Carpentries Instructors’ meeting
- Monday, December 05, 2022
- 9:00-10:00 AM
Present:
Albin, Brooks-Kieffer, Hanson, Everman, Kisielinski, Koseva, Ramos, Babbit, Trana, Dwyer, Katzer, Russell
Announcements
None
Agenda
- Data Carpentry Genomics: Planning update
- Planning/Brainstorming Spring Workshops
- Q&A and support for instructor training and checkout tasks
- Monthly meeting day/time
- Other topics
Discussions
Data Carpentry Genomics: Planning update
- Agreed dates: Jan 10, 11, 12
- Registration 30?; waitlist cap 5;
- Suggest announcement by Dec 9 (this Friday!)
- 30 seems too high for registration
- JBK gave background on this cap; helped with Fall 2022 attendance numbers, but Genomics attendees are usually more motivated to attend. Tami will discuss with Elizabeth.
- Same 3 day format as previous Genomics.
- Caroline has email drafted for who is teaching what module; will follow up with Boryana
- Amanda K. can help with this workshop if needed
Planning/Brainstorming Spring Workshops
- Paul – thoughts on SQL; will need to step back from Carpentries group for a few months; struggling to find the place in his current job where he uses it. Will be working on this this spring, but needs a few months to transition.
- Interested in teaching SQL later
- Question about visualization lesson in Incubator; interested to learn more about lessons in the Incubator. If interest in injecting more about certain tools in the intro data viz, e.g.: PowerBI, please let him know.
- For Kaylen – interest in presenting about DH to English faculty at Peru State? Interest in hearing more. Kaylen has contacts at UNL and could be interested in talking more.
- Casey – no strong preference on what topic the workshop is; any workshop with a Bash Shell component he will offer to teach
- Kaylen – enjoyed Python with Boryana; a KU group was very interested in the workshop but couldn’t register. Her primary commitment is to Humanities folks; wants to find a way to make sure these folks can get in to a workshop. Send out the link ahead of time to a specific group to give priority access. We could also do a workshop that is specifically for a group of people.
- General – workshops can be small and focused to fit a specific need, especially if there is an instructor that is excited about teaching something or knows of a need. Talk to Elizabeth and Tami if you have an idea.
Q&A and support for instructor training and checkout tasks
Katie – finished the training workshop, has finished discussion checkout task; scheduled for teaching demo later this month; lesson contribution still outstanding; wants to complete everything by the end of the year.
Monthly meeting day/time
Votes for keep this day/time since it’s working.
January 3rd meeting: will plan to meet on this day, last minute check in on the genomics workshop
General Discussion
- One person workshop – Rob Ramos. at Haskell. Workshop on graphical data science in R, used Ecology lesson.
- Casey – two weeks at SC (SuperComputing) conference; recommend attending at some point – industry, education, research, national laboratories. Live computing demos on the exhibition floor. Scholarships are available (or have been). Next year is in Denver, CO.
Notes by Guest Contributor, posted by ERE