Welcome to the CarpentryCon @ Home Proposal Repository! 🌸
This repository provides a location to add all proposals for CarpentryCon @ Home as GiHub issues. Please note that The Carpentries Code of Conduct applies both to this event and the current repository.
We can’t meet in person for CarpentryCon 2020, so we’re bringing CarpentryCon to you! CarpentryCon @ Home is an online series of events happening in July and August, sharing some of the great content that was planned for CarpentryCon 2020 in Madison, WI including keynotes, breakouts, lightning talks, and socialising.
In this repo, we invite you to add your proposal of a session, details for which is provided below.
Here are the steps for submitting a proposal:
- Click the New Proposal issue template tab in this repository
- You should see a selection of issue templates - choose the "New Proposal" option and click the "Get Started" button.
- Fill the template with your reponses and proposal.
- Since this is a public repository, it will be open for anyone to see and comment on. Therefore, you can use your pseudonym if you prefer. Adding email here is optional, but please add other ways to contact you (for e.g. The Carpentries Slack channel, or your Twitter account).
We have listed a few ideas of session types that include breakout discussion, skill-up, social event, informal meetup, panel session, resource development sprint or other. We encourage designing a proposal that invites and welcomes participation from a diverse community of learner, educators, instructors, maintainers, researchers, developers, artists, and other stakeholders online.
Because we would like to make sessions available for those who cannot attend, please indicate if there is the possibility to record a video from the session and/or create a blog post summary.
See the definition of each event below:
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Breakout discussion: These sessions are 1.5 hours long and conducted in a round table or general discussion format. They will play a crucial role in connecting the participants based on their common interests and stimulate discussion on the relevant topics. A few examples of the breakout sessions from CarpentryCon Dublin 2018: Chasing Funding for Workshops and The Carpentries Membership, How Can We Develop New Curricula and Contribute to Existing Lessons, Incubating a New Carpentry, Mentoring, etc.
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Skill-up workshops: A workshop is a way for you to pass on your ideas and expertise to other participants in a 1.5 - 2 hours long session. You can reach out to a larger numbers of people by conducting a workshop on the topic that you find important and facilitate a positive learning environment for the attendees. It can also be a training workshop that will allow participants to develop new skills. A few examples of the workshops from the CarpentryCon 2018 are: Ally workshop, Bring and Build Your Own Lesson 'Carpentries-style', Next Steps in R, Library Carpentry On-Boarding, Project Leadership, Speaking Effectively, Contributing on GitHub, Leading a Research Lab, Shell Tips and Tricks, etc.
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Panel session: A panel discussions will be 1-1.5 hour long live discussions about a specific topic amongst a selected group of panelists who share differing perspectives. The proposal author or suggested lead will moderate and guides the panel and the audience through the event. Panelists are ideally 3-4 experts in the field, who will shares ideas, evidences/studies, and opinions, and address questions from the audience either curated by the moderator or asked by the attendees.
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Social event and informal meetups: These could be 1-2 hour long social calls to network with the community members over certain theme or format. For example, themed pub quiz, informal discussions on community, data science, teaching, creative writing, knitting, cross stitching, yoga, meditation, self care, virtual museum tour, storytelling etc.
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Lesson or resource development sprint: This can be 1 day - 1 month long collaborative effort to develop lesson to resources relevant to The Carpentries community.
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Lightning Talks: A 5 minute presentation for community members to present information that aligns with our themes. The talks will be broken down into 3 minutes for presentation and 2 minutes for Q&A. Additional conversations will take place on the #carpentrycon slack channel.
Below you will find the days/time Lightning Talks will take place. Please be sure to indicate which session you would like to participate in.
- 0300 UTC, Tuesday July 21
- 1000 UTC, Wednesday July 29
- 1300 UTC, Thursday August 6
- 1700 UTC, Tuesday August 11
- 1800 UTC, Wednesday August 19
- 2000 UTC, Thursday August 27
- Other: If none of these sessions fits your idea, please use the "other" option.
Here is an example of the issue template:
When a comment starts with "<" followed by "!--" and ends with "-->", it will not appear in the final issue.
The different text fields start with "###", which can be filled by replacing "WRITE HERE".
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Please complete the following sections when you open a new proposal issue.
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## Title of the session: WRITE HERE
<!-- Please provide a short title of your proposal capturing what your target audience would expect in this session.
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### Session details
* Session type: WRITE HERE
<!-- Choose from these options: Breakout discussion, skill-up, social event, informal meetup, panel, lesson or resource development sprint or other -->
* Keywords: WRITE HERE
<!--Please provide 3-5 keywords to help your expected target audience to decide the relevance of this session-->
* Permission to record this session: WRITE HERE
<!-- Please asnwer in 'Yes' or 'No', Since this session will be possibly taking place in a time zone that is not compatible for everyone, we would liek to record the presentation/introduction and conclusion/final wrap up part of your session through Zoom recording option.-->
### Abstract
<!-- Please provide a short abstract of no more than 250 words - give some background, format of the session, learning/expected outcome, target audience, and possible future directions."-->
* WRITE HERE
### Personal details
* Name or pseudoname of the session lead: WRITE HERE
* Co-leads' names (we recommend involving 2 helpers/co-leads): WRITE HERE
* Email or other ways to contact the session leads/co-leads: WRITE HERE
* Country of residence and/or compatible Time Zones (provide options): WRITE HERE
* Would you like to present this multiple times, in other time zones: WRITE HERE
<!-- please suggest suitable time zones -->
* Would you like to volunteer to be listed as a wrangler/host for your time zone
<!-- Respond in "Yes", "No", "Contact me with more details". Wraglers/hosts will coordinate 1-2 other sessions by coordinating with their session leads before their session to make sure that their slides or other required materials work. During the session they will introduce the session lead and other facilitators, share the link of the notes with the attendees, introduce the Code of Conduct and participation guideline, and with the permission of the attendees record the presentation parts of the session.-->
* Other comments: WRITE HERE
Here are relative time zones that you can use if you don't want to provide your exact time zone or country for privacy reasons.
- Oceania / North America / Antarctica for UTC−12:00 - UTC−07:00
- North and South America / Antarctica for UTC−06:00 - UTC−01:00
- Europe / Africa / Asia / Antarctica for UTC±00:00 - UTC+05:45
- Asia / Antarctica for UTC+06:00 - UTC+11:30
- Asia / Oceania / Antarctica for UTC+12:00 - UTC+14:00
We use issue labels to help indicate and categorize the session proposals' types, intended tiezones and status.
We will label your issue with the label describing the type of the session you are proposing.
The status will progress through the following labels:
Each session will also be labelled with the preferred time zone range(s).
This event can happen only with your help. Therefore, we invite you to become a regional host/wrangler in your time zone to help ensure that the proposed sessions can happen as scheduled during the event.
The regional hosts will serve as the main hosts or co-host for different sessions.
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They will be the point of contacts for sessions leads.
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They will coordinate with the session leads before their session to make sure that their slides or other required materials are ready for the event.
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Based on their availability, they will be assigned 1 or 2, 1.5 hour long or shorter sessions as the main host.
- As a main host, they will manage Zoom to run the session, record talks, and use breakout rooms.
- They will introduce the session lead, helpers and co-host/CoC facilitators.
- They will share the link of the shared notes with the attendees, introduce the Code of Conduct (CoC) facilitators and participation guideline, and, with the permission of the attendees, record the presentation parts of the session.
- Before the conference they will be onboarded and provided details on their roles.
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For another session that they are not a main-host for, they will be designated as the co-host/CoC facilitators.
- They will provide teachnical support to the main host if needed
- They will be present as a CoC contact for the session participants
- Before the conference they will be onboarded and provided details on their roles.
Note: The onboarding call has already taken place. Please see this document for detail.
I am in! Where to sign up?
The signing up to volunteer is now possible by emailing the taskforce.
- To identify a host in your regions, please see this public sheet for volunteers.