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What are the organizational support structures that make it easy for you to build your local community or personal skills?

Maybe it is:

• A research institute
• University center
• The library
• A particular lab group's culture
• Some available workshops/resources

In short, what is it about the places where you work (or have worked) that helps you grow and develop your skills?

The feedback here will be curated and fed to this chapter:
https://github.com/carpentries/community-cookbook/blob/master/support/00-index.md

We could bring some after-workshop resources over to this repo, or it could potentially grow into its own resource of resources.

This conversations issue is tracking some specific resources:
carpentries/conversations#18

From Wirawan

Similarly, stories of failures or challenges are rarely published. If we can carefully present them (without shaming the failing parties), they can provide useful lessons for other people.

From: Wirawan

It might be helpful to include some user contribution of experiences with some of these approach. What works, what kind of community are they serving? In this way, other people can see what might likely work for their particular community.

Some retention strategies for ResBaz type events from eResearch NZ 2019 discussions:

• start with a group activity
• Join people to whanau (family) groups (i.e. assign people to groups by colour or animal)
• Pair people up or small groups
• use posters and encourage poster interactions with sticky notes (like Sydney ResBaz)

Please share periodic or annual events that are useful to supporting learners as they learn new skills. For now just add the event with a short description of the audience and we'll try to curate this into some kind of disciplinary and geographic view.

We'll feed these comments to:

https://github.com/carpentries/community-cookbook/blob/master/activities/05.06-international-events.md

I've begun to list tools useful for running a campus/regional community. Please add other tools you use to this issue, or submit a PR to this file and we'll add them in.

Things like:

• Mailing list software
• video conferencing tools
• collaboration platforms and tools
• shared calendars

Submissions will be added to:

https://github.com/carpentries/community-cookbook/blob/master/tools/00-index.md

Based on the Champions call blog post list of Carpentry Community websites, this is a place to collect other community websites that should be included in the next update of the community-cookbook.

The current list is:

• Study Group - The University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
• UF Carpentries Club
• Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry at The University of Oklahoma
• New England Software Carpentry Library Consortium
• Carpentry @ UiO
• The Software Sustainability Institute
• eScience at University of Washington
• The University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Data Science at UCSF
• Illinois - Hands on with CSE
• UC Berkeley Carpentries Club
• UChicago Carpentries Club
• Smithsonian Carpentries Group

Please add yours if I missed it, or you know about another one by commenting on this issue with the link.

Please share your initiation story about how you helped build and grow a community of practice.

# The Beginning
How did you get started?

# Successes
What were your victories?

# Challenges 
What challenges and stumbling blocks did you run into?

Please share using the above Markdown headings and we'll curate this into a chapter on what it takes to initiate a community of practice.

This feedback will be used to feed the chapter on initiating local communities:
https://github.com/carpentries/community-cookbook/blob/master/initiation/00-index.md