Identify hurdles to content contribution and develop rubric for vetting external content #36
Description
Librarians regularly create bespoke workshop content on topics that are relevant to Carpentries topics and live outside of the Carpentries. In some cases this is content that is a variation or improvement of Carpentries content or just a new topic that might be of interest to our community. In some cases there appear to be unclear hurdles for some to contribute work back to the community, particularly work that iterates on and improves core curricular content. Understanding and addressing these hurdles may help us boost our maintainer community and benefit from content that has been positively iterated on.
In addition to this not all content needs to necessarily live in the Carpentries curriculum, particularly if it is already a part of a bespoke well-maintained curriculum. In those cases developing a rubric for determining which content is relevant to our community and listing it as partner content may be effective and beneficial.
This project has two parts: 1) a series of semi-formal interviews with librarians active in Carpentries relevant content creation to better understand hurdles to community participation 2) the development of a light rubric for determining when external content is helpful to list and promote to the Carpentries community.