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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, along with our many committed continuing Maintainers, over the coming months.

Our new Maintainers are:

For Data Carpentry - Astronomy

  • Michel M. Nzikou

For Data Carpentry - Ecology

  • Lilian Huang
  • Carolyn Koehn
  • Julieta Millan
  • Teofil Nakov
  • Guppy Stott
  • Elizabeth Stregger

For Data Carpentry - Genomics

  • Nil Mu
  • Chandra Sarkar
  • Katherine Taylor

For Data Carpentry - Geospatial Data

  • Cooper Kimball-Rhines

For Data Carpentry - Image Processing

  • Marco Dalla Vecchia

For Data Carpentry - Social Science

  • Allie Tatarian

For Instructor Training

  • Karen Cranston

For Library Carpentry

  • Alex Ball
  • Nicky Garland
  • Kyla Jemison
  • Rafia Mirza
  • Senn Oon
  • Kendra Oudyk
  • Gandhimathi Padmanaban
  • Shelby Watson

For Software Carpentry

  • Thomas Cason
  • Craig Gross
  • Junaid Mir
  • Novica Nakov
  • Pariksheet Nanda
  • Katie O’Mahony
  • Kellie Templeman
  • Ahmed Unshur

We would also like to thank the following continuing Maintainers for taking on responsibility for an additional lesson, beyond their existing Maintainer duties:

  • Hugo Gruson
  • Aziz Khan
  • Jose Nino Muriel

An enormous thank you is due to Nathaniel Porter, The Carpentries Maintainer Community Lead, who engaged in extensive planning and co-led each of the three sessions.