Our Community Wishlist

There are lots of things that the Carpentry community is excited about developing, improving or expanding, but we don't yet have a way for community members to organize efforts around these things and make progress towards achieving them.

There are a lot of eager individuals in the community who want to get involved, but don't know how or what to get involved with.

Let's figure out how to bring together these ideas with this community energy and make things happen!

A first step is gathering ideas about what people are excited about. This might be something that is already in the works, or something new. Share what you're excited about below!

Once we've got our wishlist we can start working on connecting passion and resources to help make our wishes come true. But first let's let ourselves free range to dream. What do you wish for the Carpentry community? What do you want to see happen in the next six months or a year?

Here are some of my wishes to get us started. Please add yours!
- Personalized mentoring for all new Carpentry instructors
- Ways for learners to continue participating in the Carpentry community after their workshop
- More workshops in more regions (increase presence in Central/South America, Asia, and Africa)
- A Data Carpentry workshop for Social Scientists

I'd like to propose that development of this "Getting Involved" portal, including infrastructure and first-pass content be part of our second work cycle - Cycle Deimos - March 20th through May 12th. For more background about how we're using work cycles, check out our blog post: http://www.datacarpentry.org/blog/prometheus/

If you're interested in being part of the work team for developing this, please comment below.