What’s Happening Next Week
Workshops in the coming months need instructors and helpers: we have open spots for Toronto and Vancouver in Canada, Cold Spring Harbor and Ithaca in New York, Paris in France, Pisa in Italy, and Atlanta in Georgia. Please check the details in these Etherpads for the American camps and the European camps, or contact Amy and Arliss.
Workshops
Three workshops happened this week:
- Bernhard Konrad, Scott Chamberlain, Christina Koch, and Lynne Williams taught a workshop at Simon Fraser University in Canada. The workshop had two different tracks: one for Pythonistas and another for R programmers.
- Azalee Bostroem and Justin Ely taught a Python-based workshop in Madrid for the people at the European Astronomy Center.
- Stefano Cozzini and Sam Thomson taught a workshop in ETH Zurich.
Upcoming workshops
- 03/10 : University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA USA.
- 03/17 : New York University, New York, NY USA.
- 03/17 : University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley CA USA.
- 03/17 : University of Washington, Seattle WA USA.
- 03/17 : Purdue University, Lafayette IN USA.
Lesson development
5 pull requests were merged, 4 issues were closed, and 3 issues were opened. In addition to the merges, we had 43 commits made by Philipp Bayer, Raniere Silva, Denis Haine, Bill Mills, Michael Selik, Greg Wilson, and Tim McNamara.
Other news
- Damien Irving wrote on the blog about how a Software Carpentry bootcamp would look like if it was taught as an university course for graduate students.
- There is a pull request in our main repo to explore options to build our lesson materials using something different than Jekyll. Feel free to contribute.
- Greg Wilson posted the notes of the lab meeting that took place last week.
- Greg also set up a challenge on the blog: if you ever got scooped because you made your research project open, relieve your pain winning a Software Carpentry t-shirt. (And the prize keeps raising: Bill Howe is offering a mug and $100 in addition to the t-shirt.)
- We got some press in Canada: listen to Greg Wilson interviewed by CBC’s radio.