What’s happening this week

The monthly Software Carpentry lab meeting will be this Thursday, June 26th, at 10am and 7pm ET. Details are in this Etherpad.

Workshops

• Luis Pedro Coelho and Marios Isaakidis taught a workshop at Cyprus University in Nicosia, Cyprus, and another one in Amman, Jordan.
• Will Trimble and Elijah Lowe taught a workshop at the Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia.
• Naupaka Zimmerman, Bernhard Konrad, Dav Clark, and Andrea Zonca taught a workshop at the Univeristy of California at Davis.
• Preston Holmes and Bill Mills taught a workshop at the Claremont Colleges in California.
• Cliburn Chan, Karen Cranston, and Joshua Granek taught a workshop at Duke University in North Carolina.
• Pauline Barmby, Jennifer Campbell, and Greg Wilson taught a workshop at the Mozilla Toronto.

Upcoming workshops

• June 24–25: Rockfeller University, New York.
• June 24–25: Womem in Science and Engineering, Philadelphia.
• June 25–26: Univeristy of Reading, UK.
• June 26–27: University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
• Jun 30-Jul 1: Stanford University, California.

Lesson development

In these two weeks, 11 pull requests were merged, 6 issues were closed, and 11 issues were opened. In addition to the merges, we had 13 commits made by Greg Wilson, Raniere Silva, Ben Marwick, mestato, and Rémi Emonet.

Other news

• ARCHER, the UK’s new national supercomputing service, annouced a three-day Software Carpentry bootcamp “to master the skills you need before tacking anything with cloud or peta or HPC in their name.”
• Registration for the instructor training course in Norwich in late October is open.
• Bill Mills wrote in our blog a detailed reflection on the way we teach Python.
• Jeff Shelton described in our blog his plans to run a engineering focused bootcamp. He is looking for feedback and instructors.
• Will Trimble taugth a workshop where students run into a problem using git on Windows, but he had only his Mac to figure it out. His solution: spin an Amazon EC2 instance running Windows, reproduce the issue, and fix it. As a bonus, he fixed other 14 bootcamp repos..
• Tareq Malas wrote in our blog about the Python tutorials he is teaching at the KinKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia.
• Projects for our July sprint are blooming. See a summary in this, and this posts.
• As part of the July sprint, some people is traslating the Software Carpentry novice lessons into Spanish. If you want to help, check out this repo.
• Also as part of the sprint, Atul Varma is building a tool to administer bootcamps.

A workshop needs you

• US and Canada
  • A workshop at workshop at Stanford University at the end of July needs an instructor. Another instructor is needed at US Department of Agriculture in Athens, Georgia in September.
• Europe
  • At least one instructor is needed for a workshop in Kiel in Germany, and several for workshops in Nottingham, Cambridge, and Oxford in the UK.

More details in the instructor-needed Etherpad.