Hi Colin, Whew! It's taken me longer to respond than I intended. Your message got us (on the staff side) thinking deeply about what we should be doing better to make it easy for the community to share resources, and to provide a clear pathway for lessons being officially adopted as Carpentries lessons.
Your mention, especially, of the sharing-lessons Etherpad prompted me to look at all the places on our websites and other documentation where we give outdated and contradictory information about how to share lesson ideas and materials. Our Curriculum Team (me and François) have been working on cleaning up some of that outdated info over the past week, but it's still a work in progress! You were absolutely correct in creating an issue in carpentrieslab. That is where we've been directing people. The vision behind carpentrieslab is that it will provide a "repository of high-quality, community-reviewed, discoverable lessons". While we're working on developing the review process, however, it's become clear that people need a way to share materials even very early in the development stage. To start facilitating this sharing, we've created The Carpentries Incubator <https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/proposals/blob/master/README.md>. The Incubator will serve as a single point of entry for lessons or ideas at any stage in the development process. Any lesson that uses The Carpentries lesson template, follows our Code of Conduct, and is licensed either CC-BY or CC-0 can be hosted in The Carpentries Incubator. Once we get the review process up and running, reviewed lessons will be transferred to The Carpentries Lab and will be officially endorsed by The Carpentries as high quality resources. François has put together a flow-chart to help clarify the pathways that shared lesson materials can take in our community. For the moment, I've transferred your proposal <https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/proposals/issues/19> to the Incubator proposals repo. Since you've already used the lesson template, I think the only remaining "to-do" items to get your lesson hosted on the Incubator are to confirm that the materials follow the CoC, and to add one of the appropriate CC licenses. Could you ping me in the issue when those are complete or if you have any questions? After that, we'll be able to transfer your repo to the Incubator and give it a carpentries-incubator URL. Thank you for prompting us to continue working on making this process smoother for the community. Please let me know if you have any questions! Best, Erin ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tec7dd5bbaf838138-Me69dbbcd55673c276bba8892 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
