozilla Festival. It reads "Unlearning defaults. Building better."

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 03/11/2025

🌍 We’re celebrating progress toward a more inclusive Glosario! With support from the Mellon Foundation, our community has enhanced accessibility, improved contributor recognition, and increased multilingual participation.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 11/09/2025

Also at #RSECon25 was Carpentries Trainer, Instructor, Lesson Developer, and member of our Board of Directors, @jannettas.bsky.social. 🌟 She presented a talk about HPC (High Performance Computing) Carpentry, a project currently in incubation to become a new Carpentries lesson program.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 11/09/2025

Our Director of Curriculum @tobyhodges.bsky.social spent this week at the University of Warwick for #RSECon25. He chaired a session of talks earlier this week, and is leading sessions at the Training Community Day tomorrow. 👏

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 11/09/2025

The Carpentries Director of Workshops and Training, SherAaron Hurt, is also at #csvconf in Bologna. She joins the conference as a member of its 2025 organising team, working alongside other amazing open and data science colleagues to put together this year's programme: csvconf.com/schedule.html. 👏

Screenshot from the conference website which contains the following text:

csv,conf is a group effort to put on a non-profit, community conference with dozens of people putting in time, including but not limited to the 2025 organizing team: Julieta Millan (Indepentent), SherAaron Hurt (The Carpentries), Paola Masuzzo (OnData), Gabi Mejias (DataCite), Giuseppe Sollazzo (UK Government), Sara Petti (Open Knowledge Foundation), Andrea Borruso (OnData), Averi Giudicessi (Independent), Emanuale Storti (Independent), Giulio Dalla Riva (Pacific Community), Matteo Fortini (Independent), Maurizio Napolitano (Fondazione Bruno Kessler), Mago Torres (Independent), Elaine Wong (Independent), Marco Montanari (Independent), Monica Palmirani (Università di Bologna), Silvio Peroni (Università di Bologna), Lilly Winfree (Anaconda), John Chodacki (California Digital Library).

We strive to be a supportive and welcoming environment to all attendees. We encourage you to read the Conf Code of Conduct and will be enforcing it.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 11/09/2025

This has been a busy of engagement for members of The Carpentries Core Team! Our Exec. Director is at #csvconf presenting on our collaboration with GREI to equip researchers & librarians with data/software management skills, supporting high-quality, shareable deposits for the biomedical community.

Abstract of Executive Director's presentation at the conference. It reads:

In this talk we share the outcomes of a collaboration between The Carpentries and the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI), an NIH-led effort to enhance data-sharing practices across disciplines. Generalist repositories play a vital role in making research outputs more discoverable and reusable, but researchers need the right skills to maximize their potential. Through this partnership, we aimed to align The Carpentries’ training programs with GREI’s mission by integrating best practices in data management, refining educational resources, and fostering a culture of open science. Our collaboration includes workshops, curriculum development, and community engagement to support researchers in navigating generalist repositories effectively. Join us to explore how this initiative can empower communities, enhance data workflows, and advance open, FAIR-aligned research practices.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 25/07/2025

The Carpentries Gratitude of the Month is to Aman Goel, Research Software Engineer @uomresearchit.bsky.social and Fellow at @softwaresaved.bsky.social. Aman is leading the organisation of a Training Community Day to follow the Research Software Engineering Conference #RSECon25 in September!

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 23/06/2025

Upcoming community sessions next week carpentries.org/community/ev... Events are in UTC Time : 🇬🇧 UK Carpentry Community Call 23 June 2025 15:00 📣 Welcome Session with The Carpentries 24 June 2025 08:00 🌍 African Carpentry Community Call 26 June 2025 10:00

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 17/06/2025

🚀 Want to create a website for your Carpentries workshop? Join us for a hands-on session where we’ll walk you through the process step-by-step! 📅 18 June 🕑 14:00 UTC 🔗 You’ll need a GitHub account: github.com 📝 Sign up here: pad.carpentries.org/community-se...

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