{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/carpentries/executive-council-info/issues/1","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/carpentries/executive-council-info","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/carpentries/executive-council-info/issues/1/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/carpentries/executive-council-info/issues/1/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/carpentries/executive-council-info/issues/1/events","html_url":"https://github.com/carpentries/executive-council-info/issues/1","id":349862350,"node_id":"MDU6SXNzdWUzNDk4NjIzNTA=","number":1,"title":"RFC: Mission Statement","user":{"login":"kcranston","id":312034,"node_id":"MDQ6VXNlcjMxMjAzNA==","avatar_url":"https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/312034?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/kcranston","html_url":"https://github.com/kcranston","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kcranston/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kcranston/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kcranston/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kcranston/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kcranston/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kcranston/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kcranston/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kcranston/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kcranston/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2018-08-13T01:29:54Z","updated_at":"2018-08-14T06:10:33Z","closed_at":null,"author_association":"NONE","body":"# RFC for Mission Statement\r\n\r\nDraft statement:\r\n\r\n> The Carpentries builds global capacity in essential data and computational\r\n> skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. We train and\r\n> foster an active, inclusive, diverse community of learners and instructors\r\n> that promotes and models the importance of software and data in research. This\r\n> community collaboratively develops openly-available lessons and delivers these\r\n> lessons using evidence-based teaching practices. We focus on people conducting\r\n> and supporting research in diverse contexts including colleges, universities,\r\n> and research labs.\r\n\r\nBackground:\r\n\r\nThe goal of this statement was to:\r\n\r\n1. Capture our emphasis on building capacity for data and computational research\r\n   by training and supporting people with the appropriate skills and perspectives.\r\n2. Emphasize the importance of the community and that it is composed of both\r\n   learners and instructors (often our members are both).\r\n3. Describe our core activities.\r\n4. Communicate our scope to serve as a guiding principle when making decisions\r\n   about what activities to pursue (see a special note on this below).\r\n\r\nSpecific request for feedback:\r\n\r\nThe Executive Council struggled with the final sentence of this statement. The\r\ngoal of this sentence is to communicate the scope of The Carpentries to serve as\r\na guiding principle for where to commit our limited energy. For example, K-12\r\ncomputing education is not currently a component of our mission. The goal is a\r\nbrief statement that communicates our general area of focus, which includes\r\ncolleges, universities, libraries associated with this institutions, and other\r\nsimilar institutions (e.g., National labs). There is concern that the current\r\nlanguage of \"research labs\" incorrectly communicate a focus on science. We\r\nconsidered making this more general by replacing “We focus on people conducting\r\nand supporting research and scholarship”, but were concerned that it was\r\npotentially too broad in terms of scope. We also considered \"research\r\nenvironments\" and \"research institutions\" as substitutes for \"research labs\" but\r\nweren't sure if either of these communicated well to the broad community. We\r\nwould very much like to hear feedback on this wording.\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/carpentries/executive-council-info/issues/comments/412764994","html_url":"https://github.com/carpentries/executive-council-info/issues/1#issuecomment-412764994","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/carpentries/executive-council-info/issues/1","id":412764994,"node_id":"MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDQxMjc2NDk5NA==","user":{"login":"swaldman3","id":2036150,"node_id":"MDQ6VXNlcjIwMzYxNTA=","avatar_url":"https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/2036150?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/swaldman3","html_url":"https://github.com/swaldman3","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/swaldman3/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/swaldman3/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/swaldman3/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/swaldman3/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/swaldman3/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/swaldman3/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/swaldman3/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/swaldman3/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/swaldman3/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2018-08-14T06:10:33Z","updated_at":"2018-08-14T06:10:33Z","author_association":"NONE","body":"IMHO \"research institutions\" is inclusive - but I'm coming from a science background, so may not understand the concern."}}
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