On 2014-09-09 1:21 PM, Erik Bray wrote:
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/
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Absolutely! Thanks Erik, would love to have TACC along.
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Bill Mills
Community Manager, Mozilla Science Lab
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