University of Kansas Carpentries Instructors

April 7, 2025 Meeting Notes

Carpentries Instructors’ meeting

Present:

Brooks-Kieffer, Conway, Hanson, Ramos, Sanderson, Wilhelm

Agenda

Discussions

Instructor Training check in

Time zone mismatches cause trouble! Rescheduling teaching demos for this month.

Workshop planning

Unlikely to host an official Carpentries summer workshop. Brian is interested in more R workshops since they’re useful foundations for other training. Also interested in workshops relevant for scientific software development; planning a survey in his department about missing technology topics. Jamene is interested in these results. Taylor interested in Git/GitHub since lots of people need this topic; we had a brief discussion about starting with Git or starting with GitHub. Rob is still looking to organize a workshop this summer and will be in touch for planning tips.

Discussion topics

Jess is co-teaching an R workshop at Howard University; their advertising graphic is really appealing and fun.

The group briefly discussed taking a summer hiatus as we did last year but came to no conclusions.

Notes by JBK, posted by JBK