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The Carpentries: Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry and Library Carpentry. An open global community teaching the skills and perspectives to turn data into knowledge
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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."
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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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)
November 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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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
November 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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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.)
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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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.
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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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.
November 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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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."
November 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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🌍 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.
November 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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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.
Jannetta presenting at the conference. Jannetta presenting at the conference.
September 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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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. 👏
Headshot of Toby outside the conference venue.
September 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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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.
September 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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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. 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.
September 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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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!
A screenshot of the "Gratitude of the Month" section of The Carpentries 24 July 2025 newsletter. The text reads: "This month we express our gratitude to Aman Goel, Research Software Engineer (RSE) at the University of Manchester, for leading the organisation of a Training Community Day to follow RSECon25 in September! We expect this conference satellite event to bring together many members of the Carpentries community in the UK and beyond. Aman worked tirelessly to get everything scheduled, handled almost all the logistics, and obtained multiple sponsorships for the event. Thank you, Aman, for your contributions to The Carpentries community!" Training Community Day is hyperlinked to: https://lu.ma/mm03rimf. The text is accompanied by the Carpentries Gratitudes heart, which is a heart-shaped symbol with The Carpentries logo at its centre. There is also a headshot image of Aman Goel, which is captioned as "found online and may be subject to copyright." In the caption, Aman Goel is hyperlinked to: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amangoel185/.
July 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Upcoming community sessions next week
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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
June 23, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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🚀 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...
June 17, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Upcoming community sessions next week
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Events are in UTC Time :

📣 Welcome Session with The Carpentries
17 June 2025 01:00

🕸️ 🛠️ Creating a workshop website
18 June 2025 14:00

📣 HPC Carpentry Community Call
19 June 2025 11:00 & 21:00
June 16, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Our Director of Workshops & Training, SherAaron Hurt, is at the Black Woman Leading Conference! She'll be reflecting, strategising, and leaving with practical action steps critical to her holistic growth as a leader, and which she'll bring to her role in our Core Team! blackwomanleading.com/retreat/
Image of SherAaron Hurt leading a fitness class for other black women.
May 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Congratulations to all the prize winners of The Carpentries Duck Hunt 🐤 at #PyConUS!

But we're still here. Pop by, say hi to our ED @drkariljordan.bsky.social & Assoc. Director of Technology, Maneesha Sane at our booth (622).

And don't miss Kari's closing keynote, May 18, 3.15-4PM EDT at Hall B. 🥳
Image of Carpentries rubber ducklets with Carpentries stickies underneath. Image of Kari and Maneesha sitting at The Carpentries booth at #PyConUS.
May 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Esaya from Zimbabwe is our first duck hunt winner! 🎉🏆

There are still many more ducks hidden throughout the venue, so keep searching! #PyConUS
Image of Esaya, holding up a Carpentries duck in his hand.
May 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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🐣 It’s DUCK SEASON at PyCon US!

The Carpentries is hosting a Duck Hunt — find a hidden ducky, bring it to our booth (622), and win a prize! 🏆

👀 Keep your eyes open… some duckies unlock bonus surprises 🪙
#TheCarpentries #PyConUS
An image of a Carpentries duck on a balustrade overlooking a river. Image of The Carpentries' booth. It has a table draped with a Carpentries banner. There are two chairs, and behind the chairs a screen.
May 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Countdown to #PyConUS begins! 🤩

Starting from May 14, we'll engage with the Python community on all things #Python. 🐍 Our ED @drkariljordan.bsky.social & Assoc. Dir. of Technology, Maneesha Sane, will be there.

Come by our booth (622) and find out what (prize-winning) activities we have planned! 🏆
A PyConUS 2025 promotional poster that announcing, "The Carpentries is coming to PyCon US!" It includes the dates 14 - 22 May 2025, and the name of town of Pittsburgh.
May 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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REMINDER: Our ED @drkariljordan.bsky.social will deliver the closing keynote at #PyConUS 2025, and she is calling for stories from our community on how you use #Python. She wishes to feature some of these stories in her address.

Please share your story with us: carpentries.typeform.com/to/nkRxLsri
A promotional poster for PyCon US 2025 featuring the headshots and names of the 5 keynote speakers: Geoff Hing and Tom Meagher of The Marshall Project, Lynn Root, Cory Doctorow, and Dr. Kari L. Jordan.
April 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Last week The Carpentries attended the 2025 Annual Convention of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)!

We’re honored to have been part of this milestone 50th anniversary year, with Dr. Sarah Brown leading a Software Carpentry Python Workshop! 🎉

#CarpentriesWorkshops #NSBE2025 #NSBE50
A room filled with participants sitting at tables with their laptops open, engaged in a Python workshop. A presenter stands at a podium at the front, teaching, while a projector displays content on a large screen. The attendees appear focused, following along with the lesson. A room filled with participants sitting at tables with their laptops open, engaged in a Python workshop. A presenter stands at a podium at the front, teaching, while a projector displays content on a large screen. The attendees appear focused, following along with the lesson. A presenter at the podium with a screen behind her. on which Python lesson material is projected. A room filled with participants sitting at tables with their laptops open, engaged in a Python workshop. A presenter stands at a podium at the front, teaching, while a projector displays content on a large screen. The attendees appear focused, following along with the lesson.
March 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Our subcommunity in NZ/Aotearoa hosted a #CarpentryConnect event this week! Our Executive Director @drkariljordan.bsky.social attended and delivered a keynote. We also extend thanks to Tom Pollard, Christopher Endemann, Iva Momcheva, Olga Mineava & Giulia Crocioni.

(Photos shared by Nisha Ghatak.)
Some of the attendees and speakers at the Carpentry Connect in NZ. Some of the attendees and speakers at the Carpentry Connect in NZ posing in The Carpentries "C" wave. Kari L. Jordan presenting.
February 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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As of today The Carpentries is officially an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organisation! We take this joyous moment to express our deepest gratitude to the incredible community that has brought us here. Here’s to the future of The Carpentries—built on the foundation of an extraordinary community!
A square poster with The Carpentries logo at the top left corner, and "THE CARPENTRIES IS NOW INDEPENDENT" as the main title at the top centre. Below the title is confetti in various colours
February 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM