Re: [Discuss] Workshop-specific materials and discussion?
Hi Daisie, thanks for your email and congrats for your first workshop. I noticed, when preparing my materials, that it seemed to be common practice to mix and match the lessons from the ones on the main repo, but I couldn't find any reference to previous materials/versions that other people had used to teach previous workshops. This is one problem when we move from https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/ to https://github.com/swcarpentry/lesson-template/ model. With BC we can always know what version of the lesson was used. In addition, I added some diagrams and writeups that I'd written and found helpful in other contexts to my lessons, but I don't yet feel comfortable making a case for those changes to be integrated into the main repository. I'm sure this must be true for other instructors as well! Back to when I organize workshops starting with https://github.com/swcarpentry/lesson-template/ I created pull requests for small changes made for my workshop before the workshop, normally typos. Raniere pgp8l902bvIhc.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
[Discuss] Mozilla Science Lab Community Call this Thursday
Hi all, We're back March 12 (this Thursday) with this month's Science Lab community call! The call kicks off at 11 ET. Dial in information can be found below. This month, we’ll be hearing from *Shauna Gordon-McKeon* on Open Science Comes to Campus http://www.mozillascience.org/open-science-comes-to-campus/, a workshop she and Bill Mills are working on spinning out of Open Hatch http://openhatch.org/‘s successful Open Source Comes to Campus http://campus.openhatch.org/ series. We’ve lead some community discussions http://discourse.openhatch.org/t/open-science-comes-to-campus-a-planning-thread/80 and brainstorms https://etherpad.mozilla.org/startingOpenScience over the past few weeks on how we can introduce the skills and ideas of open science to undergrads, and we’re ready to start drafting curriculum; Shauna will be updating us on the status of the project, and upcoming plans. Also this month we will be hearing from *Jon Udell* on his current work http://blog.jonudell.net/2015/02/11/online-scientific-collaboration-the-sequel/ to revisit online scientific collaboration, as an update to his seminal work, Internet Groupware for Scientific Collaboration http://jonudell.net/GroupwareReport.html. Jon is looking to speak to researchers in a wide cross-section of fields to better understand how scientists collaborate online today, and will be sharing some details on the project and what he’s looking for on the call on the 12th. Finally, we’re also going to hear from *Ward Cunningham*, original inventor of the wiki concept technology, on Smallest Federated Wiki, his ongoing project http://www.infoworld.com/article/2880204/collaboration-software/wiki-creator-reinvents-collaboration-again.html to reinvent the wiki platform as a ‘chorus of voices http://thegovlab.org/a-modern-wiki-for-a-modern-internet-the-smallest-federated-wiki-on-the-govlabs-demos-for-democracy/‘, via forkable, distributed and creator-owned content. Have an update, blog post or event you’d like to share relevant to open science? Add it to the etherpad : https://etherpad.mozilla.org/sciencelab-calls-mar12-2015 We hope you'll join us. Phone Number: +1 800 707 2533, password 369 Room code (conference number): 7677 Note: you can call the 1-800 number free of charge using Skype or other VoIP clients If you are getting a busy signal, you can try these (non-free) phone numbers (+ the room code 7677): CA/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, extension 92 UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, extension 92 FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, extension 92 CA/Vancouver: +1 778 785-1540, extension 92 US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, extension 92 US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, extension 92 US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, extension 92 -- Best Regards, Bill Mills Community Manager Mozilla Science Lab ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
Re: [Discuss] [Instructors] workshop at Monsanto in St Louis in April
Hi all, I realise I'm very late to the party here but I've been following the discussion and I wanted to add one option which I don't think has been explored yet. First off, an opinion. I don't think SWC should provide volunteer workshops to organisations that are not demonstrably involved in open research. Such an approach is common in organisations such as PRACE and XSEDE who distribute supercomputing cycles on publicly funded resources to promising research. That being said, I do not have a problem with someone like Monsanto sending some of their science team to attend instructor training, especially since they are required to volunteer at a workshop to actually get their badge. The material they need to instruct in-house is freely available to them because of SWCs open licencing without SWC having to lend their name to that effort. My opinion is that this approach is also much more likely to generate meaningful engagement if they do see value in SWC since you will have someone inside the organisation to champion your cause. Kind regards, Alan On 9 Mar 2015 17:58, Ivan Gonzalez igl...@gmail.commailto:igl...@gmail.com wrote: El 08/03/2015, a las 12:03, John Blischak jdblisc...@uchicago.edumailto:jdblisc...@uchicago.edu escribió: Certainly a highly trained SWC instructor, who typically has at least a bachelor's degree plus some advanced training, leading a workshop to teach employees of a company to use computational tools would not pass this test. http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/13/are-unpaid-internships-illegal/ What are the policies of other countries? Have they passed similar legislation? We have a similar lawn Spain. The law prevents Monsanto from hiring an instructor for free or peanuts, as the benefit of the teaching goes mostly to Monsanto, and not to the instructor. It even applies to graduate work: the Supreme Court has ruled that if you're doing a PhD, which in principle would be ok to be unpaid because you're getting a degree, you must have an employment contract under Labour Law after the first two years. That is because it's understood that from the third year the benefits the university gets form your work as a student overcome those you get from your PhD studies. However, it's completely legal that Monsanto hires SWC to teach the workshop and that you volunteer for the non-profit SWC. Nobody gets paid, beyond reimbursements or fees, and the teaching fits under the reasons for which SWC is a non-profit. If you get paid though, it may get tricky, and not for Monsanto. You could claim that you *work* for SWC (because you are getting paid, not just reimbursed), so you are a SWC employee working without an employment contract, not paying social security taxes, etc… It may be different in the US, but in my opinion having paid instructors by default would be a huge administrative burden, specially if we want to expand to other countries with an international pool of instructors under many different immigration status. In my opinion, the simplest solution, leaving aside the ethical part, would be charge a flat fee as we do know and then, after the workshop, have someone call these wealthy companies and schools asking for an extra donation. This scales better than changing the default and allows to really pick the wealthy ones without misguided preconceptions. Best, Ivan ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.orgmailto:Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Marquardt (Vorsitzender), Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
[Discuss] testing scientific software revisited
Hi everyone, Following on from last November's discussion (see http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/10/why-we-dont-teach-testing.html), Ian Hawke has put together some notebooks to test some scientific code. He'd be grateful for comments - the link to the GitHub repo is below, and you can view the notebooks themselves at http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/IanHawke/close-enough-balloons/tree/master/. Thanks (and thanks to Ian), Greg Dear Greg, Lorena, Your discussion from back in October/November has been nagging away that the back of my mind. In a classic example of missing the wood for the trees, I have some answers as to when the convergence rate is close enough to 1 in Euler's method: https://github.com/IanHawke/close-enough-balloons I need to tidy up the bits of the last notebook and put more cross-references in; in the meantime, please give me any comments you might have before I actually try and turn them into blog posts. Thanks, Ian ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
