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Official Carpentry workshops (covering the full curriculum) vs partial
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Description
In the IT material, it says that "You may only call a workshop a Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry, or Software Carpentry workshop if: it covers the core topics (see below)...".
Hosts/instructors are now also asked to report Carpentry workshops that cover only a part of the curriculum as 'mix & match/circuits' and they typically use the Carpentry workshop template and branding in these cases (which then breaks these rules we teach people at IT).
This is in conflict with the text in the IT material and needs clarifying. This seems like a policy decision that then needs to be consistently reflected in all channels.
This came up in the Instructor Training @steve-crouch and I are doing at the moment (https://anenadic.github.io/2021-03-16-ttt-ssi-online/). The official advice is to say that such workshops are based on Carpentry materials rather than official Carpentry workshops but perhaps we'd like to encourage people to report and advertise such workshops as Carpentry workshops as it gives more credit to the Carpentries and the community and also it is about brand recognition (people now recognise the name 'Carpentry' and 'Carpentries' and if workshops are advertised as such (even of they cover only a part of the curriculum) they perhaps attract more people. In any case, as mentioned, this is a policy decision but wanted to flag it up here.
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the quoted IT material and the linked Instructor Training page to identify the conflicting workshop terminology. This needs an agreed policy decision before the wording can be updated consistently across the affected channels; done means the policy is decided and the guidance no longer conflicts.
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Assessment
- Domain
- content, documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100