Thank you so much, Serah and the . This is a grant strep in the right direction.
In one e/Merge Africa conversation on technology use for education In Africa someone described Zoom (which e/Merge uses, but which many complain isn't bandwidth-friendly) as designed with the U.S. in mind. elMerge lead accepted right there to consider exploring another route. I at present use mobile Zoom to participate and that gives me some lease without video. Of course, you know that a mobile device has some other conferencing limitations for a participant and never can help in achieving a trainer/an instructor's objectives. In summary, a good number of us in Africa (except maybe those in South Africa; I'm in Nigeria) are having difficulty with Zoom. But a question is: Can one find an alternative that provides for The Carpentries' pedagogical model? I'm excited this question was addressed in today's con@Home session on Challenges and opportunities in transitioning meetings onlme. So much great insights gotten, and there's somewhat a concensus that trainers linstructors need to look for and use tools that accommodate participants' differences and setbacks while still allowing breakout and screen-sharing. I don't know if the Exco agrees to that. We know that inclusiveness and diversity are at The Carpentries' heart. My 100 kobo. Chris. On Wednesday, August 5, 2020, Sean Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > This might be helpful objective information as well: > > https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-and-trade-controls > > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 8:27 AM Serah Rono <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> There have been pockets of discussion within The Carpentries community >> around this subject in the last year or so, and these four events stand out >> as our 'why' for putting out a request for community input to jumpstart >> more formal conversations around this subject at this time: >> >> - While writing a communications strategy for The Carpentries in Q1 >> 2019, we heard from community members that certain tools and platforms >> that >> The Carpentries uses are inaccessible to community members in certain >> countries and regions around the world. >> - In December 2019, as our community chatted about The Carpentries >> teaching of Git and use of GitHub (see blog post >> >> <https://carpentries.org/blog/2020/05/conversations-teaching-git-github/>), >> this issue was also raised in discussions. >> - In June 2020, while preparing for 2020.carpentrycon.org, >> CarpentryCon Task Force checked in with some community members to >> determine >> what alternative platforms could be used during sessions in order to make >> the virtual conference a more inclusive experience. >> - In August 2020, Steve van Tuyl posed a question in The Carpentries' >> Slack <https://swc-slack-invite.herokuapp.com/> '*about where to find >> out what countries restrict access to what software applications/web >> applications*' and with an aim to use this to guide the organising of >> a virtual hack week with international communities participating >> >> We would like to hear from you: >> >> *what tools and platforms used by The Carpentries are inaccessible or >> unavailable to people in certain countries or regions around the world?* >> >> Please share as much detail as you can in response to this email or under >> issue 26 in The Carpentries Conversations repository >> <https://github.com/carpentries/conversations/issues/26>, with links >> where possible, and remember to mention affected countries / regions in >> your response. >> >> We hope to gather input over the next few weeks, as we work to organise >> for community discussions to deliberate, and determine a way forward. >> >> Thank you all for your time. >> >> -- >> Best, >> >> Serah Njambi Rono >> Director of Community Development and Engagement 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. >> >> > > -- > Sean Davis, MD, PhD > Center for Cancer Research > National Cancer Institute > National Institutes of Health > Bethesda, MD 20892 > https://seandavi.github.io/ > https://twitter.com/seandavis12 > *The Carpentries <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/latest>* / discuss / > see discussions <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + > participants <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + > delivery > options <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription> > Permalink > <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tc78a657d4ad07e63-M2d856721b9acd6dc0b063c87> > -- Chris Prince Udochukwu *Njọkụ*, Ph.D. Computer Communications Centre University of Nigeria, Nsukka 410001 @DrCPUNjoku We mustn't remain with old ways of doing things, especially if they're not yielding optimum results. ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tc78a657d4ad07e63-M31d22c780833faa30f7b39ec Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
