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# Appendix
Extra resources and supporting material
## Local Community Websites
There are a number of local communities around the world which run their own
community websites for their activities with The Carpentries. These can be
found bellow. If you know of, or manage any communities like this, please
[file an issue](https://github.com/carpentries/community-cookbook/issues) or
[Pull Request](https://github.com/carpentries/community-cookbook/pulls)
with the repository used to manage this document to get it listed.
- [Study Group - The University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ](https://otagocarpentries.github.io)
- [UF Carpentries Club](https://www.uf-carpentries.org)
- [Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry at The University of Oklahoma](https://libraries.ou.edu/content/software-and-data-carpentry)
- [New England Software Carpentry Library Consortium](https://nesclic.github.io)
- [Carpentry @ Univ. of Oslo](https://uio-carpentry.github.io/)
- [The Software Sustainability Institute](https://software.ac.uk/programmes-events/carpentries/software-carpentry)
- [eScience at University of Washington](https://escience.washington.edu)
- [The University of Wisconsin - Madison](https://hub.datascience.wisc.edu/training)
- [Data Science at UCSF](https://www.library.ucsf.edu/ask-an-expert/data-science/)
- [Illinois - Hands on with CSE](https://cse.illinois.edu/cse-training/)
- [UC Berkeley Carpentries Club](https://bids.berkeley.edu/research/berkeley-carpentries-club)
- [UChicago Carpentries Club](https://uc-carpentries.github.io)
- [Smithsonian Carpentries Group](https://datascience.si.edu/carpentries)
## Community Formation Stories
What follows is community formation stories about the successes and challenges
of building a local community of instructors.
## Lex Nederbragt
### The Beginning
It started with our first Software Carpentry workshop in 2012. Two participants
(one of them me) were recruited to become instructors. After organising the
occasional workshop, we were very lucky to get the support of the University's
Science Library. With them, we have been able to grow the workshop offerings and
local instructor/helper community.
### Successes
We now have 15 certified instructors and several regular helpers. We organise
many half-day or one-day workshops teaching a single lesson. This gives enough
time to go through _all_ of the material in a calm pace. especially the R and
Python workshops are quickly sold out. We have organised Research Bazaar twice,
with a great many people holding workshops and many participants. Our
participants come not only from the University, also from surrounding hospitals,
libraries and other organisations.
### Challenges
We experience a high no-show rate as our workshops are free of charge. We have
yet to find a good way of helping learners after the workshop (continued
learning, help-sessions, ...). I think we can do more to make our instructor and
helpers feel part of a local community with common interests.
## Sarah Stevens
### The Beginning
In 2014, I held an initial meeting, advertising the group and my ideas for what
the group would be. Then I put together a listserv and webpage for people to get
information from. I then started planning meetings based on the interests
people mentioned at the first meeting.
### Successes
Originally we started with a general computational biology for the main group
and then a python study group under it. Since then people also wanted a R study
group so we started a group for that too. We have formed a pretty large
community that is relatively organized now. New people have taken over running
it so I'm confident it will continue after I graduate. We have regular
attendance of about 15-20 people in Python Study Group and about 10-15 in R
Study Group. This has also helped to put together collaborations by helping
members meet people from other labs.
### Challenges
Well we've changed our name over the years since the original name wasn't great
and it confused a lot of people about what our goals are. Our new name seems to
work better.
Getting people involved was also a challenge but it helped to
delegate who runs the weekly study groups which gets people involved the running
of the group which helps keep them participating. I also kind of wish I'd found
people to help me earlier on. It would be nice to have a larger group of
organizers.
[More information](http://sarahlrstevens.info/communitybuild_combee/)
## Belinda Weaver
### The Beginning
I have been involved with The Carpentries since 2014. At that stage, there were
no instructors in Brisbane, Australia, where I live. To organise my first
workshop, I had to bring in instructors from outside. Our first workshop was
over-subscribed, and some of the attendees there went on to train as instructors
themselves. Now we have a pool of around 25 instructors, and we run several
workshops a year.
### Successes
Five people from Brisbane were able to train as instructors at the first
Australian Research Bazaar (ResBaz) held in Melbourne in 2015. (ResBaz is a
three-day, skill- and community building event.) Those five helped me get
Software Carpentry established in Brisbane, and three of that original five are
still active in the Carpentries. I was able to secure an open instructor
training for Brisbane in 2016. Twenty new instructors were trained there and 18
of that cohort completed their certification and went on to either teach or be
supportive members of the community. Having trained as an instructor myself in
2015, I taught more than a dozen workshops in 2016, a big jump up from three in
2015.
We have a Brisbane tradition of running Research Bazaar. These events always
feature Software Carpentry workshops, so the two types of event cross-promote
each other. Conference linkages have also been important. Software Carpentry
workshops are always run as a tie-in to the annual UQ Winter School in
Mathematical and Computational Biology, and a number of Software Carpentry
workshops have been tie-ins to local conferences, for example, in climate
science.
### Challenges
Because of the demand for teaching spaces, we have never had the luxury of good
facilities for our workshops. We have had to make do with rooms at residential
colleges, which cost a fee to hire.
I started teaching workshops simply by deciding to have a go. I knew I wouldn’t
get funding or support until I had proven the usefulness of what I was doing, so
I settled on a date, booked a room, and rustled up some instructors. That is all
you really need to get started - a date. That concentrates the mind and … away
you go.