--- [TOC] # Maintainers Meeting ## Connection information ***Link to connect to video call*** https://carpentries.zoom.us/my/carpentriesroom2?pwd=WmVCOUlPUm1laFk5SUp1UWg5cjhEUT09 <!-- ***To join by phone*** - look for the phone number for your country at the bottom of this Etherpad. If you don't see a number for your country, please contact <team@carpentries.org>. --> Please see the community calendar (https://carpentries.org/community/#community-events) for all upcoming Maintainer meetings and to copy these events to your personal calendar. ## Accommodations The Carpentries is committed to providing inclusive and accessible content that enables all individuals, including those with disabilities, to participate and engage fully. We are actively working to increase the accessibility and usability of Carpentries’ content and in doing so adhere to many of the available standards and guidelines, including those from the World Wide Web Consortium. ### Request an Accommodation To read the full accessibility statement and to request an accommodation: Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (carpentries.org/eia/) If you have questions or need assistance with the accommodation form, please email The Carpentries, team@capentries.org. ## Upcoming Meetings Meetings happen every third Wednesday of the month. 1. Wednesday, 21 May, 2025 - Time 1 12:00 UTC: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Monthly+Meeting&iso=20250521T12 - Time 2 22:00 UTC: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Monthly+Meeting&iso=20250521T22 1. Wednesday, 18 June, 2025 - Time 1 12:00 UTC: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Monthly+Meeting&iso=20250618T12 - Time 2 22:00 UTC: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Monthly+Meeting&iso=20250618T22 ## Past meetings Minutes for the past meetings are available in the [Maintainer Resources repository](https://github.com/carpentries/maintainer-resources).  ## Monthly Maintainer's Meeting, 16 April 2025 Attending (1st Meeting) *(Name, optional pronouns, Institution, Lesson)*: - Ben Companjen (he/him), Leiden University Libraries, DC Ecology/SocSci OpenRefine - Daniel Cummins (he/him), Imperial College London, SWC MATLAB - Nathaniel Porter (he/him), Instructor Training Attending (2nd Meeting) *(Name, optional pronouns, Institution, Lesson)*: - Kristi Liu (she/her), UC Santa Barbara Library, Intro-Geospatial - Nathaniel Porter (he/him), Virginia Tech, Instructor Training - Jose Niño Muriel (he/him), UC Santa Barbara Library, Spreadsheets social science - Irene Ramos (she/her), OLS, Python for Ecology in Spanish - Erin Graham (she/her), James Cook University, swc git ### Agenda #### 1. Introductions #### 2. Updates from Carpentries team - Offboarding/onboarding - Offboarding complete (29 retiring) - retiring maintainers have been removed from Github teams - feel free to tag @ndporter if you need additional eyes to review a PR in the meantime - Onboarding survey closed (36 responses) - good mix of lesson interest - lesson assignments should be finalized next week - existing maintainers will receive an email once lessons are assigned to introduce new maintainers - onboarding will complete after 9 May - a lot of interest in python-ecology - Maintainer onboarding and GitHub skillup sessions - required for new maintainers and open to existing maintainers - Times and dates at https://pad.carpentries.org/maintainer-onboarding-2025 - Workbench - Metadata tweak to improve ability to scrape/index automatically - https://github.com/carpentries/sandpaper/issues/481#issuecomment-2804240599 - Some lesson builds especially new lessons getting Ubuntu version error (post in #workbench for help) #### 3. General Information #### 4. Special discussion (if time) #### 5. Other conversation ### For next meeting - Wednesday, 21 May, 2025