The Carpentries Subcommunities
A subcommunity brings together a subset of the larger Carpentries community and can be local, regional, domain-specific, or a group of community members sharing a common language or interests. We invite you to browse the subcommunities listed in this registry to identify ones you might be interested in joining. To add your subcommunity to the registry, please complete this form or email us at community@carpentries.org.
Carpentries @ VT
About us● Local Group ●
Carpentries @ VT is a community of Carpentries Instructors and Trainees connected to Virginia Tech. We organize 8-10 local workshops a year and meet monthly to support pedagogy and engagement with regional and international Carpentries communities.
Accepting new volunteers?
No
Our Activities
● Carpentry Connect ● Support Communication ● Professional Development ● Self Organised Workshops ● Mentoring ●
Contact us
- email us: ndporter@vt.edu
Carpentries Italia
About us● Regional Group ● Language Group ●
We are a small group of Italian Carpentries Instructors, many of whom are living abroad. In the last couple of years, we organized three Software Carpentry workshops in collaboration with ELIXIR. We also have our own Slack workspace and have attempted some translations.
Accepting new volunteers?
Yes
Our Activities
● Support Communication ● Self Organised Workshops ● Fundraising ● Translation ●
Contact us
- our website: https://carpentriesitalia.github.io/
- our mailing list: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/local-italia
- our contact form: https://carpentriesitalia.github.io/
Carpentries México
About us● Local Group ●
The Carpentries community has grown to about 20 instructors in Mexico. We aim to promote good programming practices by strengthening Carpentries' presence within the Spanish-speaking academic community.
Accepting new volunteers?
Yes
Our Activities
● Carpentry Connect ● Professional Development ● Self Organised Workshops ● Fundraising ● Student Programs ●
Contact us
- our mailing list: carpentries-mexico@googlegroups.com
- email us: nselem84@gmail.com
- on Slack: Carpentries workspace
Carpentries Offline
About us● Special Interest Group ●
CarpentriesOffline aims to provide a solution for Instructors to run workshops in areas where there is no or limited Internet access.
Accepting new volunteers?
Yes
Our Activities
● Self Organised Workshops ● Monthly developer meetings
Contact us
- our website: https://CarpentriesOffline.org
- on Slack: Carpentries workspace, #carpentries-offline
- our contact form: http://carpentriesoffline.org/contactus
Carpentries at Stanford University
About us● Local Group ● Regional Group ●
The Carpentries at Stanford are administered by the University Libraries. This group coordinates workshops, events, and other trainings for the needs of the university community.
Accepting new volunteers?
Yes
Our Activities
● Support Communication ● Professional Development ● Self Organised Workshops ● Student Programs ●
Contact us
- our website: https://library.stanford.edu/research/carpentries-stanford
- our mailing list: carpentry@lists.stanford.edu
Carpentries-ja
About us● Language Group ●
Carpentries-ja is a subcommunity translating the Carpentries teaching materials into Japanese and conducting workshops in Japanese.
Accepting new volunteers?
Yes
Our Activities
● Support Communication ● Self Organised Workshops ● Translation ●
Contact us
- our website: https://swcarpentry-ja.github.io/
- email us: kozo.nishida@gmail.com
- on Slack: Carpentries workspace, #local-japan
- on social media:
Carpentry @ UiO
About us● Local Group ●
We are a local community of Instructors, helpers, trainers and fans of The Carpentries. The community grew out of a couple of Instructors in 2015 and found its home at the University of Oslo Library, which became a member institution.
Accepting new volunteers?
Yes
Our Activities
● Carpentry Connect ● Support Communication ● Professional Development ● Self Organised Workshops ● Mentoring ● study group
Contact us
- our website: https://uio-carpentry.github.io/
- email us: contact-us@carpentry.uio.no
- on Slack: Carpentries workspace, #oslo-community
DACH-Region
About us● Regional Group ●
The DACH Region includes community members in the countries Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Accepting new volunteers?
Yes
Our Activities
● Support Communication ● Fundraising ●
Contact us
- our mailing list: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/local-dach
- email us: muellerr@zbmed.de
- on Slack: Carpentries workspace, #local-dach
HPC Carpentry
About us● Domain Specific Group ●
HPC Carpentry represents a global community interested in documenting and teaching better practices in cluster-based scientific computing, especially the fundamentals of interacting with a large-scale, parallel, shared computing resource.
Accepting new volunteers?
Yes
Our Activities
● Carpentry Connect ● Support Communication ● Self Organised Workshops ● developing a lesson program and curriculum
Contact us
- our website: https://www.hpc-carpentry.org
- our mailing list: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss-hpc
- email us: maintainers-hpc@lists.carpentries.org
- on Slack: Carpentries workspace, #hpc-carpentry
- our contact form: https://www.hpc-carpentry.org/contact/
- on social media:
Heidelberg Carpentries
About us● Local Group ●
The Heidelberg Carpentries subcommunity organises semi-regular, informal meetups for community members in the area. These social events are an opportunity for community members to meet and talk about teaching and other Carpentries-related topics.
Accepting new volunteers?
Yes
Our Activities
● Carpentry Connect ●
Contact us
- our mailing list: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/local-heidelberg
Midwest (US) Carpentries Community
About us● Regional Group ●
The Midwest (US) Carpentries Community is a regional subcommunity providing space to support workshop Instructors, hosts, and local institution organisers in the region to learn from one another.
Accepting new volunteers?
No
Our Activities
● Support Communication ● Professional Development ●
Contact us
- our website: https://pad.carpentries.org/local-us-midwest
- our mailing list: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/local-us-midwest
- on Slack: Carpentries workspace, #local-us-midwest
New Zealand
About us● Local Group ● Regional Group ● Domain Specific Group ● Special Interest Group ●
The New Zealand subcommunity focuses on building community relationships within the Carpentries community in Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand has several Carpentries members and is represented on the Board of Directors of the organisation as well.
Accepting new volunteers?
Yes
Our Activities
● Carpentry Connect ● Support Communication ● Professional Development ● Self Organised Workshops ● Board of Directors representation
Contact us
- on Slack: NESI workspace
PyAOS Carpentry
About us● Local Group ● Domain Specific Group ●
The Python for Atmosphere and Ocean Science (PyAOS) subcommunity focuses on running workshops for those working / studying in the weather, ocean and climate sciences. It does this through maintaining lesson materials and supporting Instructors.
Accepting new volunteers?
Yes
Our Activities
● Carpentry Connect ● Support Communication ● Self Organised Workshops ● Mentoring ●
Contact us
- our website: https://github.com/carpentries-lab/python-aos-lesson
- on social media:
Smithsonian Institution Carpentries
About us● Local Group ●
The Smithsonian Institution has been a Carpentries member organization since 2017, and a Platinum Member since 2021.
Accepting new volunteers?
No
Our Activities
● Support Communication ● Professional Development ● Self Organised Workshops ●
Contact us
- our website: https://datascience.si.edu/carpentries
- email us: carpentries@si.edu
- on Slack: Smithsonian workspace,
The Carpentries in Africa
About us● Regional Group ●
Accepting new volunteers?
Yes
Our Activities
● Carpentry Connect ● Support Communication ● Professional Development ● Mentoring ●
Contact us
- our website: https://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/regional_communities/african_task_force.html
- our mailing list: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/local-africa
- on Slack: Carpentries workspace, #local-africa
The Carpentries in Australia
About us● Regional Group ●
A subcommunity for Carpentries activity in Australia. We often link our activities with the equivalent subcommunity in New Zealand.
Accepting new volunteers?
Yes
Our Activities
● Carpentry Connect ● Support Communication ● Self Organised Workshops ● Mentoring ●
Contact us
- our website: https://carpentries.org/regions_au/
- our mailing list: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/local-aunz
- email us: admin-au@carpentries.org
UW-Madison Carpentries Community
About us● Local Group ●
This local subcommunity of workshop Instructors, helpers, and lesson developers includes research support staff from across the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, faculty members, and graduate students.
Accepting new volunteers?
No
Our Activities
● Professional Development ● Self Organised Workshops ● Mentoring ●
Contact us
- our website: https://datascience.wisc.edu/uw-madison-carpentries-community/
- our mailing list: carpentries@g-groups.wisc.edu
- email us: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
- on Slack: data-science-hubgroup workspace,
University of California Santa Barbara
About us● Local Group ●
The University of California Santa Barbara subcommunity hosts and organises data science workshops for the UCSB community. They also sponsor community members for Instructor certification.
Accepting new volunteers?
Yes
Our Activities
● Carpentry Connect ● Support Communication ● Professional Development ● Self Organised Workshops ● Mentoring ●
Contact us
- our website: https://ucsbcarpentry.github.io/
- our mailing list: https://groups.google.com/a/library.ucsb.edu/g/carpentry/about
- email us: dreamlab@library.ucsb.edu
- on Slack: ucsbcarpentry workspace