Hi all - You may have seen recent threads around sharing lesson materials for machine learning <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tec7dd5bbaf838138/machine-learning-carpentry> , teaching branching in git <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T88a5a6f29942ba00/carpentry-style-lesson-that-covers-git-branching>, and natural language processing <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T8155b8ebe88ca076/discuss-nlp-carpentry>, among others. Our community is bursting at the seams to share lesson materials - and that's a good thing!
To facilitate this sharing, we've created The Carpentries Incubator <https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/proposals/blob/master/README.md>. *The Incubator will serve as a single point of entry for lessons or ideas at any stage in the development process.* Any lesson that uses The Carpentries lesson template, follows our Code of Conduct, and is licensed either CC-BY or CC-0 can be hosted in The Carpentries Incubator. We're also working on developing a repository of high-quality, community-reviewed, discoverable lessons that we're calling The Carpentries Lab. Once this review process is up and running, reviewed lessons will be transferred to The Carpentries Lab and will be officially endorsed by The Carpentries as high quality resources. François has put together a flow-chart to help clarify the pathways that shared lesson materials can take in our community (attached). The short version? *Everything starts at The Incubator.* If you have existing materials to share, or want to propose a lesson idea, head on over to The Incubator <https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/proposals> and open an issue. The issue template <https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/proposals/blob/master/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md> has a short set of questions for you to answer. Your answers to these questions will help us to determine an appropriate next step for your lesson materials or idea. It’s a good idea to also post to our discussion forum <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> and general Slack channel <https://swc-slack-invite.herokuapp.com/> to point interested people to your Incubator issue. Thank you to everyone in the community whose enthusiasm has prompted us to continue working on making this a smoother process. We're working on updating our documentation to point to the Incubator, but it's a work in progress, so please let us know if you have questions, suggestions, or find inconsistent information. We'll get it fixed! Looking forward to seeing you in The Incubator! Best, Erin -- *Erin Becker* *Associate Director* with The Carpentries <https://carpentries.org/> Pronouns: she/her/hers Schedule a meeting with me: *https://calendly.com/ebecker-1 <https://calendly.com/ebecker-1>* ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tff7a58a2ba038c66-M6e898143b16a8774fe26482b Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
