You want to hire me because I understand that #FOSS is not just code, it's also community.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, I worked to completely redesign @thecarpentries lesson infrastructure from the ground up to make it easier to use for our volunteer community of Maintainers and Instructors. This resulted in The #CarpentriesWorkbench: https://carpentries.github.io/workbench

Here's what the community has had to say: https://carpentries.org/blog/2023/08/celebrating-carpentries-workbench/

#GetFediHired

2/

The Carpentries Workbench

Does anyone know how you are supposed to create slides with The Carpentries?

The Carpentries Workbench spits out documents that aren't well suited to actually presenting. I was kind of hoping it could work like Quarto and output a content PDF and also a slideshow, but it doesn't seem to. The alternative of making a separate slideshow in addition to your Workbench project seems a bit redundant.

#Carpentries #CarpentriesWorkbench

Trying to help a colleague with technical issues with her #carpentries lesson. Can't get over the fact that the #carpentriesworkbench is implemented in #R. It's maybe a nice data analysis language, but a horrible + esoteric #programming language. Even installing it is painful. If it was literally anything else, I might be motivated + able to contribute. I don't get why build a static site generator ("sandpaper") from scratch when there are already dozens solid choices? Not convinced by the FAQ.

I am so #grateful to be working with a community that is full of supportive and caring leaders. This year has been a tough one for me, but seeing these testimonials reminds me that my work with the #CarpentriesWorkbench is valued in more ways than I can imagine.

Thank you to Jennifer, Eric, @malvikasharan, @fmic_, Charlotte, and @lgatto and for taking the time to write these and to the entire community for your patience and feedback through the process   

https://carpentries.org/blog/2023/08/celebrating-carpentries-workbench/

Celebrating The Carpentries Workbench

Reflections from the community on our new lesson infrastructure

The Carpentries

I finally carved out some time to sit down and finished what I promised
@steffilazerte almost 15 months ago.

I wrote about how I use the r-universe (by @rOpenSci) to not only deploy The #CarpentriesWorkbench packages, but also stable versions and bugfixes _for its depenendencies_.

https://zkamvar.netlify.app/blog/r-universe-and-cran/

#RStats

REMINDER: All lessons will be transitioning to the #CarpentriesWorkbench this week. Check out the schedule: https://carpentries.github.io/workbench/transition-schedule.html
The Carpentries Workbench - Workbench Transition Schedule

A note for those who created a #CarpentriesWorkbench lesson that uses #RStats and the #tidyverse before June 2022: if your lesson is now failing to build, you will need to run `sandpaper::pin_version("[email protected]")` to get the build running again.

After that, I would recommend to create a new branch and run `sandpaper::update_cache()` to update your package cache so that you get the most recent versions of the required packages and preview the differences in a pull request

The #CarpentriesWorkbench introduces inline Instructor Notes to our lessons. Previously confined to a single page accompanying the lesson, guidance for Instructors can now be placed where it is most relevant and visible while teaching.
The #CarpentriesWorkbench provides separate views of a lesson for Instructors and learners. Display and hide guidance for Instructors and switch the resources provided in the top bar at the touch of a button.
Did you know the #CarpentriesWorkbench raises #accessibility of @thecarpentries lessons to the next level? The new layout ensures lesson sites meet or exceed the WCAG AA+ standard, and automated checks empower authors to create more accessible content, like adding alt text to images. #a11y