University of Kansas Carpentries Instructors

August 4, 2025 Meeting Notes

Carpentries Instructors’ meeting

Present:

Brooks-Kieffer, Durham, Sanderson

Agenda

Discussions

Instructor Training check in

One person is attending instructor training in September.

Workshop planning

Discussed offering the “vegetables” of Bash shell, version control, and code review through an appealing theme; settled on “reproducible data science.” Floated a few possible schedules based on the February R workshop on Tues/Thurs afternoons, with a proposal for Mon/Wed/Fri afternoon for three topics: Bash shell, command line Git, and code review with GitHub. Plan to put a call for interest out on the Instructors’ mailing list and go from there.

Discussed possible relevant lessons, including content for the code review portion, which doesn’t have a canonical lesson. In the shared document, listed official, incubator, and other lessons for pull requests, collaborative workflows, and project governance.

Notes by JBK, posted by JBK