What is "The Carpentries?"

The Carpentries project comprises of the Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry communities of Instructors, Trainers, Maintainers, helpers, and supporters who share a mission to teach foundational computational and data science skills to researchers. The mission of the Carpentries is to build global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. The Carpentries collaboratively develop openly-available lessons and deliver these lessons using evidence-based teaching practices, focusing on people conducting and supporting research. For more information visit their website at: https://carpentries.org