Software Carpentry Week in Review: September 1-7, 2014 What’s happening this week
The Mozilla Science Lab is launching a new initiative to boost collaboration between the different organizations teaching software bootcamps these days: Friday’s Instructor Hangouts. If you are part of Software Carpentry, Ladies Learning Code, rOpenSci, the Center for Open Science, Code4Lib, pyLadies, or a similar tribe, please find the details here <http://mozillascience.org/instructor-hangouts-landing-this-friday/>. Workshops - Alex Viana and Raniere Silva taught not one <http://r-gaia-cs.github.io/2014-09-01-ccsl/> but two <http://r-gaia-cs.github.io/2014-09-04-ccsl/> workshops at the Centro de Competência em Software Livre at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, in Brazil. Upcoming workshops - Set 11–12: University of Delaware. - Set 13–14: University of Waterloo, Canada. - 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 9 commits made by Jonah Duckles, Ethan White, Raniere Silva, Doug Latornell, and John Blischak. Other news - Don’t miss the Nature interview with Kaitlin Thaney <http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/09/nature-interview-with-kaitlin-thaney.html>, Director of the Mozilla Science Lab. She talks about Software Carpentry and new plans for the Mozilla Science Lab. - An instructor training course was announced at UC Davis in next January <http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/09/instructor-training-at-uc-davis-jan-2015.html>. This two-day workshop is the in-person version of our online instructor course. This will be followed by a third day focused on computational biology. - The list of bootcamps for the fall, updated <http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/09/update-on-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. - Greg Wilson wrote in our blog about the book “Building Better Teachers” <http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/09/building-better-teachers.html>. Join the discussion about the book and share your insights on how to improve teaching. A workshop needs you - *US and Canada* - Workshops at *Yale and the University of Toronto* need instructors for coming workshops. Female instructors are needed for a new bootcamp for Women in Science and Enginnering, this time at *the Univeristy of Michigan* in January. - *Europe* - Workshop in the UK, at *Liverpool, Didcot, and Oxford*, need instructors in November. - *Africa* - 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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