Application to become a Carpentries Maintainer 2024
Carpentries Maintainers work with the community to make sure that lessons stay up-to-date, accurate, functional and cohesive. Maintainers monitor their lesson repository, make sure that PRs and Issues are addressed in a timely manner. They endeavor to be welcoming and supportive of contributions from all members of the community. More detailed information about what Maintainers do can be found here: http://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/maintainers/maintainers.html. Please review this document, paying attention to the time commitment involved, before submitting your application.

This round of Maintainer Onboarding will be held in April/May, on dates and times to be determined by responses to the scheduling poll linked at the end of this survey. Synchronous and asynchronous options will be provided. The onboarding process is a 3 hour time commitment.

Thank you for your interest in joining the Maintainer team!
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Email *
Name *
In what ways have you been involved in The Carpentries community? *
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What else would you like to share about your involvement with The Carpentries?
Please tell us about your motivations for becoming a Maintainer. *
We are recruiting Maintainers for the following lessons. Lessons marked with stars (** or *) are most in need of Maintainers. Please indicate all lessons you would be happy to maintain. You will only be assigned to one lesson. Information about each lesson can be found on the Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry, and Software Carpentry lesson pages. 
Very interested in maintaining
Can maintain if needed
** Foundations of Astronomical Data Science (Data Carpentry)
Introduction to Geospatial Concepts (Data Carpentry)
Introduction to R for Geospatial Data (Data Carpentry)
* Introduction to Geospatial Raster and Vector Data with R (Data Carpentry)
** Project Organization and Management for Genomics (Data Carpentry)
Introduction to the Command Line for Genomics (Data Carpentry)
** Data Wrangling and Processing for Genomics (Data Carpentry)
Introduction to Cloud Computing for Genomics (Data Carpentry)
Data Analysis and Visualization in Python for Ecologists (Data Carpentry)
** Data Analysis and Visualization in R for Ecologists (Data Carpentry)
** Data Cleaning with OpenRefine for Ecologists (Data Carpentry)
Data Organization in Spreadsheets for Ecologists (Data Carpentry)
Data Management with SQL for Ecologists (Data Carpentry)
** Data Cleaning with OpenRefine for Social Scientists (Data Carpentry)
** Data Organization in Spreadsheets for Social Scientists (Data Carpentry)
OpenRefine (Library Carpentry)
** Tidy Data (Library Carpentry)
Introduction to Git (Library Carpentry)
* Introduction to Python (Library Carpentry)
* Introduction to R (Library Carpentry)
* SQL (Library Carpentry)
* Introduction to Working with Data - Regular Expressions (Library Carpentry)
Control de versiones con Git (Software Carpentry)
Programming with Python (Software Carpentry)
The Unix Shell (Software Carpentry)
Version Control with Git (Software Carpentry)
Of the lessons you selected above, which lesson(s) are you most interested in maintaining? We will make every effort to assign you one of your top choices. *
Which language(s) are you comfortable maintaining lessons in? *
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I have read and agree to abide by the Carpentries Code of Conduct (https://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/policies/code-of-conduct.html). *
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I have filled out the availability poll for scheduling Maintainer Onboarding (don't forget to select your time zone at the top of the poll!):  *
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