Who we are
The Carpentries project comprises the Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry, and Software Carpentry communities of Instructors, Trainers, Maintainers, helpers, and supporters who share a mission to teach foundational computational and data science skills. We serve researchers, scientists, librarians, and anyone interested in learning and teaching data and computational training.

Overview
Open science practices are at the core of all The Carpentries' work, and therefore at The Carpentries we are intentional and dedicated to making our lesson materials openly available and collaboratively developed. Our community of practice is dedicated to increasing the accessibility of data skills, and the diversity of people who use them. We develop and maintain lessons in foundational computation and data science skills and offer pedagogical training to instructors, empowering positive and effective peer-to-peer instruction. A truly amazing community has grown around our mission, and together we have trained over 2,800 instructors and offered over 2,700 workshops in 71 countries on all 7 continents.

Why sponsor The Carpentries
Your sponsorship will support the revitalization of our curriculum. Specifically, we will use sponsorship funding to pay Carpentries community members who are subject matter experts to modernize the following Carpentries lessons: Data Carpentry Data Cleaning with OpenRefine for Ecologists, Software Carpentry Version Control with Git, and Software Carpentry Programming with R.

The Carpentries and GitHub

• We value GitHub's platform for its far-reaching accessibility.
• We teach version control with Git using GitHub in our workshops.
• All Carpentries lessons are built on GitHub, and GitHub supports the infrastructure for The Carpentries website.