Software Carpentry Week in Review: August 25-31, 2014 What’s happening this week
Damien Irving and others have started writing the Software Carpentry lessons in Matlab. This will be the third computer language taught at our workshops, after Python and R. They are looking for more people to join the effort. More info below. Workshops - Damien Irving, Scott Kolbe, Isabell Kiral-Kornek, and Bernard Meade finished teaching a three-day workshop at the University of Melbourne <http://resbaz.github.io/2014-08-18-unimelb/> in Australia. The workshop was Matlab-based. - Karl Broman, Matt Gidden, Daijiang Li, Lauren Michael, and Paul Wilson, with the help of Anthony Scopatz, taught a workshop at the University of Wisconsin-Madison <http://uw-madison-aci.github.io/2014-08-25-wisc/>. - Rob Beagrie and Thomas Kluyver, with the help of Jelena Aleksic and David Molnar, taught a workshop at Cambridge University <http://rbeagrie.github.io/2014-08-26-cam/>. - Alex Viana and Raniere Silva keep teaching a series of workshops in Brazil: this week at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul <http://acviana.github.io/2014-08-28-ufrgs/>. Upcoming workshops - Set 1–2 and 3–4: Centro de Competência em Software Livre, São Paulo, Brazil. - Set 11–12: University of Delaware. - Set 15–25: University of Melbourne, Australia. - Set 16–17: Imperial College, London, UK. - Set 18–19: University of Chicago. Lesson development During this week, 7 pull requests were merged, 3 issues were closed, and 4 issues were opened. In addition to the merges, we had commits made by Christian Jacobs, Ethan White, Raniere Silva, Daniel Chen, and John Blischak. Other news - Damien Irving talks in our blog <http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/08/matlab-review.html> about his recent experience teaching the Matlab bootcamp at Melbourne and proposes to develop Software Carpentry lessons in Matlab. Please take at look at his detailed post and join their Matlab mailing list <http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/matlab-discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org> to be up to date on this effort. - Rob Beagrie writes in our blog <http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/08/cambridge-university-bootcamp.html> about the workshop he taught last week at Cambridge. If you are planning to teach using virtual machines, be sure to take a look to learn from his experience. - The fall looks full of Software Carpentry workshops, as you can see in our schedule for the next couple of months <http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/08/fall-2014-bootcamps.html>. If you want to host one, fill up our request form <http://software-carpentry.org/bootcamps/request.html> to get in started. A workshop needs you - *US and Canada* - Workshops at *Harvard, Yale, the University of Toronto*, and *the US Department of Agriculture in Athens*, Georgia, need instructors during the next two months. - *Europe and Africa* - Workshop in the UK, at *Liverpool, Didcot, and Oxford*, need instructors in November. - Two instructors needed for a workshop in *Cape Town* in November. More details in the instructor-needed Etherpad <https://swcarpentry.etherpad.mozilla.org/instructors-needed>.
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