Congrats, Greg! As usual, lots of exciting things happening at Software Carpentry, keep up the good work!
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:05 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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