{"id":354,"date":"2014-02-24T00:42:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T00:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozscienceblog.wpengine.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2014-02-24T00:42:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T00:42:05","slug":"software-carpentry-week-in-review-february-16-22-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-science\/software-carpentry-week-in-review-february-16-22-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Carpentry Week in Review: February 16-22, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cMy whole work life the last two years has been trying to achieve what git does\u201d, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/adaptive_plant\/status\/435995291536203776\">Daniel Falster on Twitter<\/a>, quoting feedback from the workshop he taught this week at the University of Technology Sidney.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"whatshappeningnextweek\">What\u2019s happening next week<\/h2>\n<p>We are holding an online lab meeting for Software Carpentry this week.\u00a0Everyone is welcome to attend to either of these sessions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>this Wednesday<\/em>, Feb 26, at 8 pm, or<\/li>\n<li><em>this Thursday<\/em>, Feb 27, at 11 am.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both are Eastern time and the meeting will last an hour. Feel free to add your thoughts and items to the <a href=\"https:\/\/etherpad.mozilla.org\/swc-labmeeting\">lab etherpad<\/a>, and look there on the day for connection details.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"workshops\">Workshops<\/h2>\n<p>Three workshops happened this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>James Hetherington, Owain Kenway, Miguel Bernabeu Llinares, and Mayeul d\u2019Avezac, taught a <a href=\"http:\/\/apawlik.github.io\/2014-02-18-UCL\">workshop for the University College London<\/a> faculty and staff.<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Falster, Rich FitzJohn, and Diego Barneche taught a <a href=\"http:\/\/nicercode.github.io\/2014-02-18-UTS\">R-based workshop at the University of Technology in Sidney<\/a>, Australia.<\/li>\n<li>Stefano Cozzini and Kwasi Kwakwa taught a <a href=\"http:\/\/swcarpentry.github.io\/2014-02-18-aims\">workshop at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences<\/a> in Biriwa, Ghana.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"lessondevelopment\">Lesson development<\/h2>\n<p>8 pull requests were merged, 15 issues were closed, and 6 issues were opened. In addition to the merges, we had 23 commits made by Justin Kitzes, Raniere Silva, David Rio Deiros, Bill Mills, Greg Wilson, and John Blischak.<\/p>\n<p>You can always help Software Carpentry by contributing to the lesson repository. Take a look to the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/swcarpentry\/bc\/issues?state=open\">open issues<\/a> or open a new one to fix\/improve\/extend something in our lessons.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"othernews\">Other news<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In the aftermath of last week\u2019s tutorials on how to setup a workshop repository, <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/swcarpentry\/bc\/issues\/337\">Greg is asking for feedback<\/a>. In case you missed it live or for a quick refresh before a workshop, note that you can always <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/87241285\">watch the recorded version<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The paper <a href=\"http:\/\/f1000research.com\/articles\/3-62\/v1\">\u201cSoftware Carpentry: Lessons learned\u201d has been published on F1000 Research<\/a>. The paper summarizes the 15-year-long trip of Software Carpentry and the lessons learned on the road. Read about it <a href=\"http:\/\/software-carpentry.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/f1000-lessons-learned.html\">on the blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Greg Wilson <a href=\"http:\/\/software-carpentry.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/the-bigger-picture.html\">wrote on the blog<\/a> on how Software Carpentry\u2019s main <em>activity<\/em>, teaching workshops to scientists, is framed on Software Carpentry\u2019s main <em>goal<\/em>, make science more open.<\/li>\n<li>What else is needed for code reuse? Add your thoughts <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mozillascience\/code-research-object\/issues\/2\">to this issue<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/mozillascience.org\/what-else-is-needed-for-code-reuse\/\">Science Lab&#8217;s work towards a best practice<\/a> for their collaboration around <a href=\"https:\/\/mozillascience.org\/code-as-a-research-object-a-new-project\/\">code as a research object<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy whole work life the last two years has been trying to achieve what git does\u201d, Daniel Falster on Twitter, quoting feedback from the workshop he taught this week at the University of Technology Sidney. What\u2019s happening next week We &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-science\/software-carpentry-week-in-review-february-16-22-2014\/\">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\/354"}],"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=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}