Re: [Discuss] Workshop-specific materials and discussion?

2015-03-10 Thread Raniere Silva
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

[Discuss] Mozilla Science Lab Community Call this Thursday

2015-03-10 Thread Bill Mills
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

Re: [Discuss] [Instructors] workshop at Monsanto in St Louis in April

2015-03-10 Thread Alan O'Cais
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

[Discuss] testing scientific software revisited

2015-03-10 Thread Greg Wilson
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