Teaching as a community effort

by Bartosz Telenczuk / @btel
Software Carpentry Paris group / @paris-swc
and Software Carpentry community / @swcarpentry

770 workshops worldwide
21574 students trained
(as of June 11th, 2016)

Our teaching method

Software Carpentry as an open source community

Common Characteristics of an Open Source Community

  • inclusive and transparent,
  • distributed contributors,
  • working together on an open source "product",
  • communicating through internet channels.
  • 684 certified Software Carpentry instructors
  • 176 certified Data Carpentry instructors
  • based in 34 countries
  • 97 contributors, 200 forks,
  • ~1000 commits, 120 PRs merged,
  • 4000 lines of content, 10 core lessons

Our local community

  • Jan Antolik,
  • Andrew Davison
  • Loïc Estève,
  • Eric Bray,
  • Konrad Hinsen,
  • Alexandre Gramfort,
  • Samuel Lelièvre,
  • Camille Marini,
  • Marcel Stimberg,
  • Bartosz Teleńczuk,
  • Maria Teleńczuk,
  • Nelle Varoquaux

Our Software Carpentry workshops

6 SC workshops in Paris area + 1 advanced workshop,
4 workshops last year, 153 students trained,
10 certified instructors, 7 instructors trained in 2016,

PROTO204 training: 50 seats sold out in a day

What is next?

Join us!

  • host a workshop,
  • become a helper/instructor,
  • contribute to lessons,
  • become Software Carpentry partner


Contact us