University of Kansas Carpentries Instructors

May 5, 2025 Meeting Notes

Carpentries Instructors’ meeting

Present:

Brooks-Kieffer, Busch, Conway, Ramos, Sanderson

Agenda

Discussions

Instructor Training check in

Folks are planning for teaching demos during the summer.

Workshop planning

Agreement that a theme of reproducibility and collaboration would be good marketing for a series of Git / Bash / GitHub (in a TBD order). Version control is important but people have to be convinced. Options are to start with GitHub, which is often used for collaboration, or lean in to the hard and start with Git. Possibility of using LEGO for teaching Git. Scheduling a series in the same time block on the same day of the week should catch a consistent group of people. Tentative plans to structure a series using these topics and something about code review.

Discussion topics

Michelle moving to Michigan in July; we will miss her! Rob is planning for a metabarcoding workshop in the fall.

The instructor cohort will take a hiatus from meetings in June and July and will reconvene in August.

Notes by JBK, posted by JBK