This is a meta repository to help navigate the numerous repositories and lessons of the Software Carpentry community on GitHub.

Software Carpentry is a community of volunteer instructors who teach short workshops and develop lessons which empower researchers of all disciplines to learn about and improve the ways in which they create software and collaborate.

We are an open and inviting community with an actively enforced Code of Conduct. We value the involvement of everyone in this community - learners, instructors, hosts, developers, steering committee members and staff. We are committed to creating a friendly and respectful place for learning, teaching and contributing. All participants in our events and communications are expected to show respect and courtesy to others.

For a fee, we can help you bring a Software Carpentry workshop to your organization. This fee supports the ongoing work of our community to train instructors in all disciplines and as a community support and develop the lessons that are needed to improve researcher's skills and practices with regard to software and data.

Our member organizations are organizations that are committed to supporting our organization so that they can have local instructors trained annually. Members also take an active role in helping to direct and support the sustainment and growth of the community.

You can get involved with our community by subscribing to our newsletter joining our mailing lists or coming to one of our community events/meetings. Want to contribute to the lessons themselves, a list of our open GitHub issues is a good place to start and each of our lessons has a CONTRIBUTING.md (example from shell-novice) that details how and what contributions are welcome. We use etherpads to manage much of our work and communications, we have an etherpad of etherpads to help you find things you're looking for.

We maintain a set of CSS and Jekyll scaffolding that can be used to help organize and create lessons in our style (swcarpentry/styles). Instructions for how to contribute are in swcarpentry/lesson-example.

We run a bunch of workshops every year, to coordinate all of our workshop activities we have been developing an open source tool called AMY. AMY is a Django application that helps us to manage our volunteer network and track when and where we will and have run workshops. It is an essential part of our day-to-day operations and is itself an open source project that welcomes contributions.

We work closely with the following projects and share community and instructor capacity:

• Data Carpentry
• Library Carpentry

These lessons were created as part of a contract to deliver advanced material. They've been taught a few times, but could benefit from some care and attention from the community. If you're interested in engaging with these lessons, please contact Jonah Duckles

• Python As A Second Language
• Managing a Research Software Project