Congrats to Greg, Kaitlin, Mozilla Science Lab, and all of the awesome Software Carpentry instructors and material contributors. It's super exciting that we've gotten to the point that Software Carpentry can stand on it's own!
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Matt Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >
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