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Subcommunity Registry

The registry is designed to:

  • Highlight subcommunities and their activities to increase visibility.
  • Connect members with subcommunities that align with their interests and offer engagement opportunities.
  • Support recruitment efforts by helping subcommunities attract new members.

How to Register Your Subcommunity

A registration form is available for subcommunities to provide information about their ongoing activities, websites, and communication channels. If you’re unsure whether your subcommunity should register or have questions, please email the Community Engagement Team.

Regional Subcommunities

The subcommunities listed in this section are those whose focus is Carpentries activities at a specified large geographical - regional, national, provincial or district - area.

Carpentries Italia

We are a small group of Italian Carpentries Instructors, many of whom are living abroad. In the last couple of years, we organised three Software Carpentry workshops in collaboration with ELIXIR. We also have our own Slack workspace and have attempted some translations.

Activities: Communication / Self-Organised Workshops / Fundraising / Translation /
The Carpentries in Australia

A subcommunity for Carpentries activity in Australia. We often link our activities with the equivalent subcommunity in New Zealand/Aotearoa.

Activities: Carpentry Connect / Communication / Self-Organised Workshops / Mentoring /
New Zealand/Aotearoa

The New Zealand/Aotearoa subcommunity focuses on building community relationships within the Carpentries community in New Zealand/Aotearoa. New Zealand/Aotearoa has several Carpentries members and is represented on the Board of Directors of the organisation as well.

Activities: Carpentry Connect / Communication / Professional Development / Self-Organised Workshops /
Connect: Slack: NESI workspace /
Midwest (US) Carpentries Community

This local subcommunity of workshop Instructors, Instructor Trainers, Helpers, and Lesson Developers includes faculty, librarians, researchers, research support staff, and students from across the United States Midwest.

Activities: Communication / Professional Development /
Connect: Website / Email: akkis@ou.edu / sarah.stevens@wisc.edu / Slack: Carpentries workspace, #local-us-midwest / Mailing list / Contact person: Amanda Kis and Sarah Stevens
The Carpentries in Africa

Activities: Carpentry Connect / Communication / Professional Development / Mentoring /
Connect: Website / Slack: Carpentries workspace, #local-africa / Mailing list /
DACH-Region

The DACH Region includes community members in the countries Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Activities: Communication / Fundraising /
Connect: Email: muellerr@zbmed.de / Slack: Carpentries workspace, #local-dach / Mailing list /
Carpentries México

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.

Activities: Carpentry Connect / Professional Development / Self-Organised Workshops / Fundraising / Student Programs /
Connect: Email: nselem84@gmail.com / Slack: Carpentries workspace / Mailing list / Contact person: Nelly Sélem
Carpentries US-Northeast

The US-Northeast Carpentries subcommunity convenes for semi-regular, informal get-togethers and mentoring opportunities.

Activities: Carpentry Connect / Communication / Self-Organised Workshops / Mentoring /
Connect: Email: nrrome@berklee.edu / Slack: Carpentries workspace, #local-us-northeast / Contact person: Rachel Rome
Carpentries-Israel

Carpentries-Israel began in 2024 with a Data Carpentry workshop in collaboration with ELIXIR and US-RSE that included learners from 8 Israeli research institutions. Carpentries-Israel aims to grow a local community of Carpentries instructors in order to meet the high level of interest for more Carpentries workshops hosted in Israel.

Activities: Communication / Professional Development / Self-Organised Workshops / Mentoring /
Connect: Website / Slack: carpentries-israel workspace / Contact form / /
UK Carpentries Community

The UK Carpentries Community is a supportive and inclusive space for Instructors, helpers, and workshop coordinators involved in teaching technical skills to researchers. It facilitates collaboration, knowledge sharing, and networking while assisting with workshop organisation, technical queries, and institutional membership.

Activities: Carpentry Connect / Communication / Self-Organised Workshops /
Connect: Website / Email: a.nenadic@software.ac.uk / Slack: Carpentries workspace, #local-uk / Mailing list / Contact person: Aleksandra Nenadic

Local Subcommunities

The subcommunities listed in this section are those whose focus is Carpentries activities at a specified local and institutional level - town, city, at a university or research institution.

Carpentries at Stanford University

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.

Activities: Communication / Professional Development / Self-Organised Workshops / Student Programs /
Connect: Website / Mailing list /
UW-Madison Carpentries Community

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.

Activities: Professional Development / Self-Organised Workshops / Mentoring /
Connect: Website / Email: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu / Slack: data-science-hubgroup workspace, #uw_carpentries / Mailing list /
Smithsonian Institution Carpentries

The Smithsonian Institution has been a Carpentries Member Organisation since 2017, and a Platinum Member since 2021.

Activities: Communication / Professional Development / Self-Organised Workshops /
Connect: Website / Email: carpentries@si.edu / Slack: Smithsonian workspace, #carpentries-alumni /
Heidelberg Carpentries

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.

Activities: Carpentry Connect /
Connect: Mailing list /
University of California Santa Barbara

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.

Activities: Carpentry Connect / Communication / Professional Development / Self-Organised Workshops / Mentoring /
Connect: Website / Email: dreamlab@library.ucsb.edu / Slack: ucsbcarpentry workspace / Mailing list /
Carpentry @ UiO

We are a local community of Instructors, helpers, Instructor 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.

Activities: Carpentry Connect / Communication / Professional Development / Self-Organised Workshops / Mentoring /
Connect: Website / Email: contact-us@carpentry.uio.no / Slack: Carpentries workspace, #oslo-community /
Carpentries @ VT

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.

Activities: Carpentry Connect / Communication / Professional Development / Self-Organised Workshops / Mentoring /
Connect: Email: ndporter@vt.edu /

Special Interest Groups

The subcommunities listed in this section are those whose focus is Carpentries activities around a specific area of interest to The Carpentries community, whether this activity is conducted at a local, regional or global level.

PyAOS Carpentry

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.

Activities: Carpentry Connect / Communication / Self-Organised Workshops / Mentoring /
Connect: Website /
Carpentries Offline

CarpentriesOffline aims to provide a solution for Instructors to run workshops in areas where there is no or limited Internet access.

Activities: Self-Organised Workshops /
Connect: Website / Slack: Carpentries workspace, #carpentries-offline / Contact form /
HPC Carpentry

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.

Activities: Carpentry Connect / Communication / Self-Organised Workshops /
Connect: Website / Email: maintainers-hpc@lists.carpentries.org / Slack: Carpentries workspace, #hpc-carpentry / Mailing list / Contact form / /
Carpentries-ja

Carpentries-ja is a subcommunity translating the Carpentries teaching materials into Japanese and conducting workshops in Japanese.

Activities: Communication / Self-Organised Workshops / Translation /
Connect: Website / Email: kozo.nishida@gmail.com / Slack: Carpentries workspace, #local-japan / /
Carpentries Ukraine

Ukrainian Carpentries is a subcommunity translating the Carpentries teaching materials into Ukrainian language.

Activities: Communication / Self-Organised Workshops / Translation /
Connect: Email: obk1@st-andrews.ac.uk / Slack: Carpentries workspace, #local-ukrainian / Contact person: Olexandr Konovalov

Regional Communities Mailing Lists

All mailing lists for The Carpentries are hosted on Topicbox. This includes a number of mailing lists specific to local or regional communities.

Africa

Asia

Australia/New Zealand

Canada

Europe

Latin America

United States