📢 Reminder: The deadline to apply to be a Carpentries Lesson Maintainer has been extended to 17 April (midnight, anywhere on Earth). If you have been considering applying, there is still time!

Learn more in our latest blog post: carpentries.org/blog/2026/04... #TheCarpentries #OpenScience #DataSkills

Why do organisations partner with The Carpentries? To build sustainable training capacity for data and computational skills. Our global community includes: 72 countries with workshops 5,382 instructors 185 Instructor Trainers 4,950 workshops delivered

🔊 The deadline to apply to be a Carpentries Lesson Maintainer has been extended to 17 April, midnight anywhere on Earth. The Carpentries Maintainers work with the community to make sure that lessons stay up-to-date, accurate, functional and cohesive. ⏰ Apply now: carpentries.org/blog/2026/04...

Join us next week to add your contributions to Glosario, our multilingual glossary of data science terms, and help us break down language barriers in programming. 🖥️ Event: Glosario Co-Working 📆 Date: Wednesday, 15 April ⏰️️ Time: 15:00 UTC Sign up on Pretix: pretix.carpentries.org/community-ev...

We’re introducing our new Partnership program to help organisations build sustainable training capacity. Join one of our info sessions to learn more: 👉 21 April 2026: 16:30 UTC: pretix.carpentries.org/community-ev... 👉 22 April 2026: 09:00 UTC: pretix.carpentries.org/community-ev... #OpenScience

Our impact starts with people. Instructor Trainers help prepare new Carpentries Instructors using evidence-based teaching practices. Those instructors go on to teach workshops that reach hundreds of learners across the world. 🌍 That’s the multiplier effect behind our community. 🌟 Read more:

🚀 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝! Today, 2 April 2026, after many months in the making, the Partnership program officially replaces our previous Membership model. 🎉 We have updated our website and Handbook with full details, FAQs, and pricing:

Earlier this week, our Director of Workshops and Training, SherAaron Hurt, delivered a lecture and workshop as part of the Ashton Speaker Series at the University of New Mexico Libraries, and we are so pleased by how well it went! And many thanks to the Carpentries Instructors at UNM that joined! 💙

The Carpentries is calling for volunteers to onboard as Maintainers to support our lessons. For the first time, we are also onboarding Maintainers for our newest Lesson Program @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social. ⏰ Applications close on 13 April anywhere on Earth. Details: carpentries.org/blog/2026/04...

Join us next week Tuesday for a Community Session reviewing the procedures taken by the Carpentries Code of Conduct Committee when an incident is reported by the community. 🖥️ Event: Code of Conduct Violation Reporting: What Happens? 📆 Date: Tuesday, 7 April ⏰️ Time: 15:30 UTC Sign up on Pretix:

Join us for a hands-on session on how to create a website for your Carpentries workshop. You'll learn the basics of setting up and managing a workshop site, with guided support. 🖥️ Event: Creating a Workshop Website Skill-up 🛠️ 📆 Date: Thursday, 2 April ⏰️ Time: 08:30 UTC Sign up on Pretix:

This is an important conversation for anyone thinking about the future of work, education, and the evolving role of human expertise in an AI-driven world. Register and be part of the discussion shaping the future of the tech workforce: events.nationalacademies.org/46359

This session will explore how AI is reshaping technical roles, redefining core competencies, and transforming how organisations build and support their workforce. From upskilling strategies to new partnership models, the conversation will tackle what it takes to thrive in an AI-integrated world.

Registration is open to the public, and we invite the Carpentries community and broader network to join us: events.nationalacademies.org/46359

Our Executive Director @drkariljordan.carpentries.org will be speaking at the upcoming workshop convened by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 🗣️ Session Title: How AI is Influencing the Tech Workforce 🗓️ Date: Monday, 30 March 2026 ⏰ Time: 2:50–4:20 PM EST

Interested in learning more? Please use the following link to find costs, full details, and to register: instats.org/seminar/plot... We can’t wait to learn with you! 🌟

The workshop teaches the fundamentals of Python, preparing learners to: • Automate repetitive tasks to process data efficiently • Use conditionals to initiate code • Write functions to perform tasks • Create plots to recognise trends, patterns, and relationships within datasets.

We’re excited to invite you to our Software Carpentry Python: Coding for Beginners workshop in partnership with @instats.bsky.social! 📆 Dates: 22-23 April 2026 ⏰ Time: 8:00am - 12:00pm ET (UTC -4) 🖥️ Location: Zoom Our #Python workshop is for those with little or no prior experience in programming.

The Carpentries has fantastic representation at the National Society of Black Engineers Convention in Baltimore #NSBE2026. 🌟 Today, Carpentries Instructor, Sarah Brown, is teaching a Software Carpentry workshop, with Syreeta Thomas as helper. Our ED @drkariljordan.carpentries.org is also attending!

📢 Applications are open for @aspenpolicyacademy.bsky.social’s Building Nonprofit Advocacy Capacity course! This free, part-time, virtual program (May 11–15) helps nonprofits build policy advocacy plans from scratch. Apply by April 5. Details and application: aspenpolicyacademy.org/program/buil...

This week, our Executive Director @drkariljordan.carpentries.org is attending the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Annual Meeting as a representative of one of the 660 projects in attendance. Her goal is to share what The Carpentries is doing to build AI curriculum.

📢 REMINDER: Today is the last day to apply to become a Lesson Program Governor for the Data Carpentry project!

I'm gutted not to be able to join Germany's first Collaborations Workshop in Göttingen in Sep. If any other community members plan to be there and want to work on @carpentries.carpentries.org -related project(s), let me know how we can support you! events.hifis.net/event/3249/o...

A busy week for our Director of Curriculum @tobyhodges.carpentries.org, who attended the #deRSE26 conference at the University of Stuttgart! He presented a talk on the developments around the AI Carpentry project, and also co-led two @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social-related sessions. Thank you, Toby! 🙏💙

If you are a @carpentries.carpentries.org community member based in Germany and you want to apply for this, please let me know how I can support you! www.sovereign.tech/news/2026-fe...

Join us next week for Lesson Developer Community Meetings! 🌟 These are sessions for lesson developers in The Carpentries community to meet, share experiences, ask questions related to lesson development, and explore opportunities for collaboration. 📆 Date: Weds, 11 March ⏰️ Time: 10:00 + 22:00 UTC

🔊 We recently released updates on AMY, our community data management software, and are calling on our community members with a profile on AMY to please take a few minutes to update your airport location (now a required field) and any other information on your profile: carpentries.org/blog/2026/03...

This week, 2 - 6 March 2026, is international Open Education Week! @oeglobal.bsky.social #OEWeek26 Teachers, learners, advocates, and professionals across the world are celebrating the benefits of open educational resources and practices. Join & participate in the celebrations: oeweek.oeglobal.org

Last week two members of The Carpentries Core Team, Associate Director @erinstellabecker.bsky.social and Communications Manager @oscarsibabalwe.bsky.social, attended @rainbowr.org conference, and had so much fun being there! 🌈 To join in the activities this community: conference.rainbowr.org/after

We are so happy to announce the BIG and EXCITING news that on 5 February 2026 our Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve the adoption of @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social as an official lesson program of The Carpentries, launching on 1 September 2026! carpentries.org/blog/2026/02... 🚀

HPC Carpentry @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social will become the latest Lesson Program of The Carpentries @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social in September 2026 🎉 They join our existing lesson programs: Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry, and Software Carpentry. carpentries.org/blog/2026/02...

In January last year, we announced that The Carpentries would sunset support for our previous lesson infrastructure, 𝘴𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦𝘴, at the end of last year. Our latest blog post reports and reflects on the progress made migrating lessons from 𝘴𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦𝘴 to the Workbench: carpentries.org/blog/2026/02...

Congratulations 👏 to the organisers for the resounding success of the inaugural event, and we thank them once again for this donation to The Carpentries. 🙏 We are very excited for the summit's continued growth from strength to strength, and can't wait to support its future iterations.

To underscore the magnitude of this donation, we also bring attention to our Gratitude of the Month in our January 2026 newsletter. In it, we thanked our community for their contributions in helping us raise just over $6,000 in donations in 2025, an amount more than the prior two years combined! 🎉

We are so grateful for the generosity of the volunteer organisers of the Winter Analytics Summit for choosing The Carpentries as their charity of choice to donate to $3,300 worth of the summit's registration proceeds. 🙌 The summit was held on 20 - 22 February 2026.

Running a workshop in times of the war: report about the first @carpentries.carpentries.org workshop in Ukraine olexandr-konovalov.github.io/posts/2026/0...

🔊 The Carpentries is calling for volunteers from the Data Carpentry community to become Lesson Program Governors (LPGCs) for the project. ⏰ Applications close by the end of Tuesday 10th March 2026 (anywhere on Earth). Find out more about and details on how to apply: carpentries.org/blog/2026/02...

Join us for a hands-on session on how to create a website for your Carpentries workshop. 🖥️ Event: Creating a Workshop Website Skill-up 🛠️ 📆 Date: Tues, 3 March ⏰️ Time: 09:30 UTC You will learn the basics of setting up and managing a workshop site, with guided support throughout. Sign up on Pretix:

🔊 Next week we will host a community session for lesson developers to report on their experience teaching a new lesson in a pilot workshop, or to ask questions in preparation for an upcoming pilot. 💻 Event: Pilot Workshop Debrief 📅 Date: Monday, 2 March ⏰ Time: 10:00 UTC Sign up on Pretix:

Today, 19 February at 11:59 PM EST, is the last chance to register for the Winter Analytics Summit. The summit will donate a significant portion of the registration proceeds to The Carpentries. The summit starts tomorrow, 20 February, until 22 February. More details: winteranalyticssummit.com

.. relationships with our community. This post summarises the main themes that emerged - carpentries.org/blog/2026/02...

📣 On 1st Feb 2025, The Carpentries completed its transition from a fiscally sponsored organisation to an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Over the past year, the Executive Team undertook a formal evaluation to understand how this shift has affected our mission delivery, governance, finances, and

It's been one year since @carpentries.carpentries.org transition to independent non-profit organization. Here's what we learned: carpentries.org/blog/2026/02...

Join us for a fun and informal Carpentries networking session! This session is designed to connect with community members from around the world in a relaxed, welcoming environment. 📆 UTC Time: 25 February 2026 15:00 📝 Sign up on Pretix (pretix.carpentries.org/community-ev... ).

⌛ All lessons are designed for 1.5 to 4 hours of instruction, and cover a range of topics, including: 👉 technical workflows and infrastructure 👉 open research methods 👉 scholarly communication and discovery, and 👉 lessons on community building and advocacy strategies.

📢 The Library Carpentry Curriculum Advisory Committee is calling for instructors to run pilot workshops for 14 lessons currently in Alpha status. To move them toward Beta and then adoption as Library Carpentry lessons, they need the Carpentries community to test the lessons in real-world settings. 🙏

Finally, a reminder that The Carpentries has resources that local and regional subcommunities can rely on to organise their CarpentryConnect events: bsky.app/profile/carp... #CarpentriesResources