What’s happening this week
The Mozilla Science Lab global sprint scheduled for July has started to take shape in this Etherpad. Add yourself to one of the confirmed sites or host the sprint elsewhere. A bunch of projects have been already proposed, but if you have a cool idea to work on, feel free to add it to the list.
Workshops
- Konrad Hinsen, Nelle Varoquaux, Karin Lagesen, and Lex Nederbragt taught a workshop at the Science Life Lab of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Aron Ahmadia and Ted Hart taught a workshop at the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System Annual Meeting, held in Boulder, Colorado.
Upcoming workshops
- May 29: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, California.
- June 2: Monash University, Australia.
- June 4: Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Pisa, Italy.
- June 4: Cornell Institute, Ithaca, New York.
- June 10: Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus.
- June 10: Spelman Institute, Atlanta, Georgia.
Lesson development
6 pull requests were merged, 3 issue were closed, and 4 issues were opened. In addition to the merges, we had 27 commits made by Jeramia Ory, jainsley, Brenna O’Brien, Raniere Silva, leyder and Greg Wilson.
Other news
- Last Thursday we had our monthly lab meeting. If you missed it, Greg Wilson posted a summary on our blog.
- After running our first workshop in Brazil last week, the summer comes loaded with a lot of workshops happening all over the world.
- In the last 2.5 years, close to 6000 people have attended a Software Carpentry workshop, and the number keeps growing fast!
A workshop needs you
- US and Canada
- A workshop at the University of Michigan in July needs two instructors. Also a workshop at the University of Delaware and another in Missouri need one more instructor.
- Europe
- At least one instructor is needed for a workshop in Kiel and another in Postdam, both in Germany, and several for workshops in Cranfield, Cambridge, and Oxford in the UK.
More details in the instructor-needed Etherpad.