The New England Software Carpentry Library Consortium or NESCLiC is now part of the Northeast Carpentries community. We’re an association of New England and northeastern academic institutions, joined as a community of practice focused on building data science skills in research computing, extracting, wrangling, storing, analyzing, and visualizing data.
Since being founded in 2017, NESCLiC has organized cohorts of Carpentries instructors from over 13 institutions to become certified from 2018-2025, and has hosted or taught more than 30 Carpentry events.
Our New Community Model
By working together as part of the official Northeast Carpentries community, we can achieve several key goals that extend beyond individual institutional efforts. We would be able to coordinate and share resources, including workshop materials, best practices, and instructors to support self-organized events. This collaboration would also provide a valuable networking opportunity for members to connect, share challenges, and celebrate successes.
An official regionally-organized community could facilitate:
Resource Sharing: We could coordinate to share best practices, workshop materials, and even instructors to help with self-organized events.
Networking: It would be a great way to connect with peers facing similar challenges and celebrate our successes in teaching data and computational skills.
Wider Impact: By working together, we could increase the reach and impact of data science in the New England and Northeast communities and at our individual institutions through more workshops and events put on through a growing group of instructors and helpers. This community can also be used to support large workshops over Zoom where every institution can be involved, much like what the University of California Carpentries Community does each year.
More Engagement with the Carpentries: By being an official Carpentries community, we can meet with and learn from other Carpentries communities and members to improve our workshop offerings and lesson development.
Join the community
Interested in joining the Northeast Carpentries community? Join our slack channel or email Scott Peterson at sp277@buffalo.edu.