If you are comfortable to post information about cultural sensitivities in your region which visiting instructors should be aware of, please post it here. Alternatively you can email Kari Jordan at [email protected] or Serah Rono at [email protected]. The information will be synthesised and made available to the broader community.

This issue is a note to myself that we should add information to this repository about how we have been (and how we plan to continue to) increasing our geographical reach to serve communities outside of the US/Canada/Australia/UK group.

This information can include:

• metrics about our geographic reach and representation for learners, instructor trainees, instructors, Trainers, Maintainers and other segments of our community,
• documentation of strategies that we have used that have been successful in increasing geographical reach,
• longer term plans for reaching other geographical communities we aren't currently targeting (e.g. Asia).

I think making equity and inclusion a central part of the Carpentries mission (as described in the roadmap) is great! By offering workshops broadly, and especially targeting groups that normally wouldn't have access to learning these skills, I think we can go a long way towards achieving the goal of increasing diversity in research computing. But I've noticed there's a lack of actual lesson content addressing these topics, either official or community-developed. While this may seem unrelated to learning technical skills, a better understanding of the challenges facing those with less privilege, and specifically how we can address this with code, could also directly contribute to the mission.

I don't have any concrete ideas of what this would look like, but I find the Jargon Busting episode of the LC overview lesson to be a potential model. Maybe we could think about a "bias busting" type of episode, and how we can use code to avoid bias, instead of propagating it. (For example, how to code gender... a factor with two levels may not be the best idea). This is especially relevant in the field of AI, where it is increasingly apparent that bias in code is a huge problem.

Curious to hear what others think!

Hi! I noticed that the learner data used to generate the figures aren't available. I was wondering if there are plans to make these available either in this repo or through some other host, and to keep them up to date. It would be great to have these data available so we can assess if we are making progress towards the goals laid out in the roadmap.

Although static figures are also useful, as a scientist I would like to be able to analyze the data myself (and I imagine others would too!).

Wonderful to see this effort.

Apologies if it seems like I am being lazy and haven't read the full roadmap in detail, but I am wondering to what extent E&I efforts will relate to actual content development including such issues as use of gender-nuetral language, when its appropriate, use of imagery that portrays greater ethnic diversity, ficticious user names that represent greater cultural diversity (actually, the little bit of content I've looked at in detail seems to already do a decent job of that), etc.

Thank you for reviewing The Carpentries Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Roadmap. We would love to hear your thoughts around the following prompts:

1. Does this document capture what the community is saying?
2. Is there anything missing?
3. Do you have ideas for projects that might help achieve the goals?

We revised Data Carpentry's survey in 2017 so I have two datasets for the 2017 demographics. How should I merge them to create the report for this year's demographics? The question prompts/answer choices changed slightly in the surveys.

Here is the folder.

Watch Carli Spina talk on Universal Design for Learning and determine if there are common issues/improvements to address in the lessons.

Universal Design for Learning
In this Carpentries in Libraries community call, Carli Spina talks about Universal Design for Learning (UDL). She provides an overview of UDL and examples of how it can be applied to Carpentries lessons.
Slides: https://github.com/LibraryCarpentry/governance/blob/master/community-calls/2019-03-07-Spina-UDL.pdf
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56rhFeU5-Ig&feature=youtu.be

Interested in contributing. Maybe after some more advertising we could have a call on this? Too scattered right now to comment more here the second.