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To build this site locally, follow the instructions in the theme's repo.

Run `make serve` in your project's folder to serve the site locally.

## Organizing content

On 18 November 2024, this site was released using Hugo as the static site generator. This README section will be updated as we add in more information about how to use the new infrastructure.

### Blog posts

Blog posts go in the `content/posts/YYYY/MM` folder. Images for the blog posts go in the corresponding `static/blog/YYYY/MM` folder. Note YYYY is the four digit year and MM is the two digit month.

The blog post date should be set in the file's front matter. Be sure the date and the file location match up.

**Blog post tags:** Whenever possible, make sure the tags are from our [list of existing tags](https://carpentries.org/blog/posts-by-tags/).

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Lecturing has been the default mode of instruction for centuries, as evidenced by its presence in medieval illuminations. As a mechanism for large-scale verbal dissemination of information, lecturing has served a valuable purpose. It’s relatively easy to get adult learners to sit still for an hour and hear what you have to say. But of course, in most cases, the end goal is not to have people listen to you speak, but to have them understand and be able to use new information in their thought process. In other words, you want them to learn something.

![Larentius de Voltolina lecture, mid-1300s]({{ site.urlimg }}/blog/medieval.png)
![Larentius de Voltolina lecture, mid-1300s](/blog/medieval.png)

We know that in many cases, simple exposure to information isn’t enough to learn it in the sense of integrating the information into a mental model and being able to use it to understand the world. The human brain is expert in tricking us into believing we understand something, for example by forcing new information into existing incorrect mental models of how the world works. This is one reason why asking learners if they have questions, or if “this all makes sense”, is ineffective. Even with the best of intentions, learners often don’t know when they’re confused.

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Instead, we carry out formative assessments using a very low-tech piece of technology - the humble sticky note. Learners are given two different colored sticky notes at the beginning of the workshop. These are used as progress flags during hands-on exercises to signal to the instructor and workshop helpers when learners are stuck (red sticky note) or have successfully completed the exercise (green sticky note). Learners can also use these at any time during the workshop to signal that they want help (red sticky note).

![Sticky notes]({{ site.urlimg }}/blog/stickies_brisbane.png)
![Sticky notes](/blog/stickies_brisbane.png)

This system lets instructors quickly gauge the room’s progress and adjust their teaching pace, while simultaneously allowing resources (helpers) to be efficiently targeted towards those learners who need assistance. By making it unnecessary for learners to raise their hands, sticky notes also provide two other benefits - they make it more likely that learners will ask for help (putting up a sticky note is less emotionally threatening than sitting there with a hand raised), and they let learners who are struggling continue to work (it’s hard to type one-handed).

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I even confessed to my colleagues that the data I left behind for up and coming grad students is so disorganized, I sent them an e-mail to apologize! This community has made a believer out of me, and for good reason: Our workshops work.

See for yourself. Read the [report]({{ site.urlimg }}/Data-Carpentry-Assessment-Report-Published.pdf) of the recent analysis of Data Carpentry’s post-workshop surveys.
See for yourself. Read the [report](/Data-Carpentry-Assessment-Report-Published.pdf) of the recent analysis of Data Carpentry’s post-workshop surveys.

You can run your own analysis, too! The data is available in the [assessment repo](https://github.com/carpentries/assessment) on GitHub.

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In November 2014 the [first large-scale Software Carpentry event was run in South Africa](https://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/12/cape-town-swc.html) [1] as part of the [eResearch Africa conference](http://eresearch.ac.za/) [2] in Cape Town. Since then 15 more [Software]( https://software-carpentry.org/blog/2016/01/a-year-of-swc-in-south-africa.html), [Data](http://www.datacarpentry.org/blog/genomics-nwu/), and/or [Library Carpentry](https://cmacdonell.github.io/2016-08-25-CSIR/) events were run by the Southern African community across many disciplines and several institutions [3, 4, 5].

![Feedback from the NWU Genomics Data Carpentry Workshop in September 2016]({{ site.urlimg }}/blog/Feedback-SA-DC-Genomics.png)
![Feedback from the NWU Genomics Data Carpentry Workshop in September 2016](/blog/Feedback-SA-DC-Genomics.png)

The [North-West University](http://www.nwu.ac.za) [6] has been heavily involved in further developing the Southern African Carpentry community. In 2015 NWU led the development of a [12-month proposal](https://figshare.com/articles/A_Programme_for_the_Development_of_Computational_and_Digital_Research_Capacity_in_South_Africa_and_Africa_-_phase_1/3382168) [9] that kicked off in April 2016 with the [first South African in-person instructor training](https://software-carpentry.org/blog/2016/04/south-africa-instructor-training.html) event [10]. Since 2015 NWU has been involved in four internal Software and Data Carpentry events as well as four events run at other Southern African institutions. The university currently has five qualified instructors as well as two preparing for check-out. Instructors hail from diverse disciplines such as genomics, digital humanities, chemistry, and IT.

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and Excel spreadsheets.

<div style="text-align:center">
<img src="{{ site.urlimg }}/blog/bar_participants_affiliations.png" width="400px"
<img src="/blog/bar_participants_affiliations.png" width="400px"
style="display:inline-block;margin-left:auto;margin-right: auto" />
<img src="{{site.urlimg }}/blog/wordcloud_participants_departments.png" width="400px"
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Schurch from UMC Utrecht introducing the Unix shell and file system
navigation.

![Lex Nederbragt kicking off the first day]({{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2017-ams/day1.jpeg)
![Lex Nederbragt kicking off the first day](/blog/2017-ams/day1.jpeg)

The following day Denis Schmitz and Sam Nooij from National Institute
for Public Health and the Environment continued the Unix shell lesson,
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The event closed with drinks and snacks at nearby Maslov Cafe.

![Post workshop recovery session]({{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2017-ams/maslov.jpeg)
![Post workshop recovery session](/blog/2017-ams/maslov.jpeg)

We are just at the beginning of the journey. More work needs to be
done on improving genomics lesson, and Data Carpentry is looking
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Through this process, I had the opportunity to talk individually with
nearly half (46%) of current Maintainers. The emergent themes from
these conversations are detailed in the [Carpentry Maintainer Interviews - 2017 Report]({{ site.urlimg }}blog/Report-maintainer-interviews-2017-public-version.pdf) and include:
these conversations are detailed in the [Carpentry Maintainer Interviews - 2017 Report](blog/Report-maintainer-interviews-2017-public-version.pdf) and include:

- Aspects of the Maintainer experience that people enjoy are the opportunity to shape the lesson, to interact with the community, the chance to learn new things, and the ability to have a larger impact.
- Major issues that Maintainers experience are a sense of being overwhelmed, wanting more guidance and help, clarity about their roles and authority, and overall negative feelings about their level of involvement in their lessons.
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The Bug BBQ was a success in catalysing a high volume of activity from the community across all of our lesson repositories. Overall, 224 issues or pull requests were opened and/or closed during the Bug BBQ. This represents a significant increase in activity above our baseline and shows that our community really pulled together to contribute collectively during these two days.


<img src="{{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2018/04/n_issues-1.png" title="plot of chunk n_issues" alt="plot of chunk n_issues" width="100%" />
<img src="/blog/2018/04/n_issues-1.png" title="plot of chunk n_issues" alt="plot of chunk n_issues" width="100%" />

A large proportion of these issues and pull requests (137 of 224) were made to the Geospatial and Social Science repositories, which are in the process of being prepared for their first publication this year. We had 74 unique contributors who interacted with issues and pull requests during the Bug BBQ. This is a huge win for our community!

<img src="{{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2018/04/visits-1.png" title="plot of chunk visits" alt="plot of chunk visits" width="100%" />
<img src="/blog/2018/04/visits-1.png" title="plot of chunk visits" alt="plot of chunk visits" width="100%" />


Thank you to all of you who contributed during the Bug BBQ. We hope you had a great experience working on these lessons and interacting
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## Tweets timeline

![plot of chunk timeline]({{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2018/06/2018-06-11-carpentrycon-tweets-timeline-1.png)
![plot of chunk timeline](/blog/2018/06/2018-06-11-carpentrycon-tweets-timeline-1.png)


## The 5 most favorited tweets
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All generated tweets (including retweets)

![plot of chunk top-users-all]({{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2018/06/2018-06-11-carpentrycon-tweets-top-users-all-1.png)
![plot of chunk top-users-all](/blog/2018/06/2018-06-11-carpentrycon-tweets-top-users-all-1.png)

Only for original tweets (retweets excluded)

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## Most favourited/retweeted users
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### Number of favourites received by users

![plot of chunk unnamed-chunk-1]({{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2018/06/2018-06-11-carpentrycon-tweets-unnamed-chunk-1-1.png)
![plot of chunk unnamed-chunk-1](/blog/2018/06/2018-06-11-carpentrycon-tweets-unnamed-chunk-1-1.png)

### Number of retweets received by users

![plot of chunk most-rt-received]({{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2018/06/2018-06-11-carpentrycon-tweets-most-rt-received-1.png)
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### Mean numbers of favourites received

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### Mean numbers of retweets received

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## Word cloud

The top 100 words among the original tweets.

![plot of chunk word-cloud]({{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2018/06/2018-06-11-carpentrycon-tweets-word-cloud-1.png)
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## Most used emojis




![plot of chunk emoji]({{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2018/06/2018-06-11-carpentrycon-tweets-emoji-1.png)
![plot of chunk emoji](/blog/2018/06/2018-06-11-carpentrycon-tweets-emoji-1.png)


## Most commonly associated words


![plot of chunk word-pairs]({{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2018/06/2018-06-11-carpentrycon-tweets-word-pairs-1.png)
![plot of chunk word-pairs](/blog/2018/06/2018-06-11-carpentrycon-tweets-word-pairs-1.png)

## Sentiment analysis


![plot of chunk sentiment]({{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2018/06/2018-06-11-carpentrycon-tweets-sentiment-1.png)
![plot of chunk sentiment](/blog/2018/06/2018-06-11-carpentrycon-tweets-sentiment-1.png)


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In the diagram below, you can see that we've been growing memberships and have recently crossed a threshold where new memberships (those which began within the most recent trailing year) are outpacing renewals by 5%. These are exciting times in the growth of The Carpentries and the buy-in we're seeing from research institutions around the world. Your work as Instructors and volunteers in the organisation is having tremendous impact in how organisations think about developing peer-learning communities of practice.

<iframe src="{{ site.urlimg }}blog/2018/07/membership_sankey.html" width="700" height="450" frameborder="0" style="border:0"></iframe>
<iframe src="blog/2018/07/membership_sankey.html" width="700" height="450" frameborder="0" style="border:0"></iframe>

The main benefit of our memberships today is through Instructor training for people at the member organisations. On top of Instructor training, key pieces of infrastructure have been developed and are supported (etherpads, GitHub organisations, websites, documentation, Zoom, etc.) which enable and catalyse the activities of our growing instructor community. We also work to help connect and communicate successes and challenges in growing local communities.

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heard about, is quite hard. Especially at a time when travel budgets are cut and embargoes are being placed on travel
(most notably for university support staff).

![Community photo from CarpentryConnect Johannesburg 2018]({{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2019/01/carpentryconnectjhb.jpg)
![Community photo from CarpentryConnect Johannesburg 2018](/blog/2019/01/carpentryconnectjhb.jpg)
*Community photo from CarpentryConnect Johannesburg, 2018*

The good news was that the [Rural Campuses Connection Project II](https://tenet-rccpii.github.io/rccpii-2018/)
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available in Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_academic_disciplines). In our graph “IT” represents
both IT as a support division and IT as an academic department based on how people completed their registration forms.

![Distribution of participants' disciplines at CarpentryConnect Johannesburg]({{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2019/01/carpentryconnect-jhb-disciplines.png)
![Distribution of participants' disciplines at CarpentryConnect Johannesburg](/blog/2019/01/carpentryconnect-jhb-disciplines.png)

There was a lot of interest in bringing The Carpentries to participants’ home institutions at the end of the week.
In October 2018 we did a roadshow in follow-up to CarpentryConnect to universities in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu Natal.
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Still not sure what to expect? Following the success of the inaugural CarpentryCon in Dublin last summer, several of the attendees [wrote about their experiences](https://carpentries.org/blog/2018/06/carpentry-con-report/) describing some of the workshops and breakouts, reflecting on their experiences, and generally celebrating the chance to bring such a diverse and dispersed community together. The organising taskforce of CarpentryConnect Manchester 2019, chaired by Aleks Nenadic from the [Software Sustainability Institute](https://www.software.ac.uk) and including several organisers of CarpentryCon, has every intention of creating a sister event with a similar atmosphere of **creativity, inclusivity and optimism**, and a [love of using sticky notes](https://datacarpentry.org/blog/2016/09/formative-assessment) for almost everything.

![community members in discussion over tea at Carpentry Commect in Dublin, 2018]({{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2019/02/carpentrycon2018-break.jpg)
![community members in discussion over tea at Carpentry Commect in Dublin, 2018](/blog/2019/02/carpentrycon2018-break.jpg)
*Toby Hodges, front center, in discussion with other community members over tea. <br/>[CarpentryCon Dublin 2018 by Bérénice Batut, CC BY-SA 2.0](https://www.flickr.com/photos/134305289@N03/28643236958/in/album-72157667641880727/)*

We have planned the event with bursts of lightning talks and breakout sessions to **spark conversation**, long breaks to create space for deeper **discussion and networking**, and an emphasis on workshops and tutorials to **gain new skills**. The structure of the programme ([draft available here](https://software.ac.uk/ccmcr19/programme)) reflects the importance placed on **community building and professional development** that I have been so inspired by at previous events organised both by the [Research Software Engineers Association](https://rse.ac.uk) and [The Carpentries](https://carpentries.org). The conference offers a chance to learn about and discuss the latest developments and challenges in computational teaching and research software development, to access training in relevant skills, tools, and resources, and to get to know other members of this warm and welcoming community. For more detail on the programme, keep an eye out as we announce our keynote speakers over the coming weeks or [register to receive an email with updates](http://bit.ly/2SCbwBl).
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* 130+ qualified instructors
* 7 member institutions

![Past Software Carpentry workshops in Australia]({{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2019/03/aus_swc_map.png)<br/>
![Past Software Carpentry workshops in Australia](/blog/2019/03/aus_swc_map.png)<br/>
*Past Software Carpentry workshops in Australia*

With the recent announcement of an official [Regional Coordinator](https://carpentries.org/blog/2019/03/regionalcoordinators/) for Australia, now is a good time to take stock of how things are travelling. In particular, our workshop statistics suggest that growth has levelled off in recent years (see below).
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Hope to see you there!


![Carpentries workshops per year in Australia]({{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2019/03/aus_workshop_stats.png)
![Carpentries workshops per year in Australia](/blog/2019/03/aus_workshop_stats.png)

![Carpentries learners per year in Australia]({{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2019/03/aus_learner_stats.png)
![Carpentries learners per year in Australia](/blog/2019/03/aus_learner_stats.png)

![Carpentries instructors per year in Australia]({{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2019/03/aus_instructor_stats.png)
![Carpentries instructors per year in Australia](/blog/2019/03/aus_instructor_stats.png)
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