Hey Erin... I'm psyched for this and I'm sure many others are as well. One question on the etherpad, is the 2018-09-27 actually Thursday? The etherpad says Tuesday.
Thanks, Lejo On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:26 AM Erin Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > We are excited to announce the first release of the *long-awaited Data > Carpentry Geospatial lessons* > <https://datacarpentry.org/geospatial-workshop/>. As with all newly > developed curricula, this lesson is still in ‘beta’. This means we are > actively organizing pilot workshops and collecting feedback. The lesson > Maintainers and Carpentries staff will continue to update and improve the > lesson based on feedback from Instructors and learners. > > This R-based workshop: > > · introduces project organisation and management for spatial data > > · covers common data structures and storage and transfer formats > > · teaches the creation of summary statistics and > publication-quality graphics > > · helps users work with and plot vector and raster format spatial > data in R. > > Find more information on *the workshop homepage* > <https://datacarpentry.org/geospatial-workshop/>. > > For this first release, we are looking for Instructors who want to teach > it – we will onboard you to help you get started – and institutions who > would like to pilot a workshop for their researchers. > > Sign up for an onboarding session on *this Etherpad* > <https://pad.carpentries.org/geospatial-onboarding>. If you want to pilot > a geospatial workshop at your institution, you can *request a workshop > here* <https://amy.software-carpentry.org/forms/dc/request/>. > > > You can also self-organise a geospatial workshop. Use *our checklists* > <https://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/hosts_instructors/index.html> > to help you plan and organise it. > > > The new lessons were developed by the Carpentry community. A big thanks to > the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) for hosting the 2016 > hackathon that kickstarted these lessons, and thanks to the many > contributors along the way who have got the lessons ready for teaching > broadly. Read the blog post > <https://datacarpentry.org/blog/2018/08/geospatial-launch> for more > details. > > Best, > Erin > > *The Carpentries <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/latest>* / discuss / > see discussions <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + > participants <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + > delivery > options <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription> > Permalink > <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T8539168dc765dd99-M14cacf6ccc0cd68be0c7a46a> > -- Alejandro N. Flores, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences Director, leaf at Boise State ERB-4151 Boise State University 1910 University Dr. Boise, ID 83725-1535 Phone: 208-426-2903 Cell: 208-570-3097 Fax: 208-426-4061 http://leaf.boisestate.edu/ [email protected] ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T8539168dc765dd99-M6bf96dacfc755d41564cd678 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
