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Carpentries Italia

We are a small group of Italian Carpentries Instructors, many of whom are living abroad. In the last couple of years, we organised three Software Carpentry workshops in collaboration with ELIXIR. We also have our own Slack workspace and have attempted some translations.

Group type: Regional Group (Italy) / Language group /
Activities: Communication / Self-Organised Workshops / Fundraising / Translation /

The Carpentries in Australia

A subcommunity for Carpentries activity in Australia. We often link our activities with the equivalent subcommunity in New Zealand/Aotearoa.

Group type: Regional Group (Australia) /
Activities: Carpentry Connect / Communication / Self-Organised Workshops / Mentoring /
Connect: Email / Mailing list /

PyAOS Carpentry

The Python for Atmosphere and Ocean Science (PyAOS) subcommunity focuses on running workshops for those working / studying in the weather, ocean and climate sciences. It does this through maintaining lesson materials and supporting Instructors.

Group type: Local Group / Domain Specific Group /
Activities: Carpentry Connect / Communication / Self-Organised Workshops / Mentoring /
Connect:

Carpentries Offline

CarpentriesOffline aims to provide a solution for Instructors to run workshops in areas where there is no or limited Internet access.

Group type: Special Interest Group /
Activities: Self-Organised Workshops /
Connect: Slack: Carpentries workspace, #carpentries-offline / Contact form /

Carpentries at Stanford University

The Carpentries at Stanford are administered by the University Libraries. This group coordinates workshops, events, and other trainings for the needs of the university community.

Group type: Local Group Stanford, CA / Regional Group (Stanford, CA) /
Activities: Communication / Professional Development / Self-Organised Workshops / Student Programs /
Connect: Mailing list /

New Zealand/Aotearoa

The New Zealand/Aotearoa subcommunity focuses on building community relationships within the Carpentries community in New Zealand/Aotearoa. New Zealand/Aotearoa has several Carpentries members and is represented on the Board of Directors of the organisation as well.

Group type: Local Group New Zealand / Regional Group (New Zealand) / Domain Specific Group / Special Interest Group /
Activities: Carpentry Connect / Communication / Professional Development / Self-Organised Workshops /
Connect: Slack: NESI workspace /

Midwest (US) Carpentries Community

The Midwest (US) Carpentries Community is a regional subcommunity providing space to support workshop Instructors, hosts, and local institution organisers in the region to learn from one another.

Group type: Regional Group () /
Activities: Communication / Professional Development /
Connect: Slack: Carpentries workspace, #local-us-midwest / Mailing list /

UW-Madison Carpentries Community

This local subcommunity of workshop Instructors, helpers, and Lesson Developers includes research support staff from across the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, faculty members, and graduate students.

Group type: Local Group Madison, Wisconsin /
Activities: Professional Development / Self-Organised Workshops / Mentoring /
Connect: Email / Slack: data-science-hubgroup workspace, #uw_carpentries / Mailing list /

Smithsonian Institution Carpentries

The Smithsonian Institution has been a Carpentries Member Organisation since 2017, and a Platinum Member since 2021.

Group type: Local Group Mostly Washington, DC, but also Cambridge, MA (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) and Panama (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) /
Activities: Communication / Professional Development / Self-Organised Workshops /
Connect: Email / Slack: Smithsonian workspace, #carpentries-alumni /

Heidelberg Carpentries

The Heidelberg Carpentries subcommunity organises semi-regular, informal meetups for community members in the area. These social events are an opportunity for community members to meet and talk about teaching and other Carpentries-related topics.

Group type: Local Group Heidelberg /
Activities: Carpentry Connect /
Connect: Mailing list /

University of California Santa Barbara

The University of California Santa Barbara subcommunity hosts and organises data science workshops for the UCSB community. They also sponsor community members for Instructor certification.

Group type: Local Group Santa Barbara, California /
Activities: Carpentry Connect / Communication / Professional Development / Self-Organised Workshops / Mentoring /
Connect: Email / Slack: ucsbcarpentry workspace / Mailing list /

HPC Carpentry

HPC Carpentry represents a global community interested in documenting and teaching better practices in cluster-based scientific computing, especially the fundamentals of interacting with a large-scale, parallel, shared computing resource.

Group type: Domain Specific Group /
Activities: Carpentry Connect / Communication / Self-Organised Workshops /
Connect: Email / Slack: Carpentries workspace, #hpc-carpentry / Mailing list / Contact form / /

Carpentries-ja

Carpentries-ja is a subcommunity translating the Carpentries teaching materials into Japanese and conducting workshops in Japanese.

Group type: Language group /
Activities: Communication / Self-Organised Workshops / Translation /
Connect: Email / Slack: Carpentries workspace, #local-japan / /

Carpentry @ UiO

We are a local community of Instructors, helpers, Instructor Trainers and fans of The Carpentries. The community grew out of a couple of Instructors in 2015 and found its home at the University of Oslo Library, which became a member institution.

Group type: Local Group University of Oslo /
Activities: Carpentry Connect / Communication / Professional Development / Self-Organised Workshops / Mentoring /
Connect: Email / Slack: Carpentries workspace, #oslo-community /

The Carpentries in Africa

Group type: Regional Group (Countries in Africa) /
Activities: Carpentry Connect / Communication / Professional Development / Mentoring /
Connect: Slack: Carpentries workspace, #local-africa / Mailing list /

DACH-Region

The DACH Region includes community members in the countries Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Group type: Regional Group (DACH region) /
Activities: Communication / Fundraising /
Connect: Email / Slack: Carpentries workspace, #local-dach / Mailing list /

Carpentries @ VT

Carpentries @ VT is a community of Carpentries Instructors and Trainees connected to Virginia Tech. We organize 8-10 local workshops a year and meet monthly to support pedagogy and engagement with regional and international Carpentries communities.

Group type: Local Group Blacksburg, Virginia /
Activities: Carpentry Connect / Communication / Professional Development / Self-Organised Workshops / Mentoring /
Connect: Email /

Carpentries México

The Carpentries community has grown to about 20 Instructors in Mexico. We aim to promote good programming practices by strengthening Carpentries' presence within the Spanish-speaking academic community.

Group type: Local Group México /
Activities: Carpentry Connect / Professional Development / Self-Organised Workshops / Fundraising / Student Programs /
Connect: Email / Slack: Carpentries workspace / Mailing list / Contact person: Nelly Sélem /

Carpentries US-Northeast

The US-Northeast Carpentries subcommunity convenes for semi-regular, informal get-togethers and mentoring opportunities.

Group type: Regional Group (Boston) /
Activities: Carpentry Connect / Communication / Self-Organised Workshops / Mentoring /
Connect: Email / Slack: Carpentries workspace, #local-us-northeast / Contact person: Rachel Rome /

Carpentries Ukraine

Ukrainian Carpentries is a subcommunity translating the Carpentries teaching materials into Ukrainian language.

Group type: Language group /
Activities: Communication / Self-Organised Workshops / Translation /
Connect: Email / Slack: Carpentries workspace, #local-ukrainian / Contact person: Olexandr Konovalov /

Regional Communities Mailing Lists

All mailing lists for The Carpentries are hosted on Topicbox. This includes a number of mailing lists specific to local or regional communities.

Africa

Asia

Australia/New Zealand

Canada

Europe

Latin America

United States