Reigniting Community: Coffee with The Carpentries Executive Director (22 April): Strategic Plan Year 4

[kariljordan]

Reigniting Community: Coffee with The Carpentries Executive Director, @kariljordan is a series of six monthly open discussions hosted by Kari from January until June 2024 under the theme of 'Reigniting Community'.

The January session focused on the staff layoffs in December, and the summary of the discussions from that session can be found in the session’s GitHub conversation issue..

The February session focused on continuing work at The Carpentries following the staff layoffs, as well as the Core Team members supporting that work. The summary of the discussions from that session can be found in the session’s GitHub conversation issue..

The March session focused on the community survey responses summarised in our recently released 2023 Carpentries Community Survey Evaluation Report. The summary of the discussions from that session can be found in the session’s GitHub conversation issue..

The next session is scheduled for 22 April at 22:00 UTC.

22 April Session Focus: The focus of this community session and accompanying GitHub conversation issue, the fourth one in the series, is to engage with the community on the outcomes of Year 4 of The Carpentries’ strategic plan and what is to come in Year 5.

This GitHub conversation issue: Kari will provide a summary of the discussions from this session in this conversation issue, including her answers to some of the questions that were raised at the session. If you missed the session and would like to pose a question or you attended it but have additional questions, please add them as comments below.

This conversation issue will remain open and Kari will actively engage with your questions and comments until we open the conversation issue for next month's Reigniting Community session, which will focus on a different topic to be announced closer to the time.

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[kariljordan]

Summary of Coffee with The Carpentries Executive Director on 22 April 2024:

The fourth coffee with @kariljordan began with a welcome, introductions, and an overview of the Code of Conduct.

@kariljordan shared a short presentation offering an overview of our strategic plan progress. We are now in year four of our strategic plan for 2020-2025.

We ended in the main room with a discussion question: Are there opportunities to collaborate with The Carpentries at your institution?

• At UCSB there are 12-15 workshops per year. It's been really valuable. We are thinking about (and have hired) someone to lead Carpentries activities to lead and help grow the community. We are also interested in being onboarded to maintain the geospatial lesson and possibly social sciences. If there are any other projects, Jose can help with developing the relationship between The Carpentries and UCSB. One of the upcoming special topics for Instructor Meetings is building capacity at your local institution.

The community is encouraged to share your feedback directly on this issue.