On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 04:21:55PM -0400, 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.
Also FYI, iPlant also does a lot of training and is a TACC collaborator. They are in touch with the Data Carpentry initiative as well as Software Carpentry, but only loosely. cheers, --titus _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
