Thanks Jason - your webinar is top of my list to watch in light of coronavirus! It's likely online teaching will have huge attention; i certainly expect that to come up in any community discussions over the next few months. Considering now about particularly themed community discussions.
cheers, Liz *Liz Stokes* Senior Research Data Skills Specialist *P* +61 2 9514 3674 *M* +61 421 427 968 [email protected] *Tw* @ragamouf <https://twitter.com/ragamouf> *ardc.edu.au <http://ardc.edu.au>* University of Technology Sydney Level 2, UTS Library (CB05A.02.29) Haymarket, New South Wales 2007, AUSTRALIA <https://twitter.com/ands_nectar_rds> <https://www.youtube.com/user/andsdata> ARDC acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands that we live and work on across Australia and pays its respect to Elders past and present. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 15:14, Jason Bell <[email protected]> wrote: > G’day Software Carpentry colleagues > > > > With the COVID-19 virus causing great concern, I am aware of a number of > precautionary measures being applied globally to help reduce the spread of > this virus. Some of these measures include: events cancellation, travel > bands, increase in workforce working from home or being placed in > self-isolation, it is my personal opinion that this will have a flow on > affect to software carpentry workshops. I am not aware of any software > carpentry workshops that have been cancelled because of this virus yet, but > I believe that it is a matter of when, not if, that some workshops will be > cancelled. > > > > With a desire to increase social distance of the general population, the > interest in the use of virtual environments for training, presentations and > general meetings it rising rapidly. Because I believe strongly in what > software carpentry is trying to achieve and I have personally seen my local > participants benefitting from software carpentry workshops, I want to > highlight my experiences from running virtual software carpentry workshops > in Australia! I believe that virtual workshops may provide a viable > alternative to the carpentries standard “face-to-face” workshops. Two > weeks ago, on behalf of ARDC, CQUniversity and QCIF, I provided a > presentation on “*Virtual Software Carpentry Workshops - key learnings to > make it a success*” (which can now be viewed on YouTube > https://youtu.be/MzsJyOkxqv8--) that I am hoping might be of interest to > some of you within the Software Carpentry community. > > > > Please don’t take this email the wrong way and I am not looking to create > additional fears or concerns – I am just hoping that some of my experiences > from running virtual software carpentry workshops might be of value to some > of you, particularly those who may be considering alternative workshop > delivery options. > > > > If you have any questions, you are welcomed to email me, or send me a > message on the carpentry slack channel. > > > > Many thanks for your time, > > Jason. > > > > > > <https://www.cqu.edu.au/> > > *Jason Bell* > > Senior Research Technologies Officer | Information and Technology > Directorate > > CQUniversity eResearch Analyst | Queensland Cyber Infrastructure > Foundation (QCIF) > CQUniversity Australia, Building 19 Room 1.07, Bruce Highway, Rockhampton > QLD 4702 > *P* +61 7 4930 9229 *| X* 59229 *| M* 0409 630 897 |* E *[email protected] > > <https://www.cqu.edu.au/social-media> > > This communication may contain privileged or confidential information. If > you have received this in error, > > please return to sender and delete. CRICOS: 00219C | RTO Code 40939 > > > > > > > > *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/T19273d8aadd8d57f-M88d4e46ba6b1de6d4431f41d> > ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T19273d8aadd8d57f-M0ff6cc5b84f6e9dcd9038832 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
