On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Bill Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > So - there is a growing number of groups offering software bootcamps these > days! The Mozilla Science Lab would like to offer a space for communication > and idea-sharing between all these projects, and we're starting with a new > regular event this Friday, Instructor Hangouts: > http://mozillascience.org/instructor-hangouts-landing-this-friday/ > > We're inviting instructors and contributors from Software Carpentry, Ladies > Learning Code, rOpenSci, the Center for Open Science, Code4Lib, pyLadies and > more to talk about strategies and challenges in teaching software workshops. > We'd be thrilled if SWC instructors and contributors would like to join the > discussion, or propose topics of conversation for the hangouts this Friday; > we'll be hosting these hangouts every two weeks, so if you can't make it > then, feel free to join in at the next event. We're hoping that offering a > meeting space where all the different workshop groups can swap stories and > experiences will help us all learn from each other, and augment the > SWC-specific instructor meetups that Greg blogged about recently when those > spool up separately. Let me know any ideas on how to make this work for > you!
We just had an interesting talk this morning from Niall Gaffney from TACC [1], who among other things talked about the outreach and training they're doing for scientists to use their supercomputers, but which also includes a lot of basics of the sort software carpentry covers. I actually meant to talk to him later about if there was any interest in cross-sharing with Software Carpentry on lesson material and/or instructor training. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow. Just thought it would be another institution worth inviting to talk. Erik [1] https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
