The CarpentriesGrowing Inclusive, Computational

Communities and Leaders

2019

Kari L. Jordan, PhDExecutive Director

What an incredible year 2019 has been! Myfavorite moments include onboardingRegional Coordinators in New Zealand,Southern Africa, and the Nordic Countries,releasing the first iteration of ourCurriculum Development Handbook, ourJune lesson release (36 lessons werepublished!), the excitement we receivedfrom the community about our Equity,Inclusion, and Accessibility Roadmap,CarpentryConnect Manchester, and ofcourse, the release of our vision statement,nine core values, and strategic plan. Thisyear we also bid farewell to TheCarpentries first Executive Director, Dr.Tracy Teal. We are extremely excited aboutall that the organisation accomplishedunder her leadership, and as your ExecutiveDirector I cannot tell you how proud I am ofthe work our Core Team and community isundertaking during this transition. Of the many challenges and opportunities(“chopportunities”) we prepared for in2020, one could not have expected to facea global pandemic. We must now adjust theways we work together and prioritise ourwork as COVID-19 continues to impact us inunprecedented ways. We understand theimpact this crisis has on our community asthe world shifts to virtual instruction. Theimportance of digital skills is undeniable;educators and organisations are rallyingtogether to support effective instructionalstrategies.

The Carpentries supports 1,700+ highlyskilled instructors and an establisheddigital skills curricula. We have experiencetraining educators. We are uniquelypositioned to support the shift in thenature of education around the world. With$2.65 million in funding from the Gordonand Betty Moore Foundation and ChanZuckerberg Initiative for scaling ourinstructor training and curriculumdevelopment programs, we are ready torespond to this challenge. Now more thanever we need you to champion our mission.Let’s rise to the occasion - together. Onward.

A message from our Executive Director

Cover image by Tania Allard is licensed CC BY 4.0

This second year of being The Carpentrieshas transformed our community from aloose conglomeration of individuals into aunified organism working in support of adefined set of community values. We areproud of our substantial growth ofcommunity members and increases inglobal participation and are excited thatour new members are beginning theirexperiences under this unified Carpentriesidentity. We may be working acrossheterogenous domains, audiences, andexperience levels, but our shared missionand vision bind us together. The ExecutiveCouncil’s goals for 2020 are to moveforward priorities identified on thestrategic plan developed by the 2019Executive Council, and to continue to growstrategically while developing innovativemethods of sustainability and scalingacross the globe.

In 2018, Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry,and Software Carpentry came together asa single organisation, dedicated to buildinga stronger community for teaching thecomputational skills we believe are key toresearch in many different fields. In 2019,members of each of these LessonPrograms contributed to our community-wide efforts to express our joint Mission,Vision, and Values that will provideguideposts and touchpoints for thebroader organisation as we reach out tomore people in more places and in morelanguages.

A message from our Executive Council

Image licensed CC BY 4.0 Pictured left to right, bottom - Amy Hodge, Karen Cranston,Joslynn Lee, top - Tracy Teal, Kate Hertweck, Lex Nederbragt,Raniere Silva, Juan Steyn, on screen - Elizabeth Wickes, notpictured - Mesfin Diro Chaka.

Amy HodgeChair, 2019

Elizabeth WickesChair, 2020

Grow with us.

act openly, empower one another, value allcontributions, always learning, inclusive of all,people first, access for all, communitycollaboration, strength through diversity

Our Values

The Carpentries builds global capacity in essential data andcomputational skills for conducting efficient, open, andreproducible research. We train and foster an active,inclusive, diverse community of learners and instructorsthat promotes and models the importance of software anddata in research. We collaboratively develop openly-available lessons and deliver these lessons using evidence-based teaching practices. We focus on people conductingand supporting research.

Our Mission

In partnership with our community, wearticulated our vision statement - to bethe leading inclusive community teachingdata and coding skills - along with the corevalues that define our community ethos.We established a strategic plan to guideour work in line with these values over thenext three to five years and we joined withour community to express gratitude forone another in our varied roles.

In the first half of 2020, we are focusing on hiring and onboarding new Core Teammembers to support our curriculum development, community development, andinstructor training programs. This includes working with our fiscal sponsor CommunityInitiatives to develop a sustainable and scalable approach to international contracting- enabling our Core Team to become more representative of our global community. Weare also bringing onboard our new Executive Director, who will lead our Executive Teamin guiding the strategic direction of The Carpentries. To help our community meet the challenge of COVID-19, we are establishing processesfor delivering our workshops online, while maintaining our high quality of instruction,real-time feedback, and one-on-one support for learners. In the remainder of the year, we will be developing continuing education offerings forinstructors, improving accessibility of our website and lesson template, refining ourcommunications strategy, and updating our membership model to fit organisations atdifferent stages in their development as a self-sufficient Carpentries community. It’sgoing to be quite a year!

2019 Highlights

Moving forward

We strengthened our infrastructure tobetter support our growing community,

making it easier for community members toschedule virtual meetings,

reporting learner feedback in a format more useful for

workshop instructors, and streamlining processes so

our core team can support more workshops

more efficiently.

Image by Bianca Peterson is licensed CC BY 4.0

We received funding from the ChanZuckerberg Initiative, Alfred P. SloanFoundation, Gordon and Betty MooreFoundation, California Digital Library, and Mozilla Open Source Support Program. Combined, this fundingsupports scaling of our instructor training, curriculumdevelopment, andcommunity developmentprograms, as well as our equity, inclusion, and accessibility efforts.

The theme of our inaugural global conference in2018 was “Building Locally, Connecting Globally.”

Our community has since held four regionalconferences on as many continents to continue

strengthening their local communities. Our teamof volunteer Regional Coordinators supports

the work and culture of The Carpentries in theirgeographical areas, ensuring communities can

thrive locally.

16%

We ran 554 workshops. Anincrease of 16% over the

previous year.

Since 2012, we have run 2,300 workshops in 61 countries andtrained 2,400 volunteer instructors to deliver our 33

collaboratively developed, open lessons to 56,900 novicelearners at our 85 member sites and beyond.

In 2019, we trained 684instructors an increase of

29% from 2018.

29%

of learners surveyed would recommend Carpentries workshops to a friend or colleague.83%

Fiscal year January 2019 to December 2019

Our Financials

Fiscal year January 2019 to December 2019

Our Financials

Carpentries Core Team MembersCarpentryCon Task Force Members

ChampionsCommunity Initiatives Staff

Code of Conduct Committee MembersCurriculum Advisory Committee Members

Executive Council MembersHelpers

HostsIndependent Contractors

Instructor Development Committee MembersInstructors

Instructor TrainersLearners

Library Carpentry Advisory GroupLesson Infrastructure Committee

Lesson MaintainersMember OrganisationsRegional Coordinators

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Further Together!

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Thank you and congratulations to The Carpentries community for all the impactful and inspiring ways that you contribute!