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
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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/
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