What’s happening this week
- Our monthly Lab Meeting is back from its summer vacation. It will be held in two sessions, on September 25 and 26, to adapt for time zones and busy schedules. As usual, feel free to propose topics for the meeting.
- Two bootcamps, at Yale and UCSF, need instructors in October. If you have some free time and want to teach them, take a look below.
Workshops
- Damien Irving, Russell Sim, Juan Nunez-Iglesias, Clare Sloggett, Maria Doyle, Zaki Akhmad, Xiaobin Shen, Andrew Fox, Grischa, and Alistair Walsh started to teach a four-day workshop at the University of Melbourne.
- Mike Jackson and Arno Proeme taught a workshop at the Imperial College in London.
- Will Trimble, Emily Davenport, Dan Braithwaite, and John Blischak, with the help of Daniel Rabe, Nick Knoblauch, Suchandra Thapa, and Bala Desinghu, taught a workshop at the University of Chicago.
Upcoming workshops
- Set 22–23: Lawrence Berkely Lab, California.
- Set 24–25: Federal Reserve Board, Washington D.C.
- Set 25–26: University of British Columbia, Canada.
- Set 27–28: Arizona State University.
- Oct 6–7: Indiana University.
- Oct 6–7: Ohio State University.
Lesson development
During this week, 5 pull requests were merged, 2 issues were closed, and 1 issue was opened. In addition to the merges, we had 26 commits made by Ethan White, Raniere Silva, Dan MacLean, Jonathan D. Strootman, Greg Wilson, Tom Wright, Damien Irving, Mark Stillwell, and Matt Davis.
Other news
- As Software Carpentry grows, it is harder to handle all the pull requests that our roughly hundred contributors make. Greg Wilson proposed to have topic maintainers for lessons in our main repository. We will vote on Greg’s proposal on this week’s Lab Meeting.
- Want to be a data scientist? Tianhui Michael Li, Executive Director of The Data Incubator, explains in our blog how to prepare for the Data Incubator program.
A workshop needs you
- US and Canada
- Workshops at Yale and the University of California at San Francisco need instructors in October. Female instructors are needed for a new bootcamp for Women in Science and Engineering, this time at the University of Michigan in January. A workshop in New Orleans needs an instructor in December or January.
- Europe
- Workshop in the UK, at Liverpool and Exeter, need instructors in November and December.
- Africa
- Two instructors needed for a workshop in Cape Town in November.
More details in the instructor-needed Etherpad.