And to follow, our post on the next phase of the project (copied below, as well): http://mozillascience.org/announcing-the-software-carpentry-foundation/
Please don’t hesitate to reach out should you have any questions. Thrilled to be a part of this next phase. Best, KT ===== Announcing the Software Carpentry Foundation Posted on October 8, 2014 by Kaitlin Thaney Software Carpentry has been around for a long time, a labor of love of Greg Wilson and many others. With support from the Sloan Foundation, the Mozilla Science Lab has helped it to grow such that, in the past year, we’ve reached more than 4,000 researchers and librarians worldwide and trained over 195 instructors (from the sciences and library sciences) who carry the torch and run Software Carpentry workshops on their own. The expansion of the community makes us excited to announce the creation of an independent Software Carpentry Foundation. This new organization is dedicated to fostering the growth and evolution of Software Carpentry work while giving the hundreds of contributors and institutions who’ve helped shape it a direct role in governing the project. Greg, naturally, is stepping into the project lead role. What this means for you Mozilla Science Lab will continue coordinating bootcamps and train-the-trainer programs, so from a user perspective, nothing really changes. Over time, as the new foundation gets its feet, we may transition some or all of the coordination to it. In the interim Bill Mills, the Science Lab’s community manager (and Software Carpentry instructor) with the help of Arliss Collins, the Lab’s Training Coordinator, will ensure that we keep delivering great programming around the world. If you want to seize the opportunity to play a larger role in the Software Carpentry governance, please reach out to Greg. Mozilla is thrilled to be a partner with the new Software Carpentry Foundation. We believe that this community and the organization has a key role in the building awareness and technical capacity, so critical to the open science movement. Congrats to Greg Wilson and the rest of the Software Carpentry team, and many thanks to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Software Sustainability Institute, the University of Melbourne, the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and NumFOCUS for their support. For more on today’s announcement, read the press release at the Software Carpentry website. Want to get involved in helping train the next generation of open, web-enabled researchers? Get in touch. -- Kaitlin Thaney Director, Mozilla Science Lab @kaythaney ; @MozillaScience skype / IRC: kaythaney On Oct 8, 2014, at 11:05 AM, Greg Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > In order to foster Software Carpentry's continued growth, we are pleased to > announce that we are creating an independent Software Carpentry Foundation > (SCF). Like other non-profit open source foundations, it will decide > Software Carpentry's overall scope and direction, manage finances, and hold > its intellectual property. > > In order to work through the details, we have assembled an interim board > drawn from a wide cross-section of our community: > > - Jenny Bryan (University of British Columbia, Canada) > - Neil Chue Hong (University of Edinburgh / Software Sustainability > Institute, UK) > - Carole Goble (University of Manchester / ELIXIR UK) > - Josh Greenberg (Sloan Foundation, USA, non-voting) > - Katy Huff (University of California Berkeley, USA) > - Damien Irving (University of Melbourne / Research Platforms, Australia) > - Adam Stone (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) > - Tracy Teal (Michigan State / Data Carpentry, USA) > - Kaitlin Thaney (Mozilla Science Lab, USA) > - Greg Wilson (Software Carpentry, Canada) > > This group's mandate is to draft the SCF's initial bylaws and get the > foundation legal standing, then arrange the transition to the first permanent > board some time early in 2015. Until then, we will continue to do what we > have always done: teach scientists and engineers how to use computers to do > more research in less time and with less pain. > > Our thanks to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation, the > Software Sustainability Institute, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Research > Bazaar, and everyone else listed on > http://software-carpentry.org/pages/sponsors.html for their sponsorship, and > to all of our volunteers for making Software Carpentry possible. > > Thanks, > Greg > > -- > Greg Wilson > Software Carpentry | http://www.software-carpentry.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
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