Hi all, Shared values and goals have long been the starting point of communities of practice as they identify changes they want to see and start working together towards these changes. The Carpentries started out with a clear goal - *teaching foundational computational skills to researchers worldwide*. Something that is also important and unique about our community is how we work and engage with each other. As a community, values are important to us and we consider that we have a set of shared values. However, we have not yet articulated what these values are.
The Carpentries Executive Council <https://carpentries.org/governance> did some preliminary work on this at their in-person meeting in 2018, and The Carpentries team <https://carpentries.org/team/> has also done some initial exercises in this regard. To be truly reflective of the community however, we believe that it is important for community involvement to be an integral part of creating these value statements. We would love to hear from you, our community, and we intend to use this information to inform and create a beta draft of a set of value statements for The Carpentries. *Help us articulate The Carpentries Values by answering these two questions:* 1. Envision people you think of as representative of The Carpentries community. What words would you use to describe these people? (No need to identify them, briefly outline their characteristics.) 2. The workshops we run, calls we hold, interactions we have on various platforms, and guidelines we use to uphold these interactions are but a few things that make us who we are as a community. With this in mind, in 2-3 sentences, how would you describe The Carpentries community culture? Please answer these two questions in any of the three ways: * respond to this discuss thread on TopicBox, * leave comments directly under this issue <https://github.com/carpentries/conversations/issues/21> in The Carpentries Conversations repository, * or fill out this Google form <https://forms.gle/gZmafyLVKAHBqfgc6> anonymously. Thank you all for your time. -- Best, Serah Njambi Rono Community Engagement Lead at The Carpentries <https://carpentries.org/> Twitter: @serahrono <https://twitter.com/serahrono> Pronouns: She/her/hers Schedule a meeting with me: https://calendly.com/serahrono The Carpentries <https://carpentries.org/> *- **We teach foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide.* carpentries.org | Twitter <http://twitter.com/thecarpentries> | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/carpentries/> | Blog <https://carpentries.org/blog/> The Carpentries is a fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives <http://communityin.org/>, a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organisation based in California, USA. We are a global community teaching foundational computational and data science skills to researchers in academia, industry and government. ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T9029fc4692993ab1-M01da25a799f031a31f6f6aeb Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
