Dear Greg, Kay, Software Carpentry, Congratulations on your non-profit incorporation! So where is the "donate" button?
Cheers, Carl On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Kaitlin Thaney <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- Carl Boettiger UC Santa Cruz http://carlboettiger.info/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
