Hi everyone, I published a blog post last week, titled Supporting the Curriculum Development Community in 2024 <https://carpentries.org/blog/2024/02/support-curriculum-community-2024/>. I recommend reading it if you are interested in learning about how changes to the capacity of the team will impact the community’s lessons and the infrastructure that supports them, and/or how you can get involved.
I would like to highlight one really important part of the blog post, which is also an exciting opportunity for any community members who would like to promote the development of high quality, open source lessons: we are calling for volunteers to take on the role of Editor for open peer review of lessons in The Carpentries Lab. The Lab <https://github.com/carpentries-lab/reviews/> has been on a bit of a slow burn, but we are really starting to see the platform making an impact. For example, the Metagenomics curriculum <https://carpentries-lab.github.io/metagenomics-workshop/> that was our first accepted submission last year was recently published in The Journal of Open Source Education <https://jose.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/jose.00209>. I am looking forward to working with community members to help build on this momentum and keep reviews moving. I am pasting the relevant section of the post below, for more information. Please send me an email <mailto:[email protected]> if you are interested in taking up this role. I would also be delighted to answer any questions you have about the Lab and the role of Editor. You can respond here, or contact me directly on Slack, by email <mailto:[email protected]>, or by scheduling a call with me <https://calendly.com/tobyhodges/>. Finally, a brief note of gratitude to the Maintainer community before I sign off, for the phenomenal response we received this month to the annual opt-in survey — thank you to everyone who filled that in, and especially to Nathaniel Porter, our Maintainer Community Lead, for leading the process! All the best, Toby — Become an Editor for The Carpentries Lab Lesson reviews in The Carpentries Lab are publicly visible issue threads on the Reviews repository <https://github.com/carpentries-lab/reviews/issues>. Editors manage the review process, performing basic checks to determine whether submitted lessons are appropriate for the Lab and ready for review, finding and assigning reviewers, and ensuring the integrity of the review process. Becoming an Editor for the Lab is a fantastic way to support lesson development in The Carpentries community, expand your network, and gain experience with Open Source and peer-review practices. Community members acting as Editors for the Lab would benefit from prior experience in any/all of the following: the academic peer review process managing projects on GitHub curriculum design web accessibility Editors from the community will be supported by The Carpentries Curriculum Team. We already provide a guide for Editors <https://github.com/carpentries-lab/reviews/blob/main/docs/editor_guide.md>, which will be expanded further, and the Curriculum Team will be available for direct support, e.g. to help contact potential reviewers, to troubleshoot issues, and to answer questions. We will also schedule dedicated onboarding sessions for community members taking on the role. If you are interested in becoming an Editor, please send me an email <mailto:[email protected]>. --- -- Dr Toby Hodges (he/him) Director of Curriculum The Carpentries | https://carpentries.org Schedule a meeting with me: https://calendly.com/tobyhodges ------------------------------------------ This list is for the purpose of general discussion about The Carpentries including community activities, upcoming events, and announcements. Some other lists you may also be interested in include discuss-hpc, discuss-r, and our local groups. Visit https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/ to learn more. All activity on this and other Carpentries spaces should abide by The Carpentries Code of Conduct found here: https://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/policies/code-of-conduct.html The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T2a3af3cfeec56551-Mbbc92a2ee5ac6e435f656dca Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
