What’s happening this week
The monthly Mozilla Science Lab call will take place this Thursday, May 8 at 11 ET. The call will be centered on education and everyone is welcome to join. Find more information, including details on how to connect, in this Etherpad.
Several workshops are looking for instructors and helpers for the summertime, for example, one at Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia in June, and another at the University of Nottingham in July. Take a look at the bottom of this post and spend a weekend teaching and making new friends.
Workshops
- Aron Ahmadia, Joshua R. Herr, and William Rowell taught a workshop at the George Washington University in Virginia.
- Greg Wilson and Warren Code taught a three-day in person version of our instructor training course at the Mozilla office in Toronto.
Upcoming workshops
- May 12: Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbour, NY,
- May 12: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Brazil.
- May 19: Science for Life Laboratory, Solna, Sweden.
- June 2: Monash University, Australia.
- June 4: Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Pisa, Italy.
Lesson development
7 pull requests were merged, 1 issue was closed, and 3 issues were opened. In addition to the merges, we had 23 commits made by Ethan White, mckays630, Chris Friedline, Greg Wilson, Andrea Zonca, and Dani Traphagen.
Other news
- The Science Lab just announced an exciting multi-site sprint for July 22–23. Save the date! You may join the sprint from one of the announced sites or propose a new one.
- Kathy Huff wrote on the Berkeley Review about the recent workshop for women .
- Greg Wilson posted some interesting comments about the instructor training course held last week in Toronto.
- Greg Wilson discussed on the blog about how Software Carpentry aims to increase the performance of researchers by helping them to reduce the programming hours they need to reach machine’s peak performance.
A workshop needs you
- US and Canada
- Workshop in the West Coast need instructors: two at the University of California at Davis, and four in total for two workshops in Stanford. Also a workshop at the University of Delaware and another in Atlanta need one more instructor.
- Europe
- At least one instructor is needed for a workshop in Kiel, Germany, and several for workshops in Cranfield, Nottingham, Cambridge and Oxford in the UK.
More details in the instructor-needed Etherpad.