Welcome to our Newest Lesson Maintainers!

We are pleased to announce that our most recent cohort of Lesson Maintainers have completed onboarding and are ready to support lessons across The Carpentries curricula. Thirty new Maintainers participated in the three hour onboarding, with the following goals:

• Orientation to The Carpentries goals and vision for lesson maintenance.
• Getting connected with other Maintainers and the overall Maintainer community.
• Developing skills for creating a positive environment for all contributors.
• Becoming familiar with the key components of the lesson template.
• Practicing core technical skills for lesson maintenance.
• Learning how and when to elevate issues to the Curriculum Advisory Committee.

We are excited to welcome these new members to the Maintainer community and look forward to working with them, and continuing to work with our many committed continuing Maintainers, over the coming months. If you are interested in becoming a Maintainer in the future, stay tuned for announcements of our yearly Maintainer Onboarding sessions.

Our new Maintainers are:

For Data Carpentry - Foundations of Astronomical Data Science

• David DeMuth
• Ralf Kotulla

For Data Carpentry - Ecology

• Agustina Pesce
• Irene Ramos Pérez
• Juan Ugalde
• Sarah Pohl
• Sathya Pandalai

For Data Carpentry - Genomics

• Anuj Guruacharya
• Jake Szamosi
• Karega Pauline
• Saba Ferdous

For Data Carpentry - Geospatial

• Aditya Ranganath
• Girmaye Misgna
• Mike Mahoney

For Data Carpentry - Social Science

• Eirini Zormpa
• Jesse Sadler

For Library Carpentry

• Barulaganye Hulela
• Jennifer Stubbs
• Jesse Johnston
• Rayvn Manuel

For Software Carpentry

• Alex Pakalniskis
• Benson Muite
• Indraneel Chakraborty
• Jean-Paul Courneya
• Mariana Patricia Gomez Nicolas
• Matthieu Bruneaux
• Scott Gruber
• Sehrish Kanwal
• Toan Phung

For The Carpentries Instructor Training

• Nathaniel Porter

An enormous thank you is also due to Vini Salazar, The Carpentries Maintainer Community Lead, and Zhian Kamvar, who both co-lead the onboarding sessions.