Hi all,

Software Carpentry is aiming to ship a new version (5.4) of the Software
Carpentry lessons by the end of June. To help get us over the finish line
we are having a Bug BBQ on June 13th to squash as many bugs as we can
before we publish the lessons. The June 13th Bug BBQ is also an opportunity
for you to engage with our world-wide community. For more info about the
event, read-on and visit our Bug BBQ website [1].

How can you participate? We’re asking you, members of the Software
Carpentry community, to spend a few hours on June 13th to wrap up
outstanding tasks to improve the lessons. Ahead of the event, the lesson
maintainers will be creating milestones to identify all the issues and pull
requests that need to be resolved we wrap up version 5.4. In addition to
specific fixes laid out in the milestones, we also need help to proofread
and bugtest the lessons.

Where will this be? Join in from where you are: No need to go anywhere - if
you’d like to participate remotely, start by having a look at the
milestones on the website [1] to see what tasks are still open, and send a
pull request with your ideas to the corresponding repo. If you’d like to
get together with other people working on these lessons live, we have
created this map [2] for live sites that are being organized. And if
there’s no site listed near you, organize one yourself and let us know you
are doing that here [3] so that we can add your site to the map!

The Bug BBQ is going to be a great chance to get the community together,
get our latest lessons over the finish line, and wrap up a product that
gives you and all our contributors credit for your hard work with a citable
object - we will be minting a DOI for this on publication.

[1] http://swcarpentry.github.io/SWC-bug-bbq/
[2] https://github.com/swcarpentry/SWC-bug-bbq/blob/gh-pages/sites.geojson
[3] https://github.com/swcarpentry/SWC-bug-bbq/issues

-- 
Tiffany A. Timbers, PhD
Banting Postdoctoral fellow, Leroux Lab
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6

604-803-4962

[email protected]
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