Context
In 2019, Kari Jordan, Tracy Teal, Sher! Hurt and Serah Rono constituted a working group that discussed supporting community members through conflict. From our working group's deliberations, we saw the need to set up a task force that would issue recommendations for dealing with incidents that come up in spaces where our community members are but whose review and resolution fall outside the mandate of The Carpentries Code of Conduct (CoC) committee.(See task force charter.
One of the key recommendations from this Task Force was the institution of a Code of Conduct Facilitators Program to serve as an added layer of support for our community before incidents are reported to the Code of Conduct Committee (CoCc). Details in the Code of Conduct Facilitators Program were first proposed by Malvika Sharan in Q1 2019. In summary, while maintaining the role of the CoCc as a CoC enforcement body, Code of Conduct Facilitators would actively monitor our online spaces and physical meetings and share potentially negative behaviours or otherwise certify that the community is functioning as expected.
The Carpentries is keen to expand on the original mandate of Code of Conduct Facilitators in The Carpentries beyond support for others in situations of conflict, and hope to include elements of encouragement and positive facilitation that are necessary for the health and continuance of an established community like The Carpentries as part of the mandate of community facilitators in The Carpentries. This, we believe, will help Facilitators feel more fulfilled in this role, and open up pathways for them to build trust with community members, a necessary aspect of this role.
Phases of the Community Facilitators Program
Developing the Roadmap for this project is the first of multiple phases toward the creation and launch of the Community Facilitators Program in The Carpentries. Other phases are:
Aims of the four-phase Community Facilitators Program
Develop a curriculum module to address recommendation 2 from Q3 2019’s Task Force work
Train first cohort of Community Facilitators on Code of Conduct facilitation
Pilot Code of Conduct facilitation
Identify topics for additional modules for the Community Facilitators Program
Invite community members to apply to be in the second cohort of the Community Facilitators Program
Train second cohort of Community Facilitators
Prepare second cohort of Community Facilitators for collaborative work in the first half of 2021
Offboard first cohort of Community Facilitators
Aims of the Community Facilitators Program
Change the existing Code of Conduct enforcement mechanism that The Carpentries has in place
Redesign or replace The Carpentries Mentorship program
Develop a curriculum and resources for local community building in The Carpentries
Develop a framework for a communications committee
Resources that will constitute the roadmap for the Community Facilitators Program (Phase 1 work)
[x] Identify all modules that will constitute the curriculum developed to support community facilitators
[x] Develop a dependency map to show how the Community Facilitators Program supports existing initiatives in The Carpentries community and to help introduce the Community Facilitators Program to our community to create a shared understanding and help recruit community members to future cohorts of the program
[x] Identify learning objectives for the first module of the Community Facilitators Program
[x] Identify the first module of the Community facilitators Program to develop
[x] Determine team composition & roles in the development of curriculum to train Community Facilitators, including licensing and branding
[x] Create a Community Facilitators lifecycle summary to guide communication about, onboarding to, and offboarding from the Community Facilitator program
Context In 2019, Kari Jordan, Tracy Teal, Sher! Hurt and Serah Rono constituted a working group that discussed supporting community members through conflict. From our working group's deliberations, we saw the need to set up a task force that would issue recommendations for dealing with incidents that come up in spaces where our community members are but whose review and resolution fall outside the mandate of The Carpentries Code of Conduct (CoC) committee.(See task force charter.
One of the key recommendations from this Task Force was the institution of a Code of Conduct Facilitators Program to serve as an added layer of support for our community before incidents are reported to the Code of Conduct Committee (CoCc). Details in the Code of Conduct Facilitators Program were first proposed by Malvika Sharan in Q1 2019. In summary, while maintaining the role of the CoCc as a CoC enforcement body, Code of Conduct Facilitators would actively monitor our online spaces and physical meetings and share potentially negative behaviours or otherwise certify that the community is functioning as expected.
The Carpentries is keen to expand on the original mandate of Code of Conduct Facilitators in The Carpentries beyond support for others in situations of conflict, and hope to include elements of encouragement and positive facilitation that are necessary for the health and continuance of an established community like The Carpentries as part of the mandate of community facilitators in The Carpentries. This, we believe, will help Facilitators feel more fulfilled in this role, and open up pathways for them to build trust with community members, a necessary aspect of this role.
Phases of the Community Facilitators Program Developing the Roadmap for this project is the first of multiple phases toward the creation and launch of the Community Facilitators Program in The Carpentries. Other phases are:
Aims of the four-phase Community Facilitators Program
Aims of the Community Facilitators Program
Resources that will constitute the roadmap for the Community Facilitators Program (Phase 1 work)