{"id":678,"date":"2014-06-23T12:34:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T12:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozscienceblog.wpengine.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2014-06-23T12:34:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T12:34:55","slug":"software-carpentry-week-in-review-june-9-21-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-science\/software-carpentry-week-in-review-june-9-21-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Carpentry Week in Review: June 9-21, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"whatshappeningthisweek\">What\u2019s happening this week<\/h2>\n<p>The monthly Software Carpentry lab meeting will be this Thursday, June 26th, at 10am and 7pm ET. <a href=\"http:\/\/etherpad.mozilla.org\/swc-labmeeting\">Details are in this Etherpad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"workshops\">Workshops<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Luis Pedro Coelho and Marios Isaakidis <a href=\"http:\/\/luispedro.github.io\/2014-06-10-cyi\">taught a workshop at Cyprus University<\/a> in Nicosia, Cyprus, and <a href=\"http:\/\/luispedro.github.io\/2014-06-15-khbp\">another one<\/a> in Amman, Jordan.<\/li>\n<li>Will Trimble and Elijah Lowe <a href=\"http:\/\/wltrimbl.github.io\/2014-06-10-spelman\/\">taught a workshop at the Spelman College<\/a> in Atlanta, Georgia.<\/li>\n<li>Naupaka Zimmerman, Bernhard Konrad, Dav Clark, and Andrea Zonca <a href=\"http:\/\/bernhardkonrad.github.io\/2014-06-16-davis\">taught a workshop at the Univeristy of California at Davis<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Preston Holmes and Bill Mills <a href=\"http:\/\/ptone.github.io\/2014-06-16-claremont\">taught a workshop at the Claremont Colleges<\/a> in California.<\/li>\n<li>Cliburn Chan, Karen Cranston, and Joshua Granek <a href=\"http:\/\/cliburn.github.io\/2014-06-16-duke\">taught a workshop at Duke University<\/a> in North Carolina.<\/li>\n<li>Pauline Barmby, Jennifer Campbell, and Greg Wilson <a href=\"http:\/\/swcarpentry.github.io\/2014-06-16-toronto\/\">taught a workshop at the Mozilla Toronto<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"upcomingworkshops\">Upcoming workshops<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>June 24\u201325: Rockfeller University, New York.<\/li>\n<li>June 24\u201325: Womem in Science and Engineering, Philadelphia.<\/li>\n<li>June 25\u201326: Univeristy of Reading, UK.<\/li>\n<li>June 26\u201327: University of Notre Dame, Indiana.<\/li>\n<li>Jun 30-Jul 1: Stanford University, California.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"lessondevelopment\">Lesson development<\/h2>\n<p>In these two weeks, 11 pull requests were merged, 6 issues were closed, and 11 issues were opened. In addition to the merges, we had 13 commits made by Greg Wilson, Raniere Silva, Ben Marwick, mestato, and R\u00e9mi Emonet.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"othernews\">Other news<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>ARCHER, the UK\u2019s new national supercomputing service, <a href=\"http:\/\/software-carpentry.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/archer-cranfield-boot-camp.html\">annouced a three-day Software Carpentry bootcamp<\/a> \u201cto master the skills you need before tacking anything with <em>cloud<\/em> or <em>peta<\/em> or <em>HPC<\/em> in their name.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/software-carpentry.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/registration-open-for-norwich.html\">Registration for the instructor training course in Norwich in late October is open<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Bill Mills <a href=\"http:\/\/software-carpentry.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/reflections-on-claremont.html\">wrote in our blog<\/a> a detailed reflection on the way we teach Python.<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Shelton <a href=\"http:\/\/software-carpentry.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/engineering-focused-bootcamp.html\">described in our blog<\/a> his plans to run a engineering focused bootcamp. He is looking for feedback and instructors.<\/li>\n<li>Will Trimble taugth a workshop where students run into a problem using git on Windows, but he had only his Mac to figure it out. His solution: spin an Amazon EC2 instance running Windows, reproduce the issue, and fix it. As a bonus, <a href=\"http:\/\/software-carpentry.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/fixing-14-repositories.html\">he fixed other 14 bootcamp repos.<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Tareq Malas <a href=\"http:\/\/software-carpentry.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/kaust-success-story.html\">wrote in our blog<\/a> about the Python tutorials he is teaching at the KinKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia.<\/li>\n<li>Projects for our July sprint are blooming. See <a href=\"http:\/\/software-carpentry.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/planning-our-summer-sprint.html\">a summary in this<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/software-carpentry.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/update-on-sprint-plans.html\">this posts<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>As part of the July sprint, some people is <a href=\"http::\/software-carpentry.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/translating-software-carpentry-into-spanish.html\">traslating the Software Carpentry novice lessons into Spanish<\/a>. If you want to help, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/franktoffel\/swcarpentry-es\/tree\/master\/translations\/es\">check out this repo<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Also as part of the sprint, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/toolness\/\">Atul Varma<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/software-carpentry.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/help-us-build-an-admin-tool-for-bootcamps.html\">building a tool to administer bootcamps<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"aworkshopneedsyou\">A workshop needs you<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>US and Canada<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>A workshop at workshop at <strong>Stanford University<\/strong> at the end of July needs an instructor. Another instructor is needed at US Department of Agriculture in <strong>Athens, Georgia<\/strong> in September.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Europe<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>At least one instructor is needed for a workshop in <strong>Kiel<\/strong> in Germany, and several for workshops in <strong>Nottingham, Cambridge, and Oxford<\/strong> in the UK.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More details in <a href=\"https:\/\/swcarpentry.etherpad.mozilla.org\/instructors-needed\">the instructor-needed Etherpad<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s happening this week The monthly Software Carpentry lab meeting will be this Thursday, June 26th, at 10am and 7pm ET. Details are in this Etherpad. 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