Carpentries Instructors’ meeting
- Monday, April 1, 2024
- 9:00-10:00 AM
Present:
Albin, Brooks-Kieffer, Hanson, Sanderson, Wilhelm
Announcements
None
Agenda
- Future workshops
- Debrief Data Carpentry Geospatial(March 25-26)
- Other projects
Discussions
Future workshops
We tend to avoid scheduling workshops during semester breaks and theh summer. There is interest in offering Python this fall; Katie and Brian are comfortable enough with it to teach it. Perhaps we can find other instructors to teach the shell and Git lessons and offer a full Software Carpentry workshop.
Jess is interested in any work on a time series workshop.
Debrief Data Carpentry Geospatial Workshop
None of the Geospatial instructors were able to attend. Jamene ran through a few takeaways:
- Software installation for this workshop is very challenging on a Mac.
- The lesson material is a bit out of date, calling for an R package that has been deprecated by CRAN and linking to some stale software install options.
- Attendance was okay compared to registration. Some folks who were newer to R managed to stick with the whole workshop, which was awesome.
Project Updates
Brian is interested in a future Biohackathon, perhaps as a summer project. The event would collect ideas that would benefit from some coding efforts and put out a call for participation to help with the coding. Suggestions included movies (War Games, Hackers, Gattaca) and a possibility of using space in KU Libraries. The Libraries’ Sprints call for proposal might be a useful model for further planning.
Notes by JBK, posted by JBK