Two Onboarding Sessions for new instructors and helpers were held on Sep 2, 2019
A Call for Helpers was sent to former workshop participants; new helpers and instructors were recruited (see Recruiting)
Coordination with the newly appointed Regional Coordinator for the Nordic and Baltic Countries, Naoe Tatara, was established, with Oslo becoming a CodeRefinery and Carpentries Hub.
Carpentry workshops at UiO are now more visible on Carpentries.org, for both upcoming and past workshops.
Better communication with the Carpentry central by monthly meetings.
Record of instructors for non-standard Carpentry workshops for better acknowledgement of their works.
End-of-the-Year Social Get-Together for the community on Dec 12, 2019
The Carpentry@UiO community has taken initiative for a StudyGroup in 2018. The aim was to create a forum for instructors, helpers, and other interested parties to meet and share expertise, information, and experience related to teaching workshops. Since then, the StudyGroup has served as a forum for knowledge exchange and social interaction with meetings ca. every other week.
Topics that were covered incl.:
NetworkX, pytest, folium, ipyleaflet, Voilá (Python packages and applications)
Deep Learning with R
Social Coding and Open Software
Open Science Framework
National Data Archives
Instructor Development
Book Club (Teaching Tech Together, Good Enough Practices in Scientific Computing)
Documentation of all events and materials are publishied on the website of the StudyGroup
Activities are announced via the @swcarpentry mailing lists, the official website, a Google calendar, and the University Library’s course catalogue, and Gitter
2019 has been a record year in terms of recruitment and instructor trainees. In May 2019, an online Instructor Training event was held with 12 members of the Carpentry@UiO community participating. All participants were followed up by a local Instructor Trainer, their contacts were added to the organizers mailinglist for communications about upcoming workshops and community news
10 new helpers
12 new instructors (official training)
1 new instructor (not trained yet)
Results of the Instructor Status Survey. It is planned to re-run the survey in September 2020. Instructors who answered the survey will be followed up.
2 Instructor Development sessions were held with under supervision of an Instructor Trainer
Teaching single lessons - instead of the full two-day curriculum - from the Carpentries official materials is now sufficient to renew the Instructor Certificate annually
The first Data Carpentry for Social Sciences and Humanities two-day workshop will be taught in April 2020 at UiO
It is planned to host the next CarpentryConnect event in Oslo in 2021; preparations will start in 2020