Advocating for The Carpentries: Participating in External Boards/Committees

[kariljordan]

Goal 6 in the Carpentries strategic plan is to Advocate for our values and vision to empower more people to work with data and software. Under this goal is the following objective:
Encourage Core Team and Community members to

• serve on advisory boards of other organisations to provide guidance and advocacy in areas key to The Carpentries mission and vision and
• respond to requests for comments in these areas.

This issue collects information on boards or committees that Carpentries' Core Team and community members are a part of, and any requests for comments we have responded to related to advocating for more people to work with data and software.

[kariljordan]

Here are the board and advisory committees that I serve on (as of 2024-04-30):

• Code for Science & Society (CS&S), Board Member
• Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) Working Group of the Council of Councils

Here are the boards and advisory committees I have served on in the past:

• iDigBio, External Advisory Board Member
• Banbury Life Sciences Training, Organizing Committee Member
• Planning for Open Grants, Advisory Committee Member
• CS&S Event Fund Advisory Committee
• Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (AG2PI) Scientific Advisory Board, Member
• Reproducibility for Everyone (R4E), Advisory Committee Member
• Open Research Funders Group (ORFG), Equitable Working Group Member

Other:

• National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), Lifetime Member

[elletjies]

Here are the board and advisory committees that I serve on:

• CS&S Event Fund Selection Committee (incoming 2022 - date)
• SADiLaR External Evaluation Panel 2022
• Stellenbosch University RSE Special Interest Group 2022-date
• CODATA Pretoria Summerschool Advisor 2020/2021
• Extraordinary Researcher, Optentia Research Focus Area, North-West University, South Africa, 2018 to date
• Member of African Reproducibility Network (AREN)

[karenword]

[moved to #3]

[kariljordan]

@karenword can you please add your comment with a link to your slides to #3? Thanks!

[ErinBecker]

I joined iDigBio's external advisory board in August 2022 but was unable to attend their meeting in September as it was held on Rosh Hashanah.

[sheraaronhurt]

• NASA Transform to OpenScience (TOPS) panel (2022-23)
• csv,conf 7 Planning Committee (2022-23)
• IMLS grant proposal titled An Investigation of Virtual Reality Initiatives and Workforce Development Outcomes in Libraries (2023-24)
• Michigan Technological University - Pavlis Honors College External Advisory Board (2023 - 2026)
• National Society of Black Engineers - Conference Planning Committee (2024 - 2025)

[kariljordan]

I do not serve on any external boards or committees.

@ErinBecker I believe you joined iDigBio's external advisory board, didn't you?

[ErinBecker]

@kariljordan - see update above :-)

[acrall]

I serve on Education Committee for Ecological Society of America and Community Advisory Panel for Midwest Big Data Hub

[froggleston]

I serve on:

• The AG2PI Scientific Advisory Board (although I could rotate off as Kari is also on this board!)
• The DivSeek Board of Directors
• The UKRI BBSRC core panel membership for Committee C

[sheraaronhurt]

Will be serving on:

• IMLS grant proposal titled An Investigation of Virtual Reality Initiatives and Workforce Development Outcomes in Libraries

[acrall]

Continue service on Education Committee for Ecological Society of America and Community Advisory Panel for Midwest Big Data Hub. Am also contributing as a member of a working group to support a project led by American Indian Higher Education Council (AIHEC) to build capacity in data science education at Tribal Colleges and Universities

[kariljordan]

Here are the board and advisory committees that I serve on:

* Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (AG2PI) Scientific Advisory Board, Member

* Code for Science & Society (CS&S), Board Chair

* Reproducibility for Everyone (R4E), Advisory Committee Member

* Open Research Funders Group (ORFG), Equitable Working Group Member

Here are the boards and advisory committees I have served on in the past:

* iDigBio, External Advisory Board Member

* Banbury Life Sciences Training, Organizing Committee Member

* Planning for Open Grants, Advisory Committee Member

* CS&S Event Fund Advisory Committee

Other:

* National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), Lifetime Member

• I joined IEEE's Computing in Science & Engineering Editorial Board as a Column editor for the Education Department.

[elletjies]

I updated my list here - #1 (comment)

[acrall]

No updates from previous comment

[sheraaronhurt]

Made updates to previous list

[acrall]

No updates from previous comment

[ErinBecker]

No updates from previous comment

[elletjies]

No new updates - #1 (comment)

[elletjies]

Updated - #1 (comment)

[acrall]

My term of service on the Ecological Society of America's Education Committee has ended.

[acrall]

No new updates

[ErinBecker]

No new updates.

[kariljordan]

Update from #1 (comment), I am no longer on IEEE's Computing in Science & Engineering Editorial Board as a Column editor for the Education Department.

[sheraaronhurt]

No new updates

[sheraaronhurt]

Update from previous comment. Added NSBE Conference Planning

[ErinBecker]

No new updates.

[elletjies]

Advisor for Oversight Committee of the CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science, South Africa

[sheraaronhurt]

No new updates #1 (comment)

[kariljordan]

Since June 2024 I have been a member of the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) Working Group. The charge for the working group is as follows:

• Review the current scope and goals of the GREI as well as progress to date;
• Provide recommendations on future GREI objectives and goals, based on progress in the context of the larger repository ecosystem and the biomedical research community needs;
• Provide recommendations on future success measures for proposed future GREI objectives and goals, accounting for a diverse community of researchers.

Additionally, my goal is to determine whether there is potential strategic alignment between The Carpentries goals and those of the generalist repositories. This work supplements our GREI subaward.