What’s happening this week

The Mozilla Science Lab is launching a new initiative to boost collaboration between the different organizations teaching software bootcamps these days: Friday’s Instructor Hangouts. If you are part of Software Carpentry, Ladies Learning Code, rOpenSci, the Center for Open Science, Code4Lib, pyLadies, or a similar tribe, please find the details here.

Workshops

• Alex Viana and Raniere Silva taught not one but two workshops at the Centro de Competência em Software Livre at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, in Brazil.

Upcoming workshops

• Set 11–12: University of Delaware.
• Set 13–14: University of Waterloo, Canada.
• Set 15–25: University of Melbourne, Australia.
• Set 16–17: Imperial College, London, UK.
• Set 18–19: University of Chicago.

Lesson development

During this week, 7 pull requests were merged, 3 issues were closed, and 4 issues were opened. In addition to the merges, we had 9 commits made by Jonah Duckles, Ethan White, Raniere Silva, Doug Latornell, and John Blischak.

Other news

• Don’t miss the Nature interview with Kaitlin Thaney, Director of the Mozilla Science Lab. She talks about Software Carpentry and new plans for the Mozilla Science Lab.
• An instructor training course was announced at UC Davis in next January. This two-day workshop is the in-person version of our online instructor course. This will be followed by a third day focused on computational biology.
• The list of bootcamps for the fall, updated. If you want to host one, fill up our request form to get in started.
• Greg Wilson wrote in our blog about the book “Building Better Teachers”. Join the discussion about the book and share your insights on how to improve teaching.

A workshop needs you

• US and Canada
  • Workshops at Yale and the University of Toronto need instructors for coming workshops. Female instructors are needed for a new bootcamp for Women in Science and Enginnering, this time at the Univeristy of Michigan in January.
• Europe
  • Workshop in the UK, at Liverpool, Didcot, and Oxford, need instructors in November.
• Africa
  • Two instructors needed for a workshop in Cape Town in November.

More details in the instructor-needed Etherpad.