{"id":325,"date":"2014-02-17T01:27:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T01:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozscienceblog.wpengine.com\/?p=325"},"modified":"2014-02-17T01:27:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T01:27:01","slug":"software-carpentry-week-in-review-february-9-15-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-science\/software-carpentry-week-in-review-february-9-15-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Carpentry Week in Review: February 9-15, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"whatshappeningnextweek\">What\u2019s happening next week<\/h2>\n<p>Greg Wilson will be doing a walk-through of the GitHub repository for our\u00a0lesson materials, <strong>this Thursday<\/strong>, February 20th, at 10am, 2 pm, and 7pm, all\u00a0Eastern time. Everyone is welcome, specially those planning to teach a workshop\u00a0in the near future. Connection details will be posted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/etherpad.mozilla.org\/swc-teaching\">teaching\u00a0Etherpad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"workshops\">Workshops<\/h2>\n<p>Four workshops happened this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Damien Irving taught a <a href=\"http:\/\/damienirving.github.io\/2014-02-10-hobart\/\">workshop at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic\u00a0Studies<\/a>, at the University of\u00a0Tasmania in Hobart, Australia. The workshop was part of the 2014 National\u00a0Conference of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society.<\/li>\n<li>Trevor Bekolay, Bonny Biswas, Abby Cabunoc, and Greg Wilson taught a <a href=\"http:\/\/swcarpentry.github.io\/2014-02-11-toronto\">workshop at the Mozilla campus in\u00a0Toronto<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Falster, Rich FitzJohn, and Diego Barneche taught a <a href=\"http:\/\/nicercode.github.io\/2014-02-13-UNSW\">R-based workshop\u00a0at the University of South Wales<\/a>\u00a0in Australia, specifically aimed to researchers in Ecology and Evolutionary\u00a0Biology.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, Emily Jane McTavish, Jonah Duckles, and Genevieve Smith taught a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/swcarpentry.github.io\/2014-02-15-umck\">workshop at the University of Missouri-Kansas\u00a0City<\/a> over the weekend. The\u00a0workshop was R-based and the students were mostly working on Economics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"lessondevelopment\">Lesson Development<\/h2>\n<p>There was quite an activity in <a href=\"http:\/\/github\/swcarpentry\/bc\/\">our lesson\u00a0repository<\/a>: 14 pull requests were merged, 9\u00a0issues were closed, and 10 issues were opened. In addition to the merges, we\u00a0had 48 commits made by Greg Wilson, Bernhard Konrad, Raniere Silva, Denis\u00a0Haine, Kwasi Kwakwa, and AnneTheAgile.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"othernews\">Other news<\/h2>\n<p>Greg Wilson <a href=\"http:\/\/software-carpentry.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/online-peer-instruction-tool.html\">wrote on the blog about peer\u00a0instruction<\/a>,\u00a0a flipped classroom teaching method in which students discuss together on\u00a0questions posed by the instructor. Peer instruction is hard to implement in\u00a0online learning, due to the lack of appropriate software. If you are interested\u00a0in hacking an online peer instruction tool, contact Greg.<\/p>\n<p>Karthik Ram <a href=\"http:\/\/software-carpentry.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/ropensci-hackathon.html\">made a call on the\u00a0blog<\/a> for\u00a0people interested in contributing to the <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/ropensci\/hackathon\">rOpenSci\u00a0Hackathon<\/a>, to be held in San Francisco\u00a0at the end of March. R developers can apply for an invitation to attend, but\u00a0everybody is welcome to propose ideas to hack on through\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/ropensci\/hackathon\/issues\">their GitHub\u00a0repo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that <a href=\"http:\/\/software-carpentry.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/pycon-bootcamps.html\">we are running our biggest event\u00a0ever<\/a> at PyCon\u00a02014 in Montreal next April. In addition to our usual curriculum, there will be\u00a0two special classes by Prof. Titus Brown on bioinformatics, and by Prof.\u00a0Ramnath Vaidyanathan on R for Python programmers. Consider <a href=\"http:\/\/etherpad.mozilla.org\/swc-pycon2014\">joining the PyCon\u00a0pool of instructors and helpers<\/a>, and\u00a0spread the word among your Canadian and East Coast friends. See all the details\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/software-carpentry.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/pycon-bootcamps.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Please send bootcamp reports, questions, suggestions for quotes, and other\u00a0updates to <a href=\"mailto:igonzalez@mailaps.org\">igonzalez@mailaps.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s happening next week Greg Wilson will be doing a walk-through of the GitHub repository for our\u00a0lesson materials, this Thursday, February 20th, at 10am, 2 pm, and 7pm, all\u00a0Eastern time. Everyone is welcome, specially those planning to teach a workshop\u00a0in &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-science\/software-carpentry-week-in-review-february-9-15-2014\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290376],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}