The Carpentries

Join us next week Tuesday for a Community Session reviewing the procedures taken by the Carpentries Code of Conduct Committee when an incident (a report about a Code of Conduct violation) is reported by the community.

We will discuss what happens "behind the scenes" and highlight some key decision points.

🖥️ Event: Code of Conduct Violation Reporting: What Happens?
📆 Date: Tuesday, 7 April
⏰️ Time: 15:30 UTC

Sign up on Pretix: https://pretix.carpentries.org/community-events/community-sessions/743/

Join us for a hands-on session on how to create a website for your Carpentries workshop. You will learn the basics of setting up and managing a workshop site, with guided support throughout.

🖥️ Event: Creating a Workshop Website Skill-up 🛠️
📆 Date: Thursday, 2 April
⏰️ Time: 08:30 UTC

You will need a GitHub account to participate in this session.

Sign up on Pretix: https://pretix.carpentries.org/community-events/community-sessions/742/

Our Executive Director @drkariljordan@mastodon.social will be speaking at the upcoming workshop convened by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Education and Workforce Trajectories in Tech.

🗣️ Session Title: How AI is Influencing the Tech Workforce
🗓️ Date: Monday, 30 March 2026
⏰ Time: 2:50–4:20 PM EST

Registration is open to the public, and we invite the Carpentries community and broader network to join us: https://events.nationalacademies.org/46359

Kari will be joined by an incredible group of leaders to explore how AI is reshaping technical roles, redefining core competencies, and transforming how organisations build and support their workforce. From upskilling strategies to new partnership models, the conversation will tackle what it takes to thrive in an AI-integrated world.

This is an important conversation for anyone thinking about the future of work, education, and the evolving role of human expertise in an AI-driven world. We invite the Carpentries community and broader network to join us. Register and be part of the discussion shaping the future of the tech workforce.

We’re excited to invite you to our Software Carpentry Python: Coding for Beginners workshop in partnership with Instats!

🗓️ Dates: 22-23 April, 2026
🕙 Time: 8:00 am - 12:00 pm North American Eastern Time (UTC -4)
💻 Location: Zoom

Taught by certified Carpentries Instructors, our #Python workshop is an introduction to programming for those with little or no previous experience.

Welcoming, hands-on and interactive, this workshop teaches the fundamentals of #Python, preparing learners to:

• Automate repetitive tasks to process data efficiently
• Use conditionals to initiate code
• Write functions to perform tasks
• Create plots (visual representations of data) to recognise trends, patterns, and relationships within datasets.

Interested in learning more? Please use the following link to find costs, full details, and to register: https://instats.org/seminar/plotting-and-programming-in-python

We can’t wait to learn with you! 🌟

EDIT: Updated to add event link.

The Carpentries has fantastic representation at the National Society of Black Engineers Convention in Baltimore #NSBE2026. 🌟

Today, Carpentries Instructor, Sarah Brown, is teaching a Software Carpentry Python workshop, with Syreeta Thomas as helper.

Moreover, our Executive Director @drkariljordan@mastodon.social and our Director of Workshops and Training, SherAaron Hurt, are also in attendance! 💙 👏

Wishing everyone a fruitful convening at #NSBE2026!

📢 #Opportunity: Applications are open for the Aspen Policy Academy’s Building Nonprofit Advocacy Capacity short course! This free, part-time, virtual course is perfect for public interest organizations looking to scale their impact and reach new stakeholders.

🗓️ Dates: May 11–15, 2025
⌚ Schedule: Classes from 9-11am PT / 12-2pm ET daily
⏰ Application Deadline: April 5, 2026, at 11:59pm PT

🔗 Learn more and apply here: https://aspenpolicyacademy.org/program/building-nonprofit-advocacy-capacity/

#AspenPolicyAcademy #PolicyTraining #NonprofitLeaders #Advocacy #PublicPolicy #ProfessionalDevelopment #FreeCourse #VirtualLearning #NonprofitResource

This week, our Executive Director @drkariljordan@mastodon.social is attending the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Annual Meeting as a representative of one of the 660 projects in attendance.

Her goal is to share what The Carpentries is doing to build AI curriculum, and gain insights into what other projects are doing.

RE: @thecarpentries@hachyderm.io

📢 REMINDER: Today is the last day to apply to become a Lesson Program Governor for the Data Carpentry project!

It's been a busy week away from the office for our Director of Curriculum Toby Hodges who attended the #deRSE26 conference at the University of Stuttgart!

He presented a talk on the developments around the AI Carpentry project, and also co-led two HPC Carpentry-related sessions.

Toby's talk, "Training to Protect Research Integrity in the Age of AI-assisted Coding," explored some of the open questions surrounding the use of LLMs for coding in research, including: what role should RSEs take in an environment where it has never been easier for researchers to produce code? https://events.hifis.net/event/2945/contributions/21155/

The talk was very well attended and received lots of really positive feedback afterwards about the direction the AI Carpentry project is headed, giving us confidence that we are on the right track. Thanks everyone for your contributions to the project so far!

And thank you, Toby, for all that you do for The Carpentries and our curricula! 🙏💙

If you are a Carpentries community member based in Germany and you want to apply for this, please reach out to our Director of Curriculum, Toby Hodges, and let him know how he can support you! https://www.sovereign.tech/news/2026-fellowship-applications-open

Join us next week for one of two Lesson Developer Community Meetings! 🌟

These are open sessions for lesson developers in The Carpentries community to meet, share experiences, ask questions related to lesson development, and explore opportunities for collaboration.

📆 Date: Weds, 11 March
⏰️ Time: 10:00 + 22:00 UTC

Sign up on Pretix.

👉 Session 1 (10:00 UTC): https://pretix.carpentries.org/community-events/community-sessions/464/

👉 Session 2 (22:00 UTC): https://pretix.carpentries.org/community-events/community-sessions/465/

📢 We recently released some updates on AMY, our community data management software, and we are calling on our Instructors, Instructor Trainers, Maintainers, and all other Carpentries community members with a profile on AMY to please take a few minutes to update your airport location (now a required field) and any other outdated information on your AMY profile. 🙏

Keeping your AMY profile up to date allows us to connect the right people to the right opportunities, strengthen regional support, recognise your contributions, and measure the real impact of our programs around the world. 💙

Please update your profile now: https://carpentries.org/blog/2026/03/please-update-your-amy-profile/

📢 Today we relaunched The Carpentries’ main website and its Lesson Programs websites! 🎉

Updates to the sites have been in process for some time, and we are pleased to finally share the outcomes of all that work with you. We invite any feedback you may have as we continue to improve these websites.

Find out about the changes we made, and explore the new websites linked in this relaunch announcement: https://carpentries.org/blog/2024/11/the-carpentries-websites-relaunched/

#Carpentries #SoftwareCarpentry #DataCarpentry #LibraryCarpentry