thanks, all. know the TACC folks through XSEDE - will reach out. please feel free to invite others, too. open to all.
best, KT -- Kaitlin Thaney Director, Mozilla Science Lab @kaythaney ; @MozillaScience skype / IRC: kaythaney On Sep 10, 2014, at 9:59 AM, "C. Titus Brown" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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