[RITL] UCSC Joining the Carpentries

[Katherine Koziar]

Hi, Chuck.

Thanks for the welcome and info on the program.  The library offers Carpentries workshops (including during the pandemic), and I'm fairly active in the community. Internally in Library Research Services, we've discussed the topic of membership several times, but have not pursued finding funds since we're able to self-organize workshops at no cost because I'm a certified instructor, and the additional benefit we wanted (to certify an instructor trainer) was only available at the Platinum membership level ($15k+).  I've also been advocating for a system-wide UC membership, which would (hopefully) allow smaller campuses like ours to certify instructor trainers.

It looks like The Carpentries has changed membership benefits, so we can revisit it again, but I doubt the library can absorb membership fees on our own.

In terms of how others at UCR can become involved and stay coordinated, they can talk with me.  I organize workshops using people who are interested in helping and teaching.  The core group of instructors and helpers are in the library; however, I also mentor grad students who have attended workshops on instruction, and we follow a path to allow them to co-teach.

Also, this September we're offering multiple options for workshop attendance.  A face-to-face workshop is scheduled Sept 15-16 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/software-carpentry-workshop-tickets-408766851657), and we are participating in a virtual UC-Joint Carpentries Workshop (https://events.ucr.edu/event/uc-joint_carpentries_workshop_coding_and_data_management_virtual_5145), which will occur from Sept 6 - 13 (9 - noon, daily).

Feel free to share the event information, or contact me if you or someone you know wants to help with the in-person workshop.

Best,

-kat


Katherine E. Koziar
Data Librarian
UCR Library | University of California, Riverside

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Subject: Fw: UCSC Joining the Carpentries

Hi Kat,

Welcome again to the group and thanks for joining, Library partnership and support are essential for UCR research support.

I know you did some Carpentries classes in the past. We should see if we can also get on the website with the other UCs.

This is a great program and I love to see it ramp up even more. The scope of the Carpentries is expanding and it's as you know a great teaching tool.

What's the best way others at UCR can become involved with the Carpentries and stay coordinated?


Regards,



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Subject: Re: UCSC Joining the Carpentries

Hi Jeff,

The West Hub<https://www.westbigdatahub.org/> is also a member (managed between SDSC, UC Berkeley, UW). Mentioning so people think of us as a resource for train the trainer opportunities and hosted Carpentries events.  We are working on a new Public Access curriculum that brings Data Carpentry skills with practical examples for government and non-profit partners (to enable Data Science for Social Good type projects). That curriculum should be available late this fall. We plan to share via the Carpentries channels.  You are right - this is a good group for advertising creation of new things as well as perhpas, open seats at upcoming trainings.

Good luck with your procurement process, Jeff!

Thanks,
Christine
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Dear Colleagues,

UCSC will be joining The Carpentries at the Silver level. While this is great news for our campus, given the state of procurement these days, we anticipate some headwinds when trying to get their membership agreement through purchasing.

>From The Carpentries website, I see that some UC campuses are already members:

UCLA
UCSB
UC Merced
UCSD

I'm not sure if our procurement will have specific questions or concerns, but I am hoping that if we do encounter any, the RITC folks from member campuses might put me in contact with their purchasing folks to speak to ours. Sometimes that helps...

Once we get started, we plan to offer several general courses (Software, Data, Library), but we will likely also partner with our faculty to develop specialized trainings based on research affinity groups. We'd be happy to share these curricula. And I was thinking that maybe we could have something of a clearing house for training developed locally. We might be able to offer a wider variety of trainings if we shared in this way.

Anyway, thanks in advance for the support in this effort.

Cheers,
Jeff W.



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