[Discuss] Should we use reticulate?

Hi all Raniere Silva has posted a new blog on whether to use reticulate to render code chunks in our lesson templates https://carpentries.org/blog/2018/05/reticulate/ Raniere is keen for discussion on this so feel free to weigh in. regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community and Communications

[Discuss] Programmatic assessment

and workshops - further analyses and contributions welcome: https://carpentries.org/blog/2018/05/programmatic-assessment/ cheers Belinda Belinda Weaver Community and Communications Lead The Carpentries e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus

[Discuss] Closing date for CarpentryCon abstracts

://www.carpentrycon.org/#prog or buy tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/carpentrycon-2018-tickets-42447719271 Standard registration closes 11 May so buy tickets before then to save $50! regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community and Communications Lead The Carpentries e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408

[Discuss] New website for The Carpentries

g/>. We also have our new merged Twitter feed. Follow The Carpentries on Twitter <https://twitter.com/thecarpentries>. regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community and Communications Lead The Carpentries e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus __

[Discuss] Geospatial and social science lessons update

://www.datacarpentry.org/blog/geo-socsci-update/ regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community and Communications Lead The Carpentries e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software

[Discuss] Have your say on Software Carpentry future

the info you need to respond: https://software-carpentry.org/blog/2018/03/community-identity.html cheers Belinda Belinda Weaver Community and Communications Lead The Carpentries e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus ___ Discuss

[Discuss] Tractenberg seminar

meeting is 23 March - see here for details: http://pad.software-carpentry.org/assessment-network regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community and Communications Lead The Carpentries e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus ___ Discuss

[Discuss] On campus accommodation for CarpentryCon

are singles with ensuite bathrooms. See the website for details and the booking link http://www.carpentrycon.org/#accom Rate is €69 per night for a single ensuite room. Better be quick ! cheers Belinda Belinda Weaver Community and Communications Lead The Carpentries e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p

[Discuss] Call for Curriculum Advisory Committee involvement / DC/SWC

here: http://www.datacarpentry.org/blog/curriculum-advisory/ regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community and Communications Lead The Carpentries e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software

[Discuss] Update about Library Carpentry project

-governance.html The interim governance group are also discussing onboarding for those instructors in our community who might want to teach this material. Please get in touch if this sounds like you ! regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea

[Discuss] Carpentry Champions

Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss

[Discuss] New Carpentries logo

: and it will appear. Have fun with it ! cheers Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http

Re: [Discuss] CarpentryCon ticketing is now open

need to develop a process and it will be raised at our weekly taskforce meeting, so all I can say at this stage is stay tuned! If people on the list have ideas of what our criteria should be for assessing hardship, please send those ideas through. cheers Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development

[Discuss] CarpentryCon ticketing is now open

Hi all You can now buy tickets to CarpentryCon - visit the site: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/carpentrycon-2018-tickets-42447719271 Details of what is included is here: http://www.carpentrycon.org/#rego cheers Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e

Re: [Discuss] New report might be of interest

develop* https://github.com/carpentries/commons/blob/master/text-for-maintainers.md *Skills Instructor Trainers develop* https://github.com/carpentries/commons/blob/master/text-for-trainers.md Comments welcome! regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry

[Discuss] Transition from NumFOCUS to Community Initiatives

announcment here: http://www.datacarpentry.org/blog/fiscal-sponsor-transition/ regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

[Discuss] New report might be of interest

Hi all Some of you may be interested in the results of the state of machine learning and data science survey 2017: https://www.kaggle.com/surveys/2017 cheers Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t

[Discuss] CarpentryCon website

Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo

Re: [Discuss] Library Carpentry question

in the US - Tim Dennis from UCLA and I trained a librarian cohort in Portland OR last year, so there may be people not too far away who can help out. I am happy to talk to anyone who is thinking about it. cheers Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea

[Discuss] Library Carpentry question

. regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo

[Discuss] Get into CarpentryCon for nothing - design a poster

something like this easy. https://software-carpentry.org/blog/2017/12/cc-poster-comp.html The weekend is coming up ! regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus

Re: [Discuss] Webinar with Dr Rochelle Tractenberg

Hi Karin I've asked Karen Word about recording and we are investigating the logistics and possibilities of that now. We will post again to the list once we know either way. cheers Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61

[Discuss] Community calls on hiatus

today. If you should have an idea about a speaker or a one-off event that you would like to run by me, I am happy to hear it ! We can still schedule calls if and when there is a need. cheers Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org

[Discuss] Nominate what you want to see at CarpentryCon

/1FAIpQLSf240S9YQmd1y0z3uc0PuWDSzXKDC3DG-WYYQjURWpdWkk1SA/viewform There is space to add your own ideas and suggestions. The carpentrycon website is here in case you haven't seen it: http://www.carpentrycon.org/ regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61

Re: [Discuss] Who to contact regarding using SWC materials?

I have received no replies, so here I am. Thank you for your time, Pey Lian Lim Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.so

[Discuss] Anelda van der Walt is our Community Service Award winner for 2017

. Congratulations and well done Anelda for what is a well deserved award! http://www.datacarpentry.org/blog/csa-award-avdw/ regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus

[Discuss] Assessing training for data science

<https://software-carpentry.org/blog/2017/12/assessing-data-science.html> Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@li

[Discuss] Response to "Null effects of bootcamps ..." paper

null-effects/ Comments are welcome. regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpen

[Discuss] Great post to motivate someone from Excel to R

://www.jessesadler.com/post/new-kinds-of-projects/ regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org

[Discuss] Postdoc fellowshop opportunity at UC Merced

tact Emily Lin, Head of Digital Curation and Scholarship: e...@ucmerced.edu. Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.soft

[Discuss] RSE survey - please share

this to others). regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software

[Discuss] Membership webinar

the details of connecting are on this etherpad: http://pad.software-carpentry.org/membership-webinars regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus

[Discuss] Five ways to fix statistics

Hi all Some of you might be interested in this Nature piece by five different people on fixing stats: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07522-z?WT.mc_id=TWT_NA_1711_FHCOMMENTFIXSTATS_PORTFOLIO regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea

[Discuss] On not touching people's devices

Hi all Just saw this tweeted - https://sec.eff.org/articles/touching-devices Interesting piece on why taking over someone's device is a no-no. regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus

[Discuss] Meet the candidates for new merged Steering Committee

-carpentry.org/blog/2017/11/2018-sc-election-fournier.html regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software

[Discuss] Nominate for Board of merged Carpentries

- October 23: nominations open - November 16: nominees can introduce themselves on community calls - December 1: nominations close - December 4-8: community votes on candidates This was posted here: https://software-carpentry.org/blog/2017/10/call-new-joint-board.html Belinda Weaver Communit

[Discuss] CarpentryCon2018 will be in Dublin!

ts low and to provide travel scholarships. You can read all about it here: http://www.datacarpentry.org/blog/carpcon-announce/ cheers Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cl

[Discuss] Hacky Hour handbook

at their local institution. Comments and contributions welcome. https://github.com/amandamiotto/HackyHourHandbook https://twitter.com/AmandaMiottoGU https://twitter.com/hackyhourGU https://hackyhourgriffith.wordpress.com/ regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data

Re: [Discuss] using the DC ecology Python lesson in place of the SWC Python for SWC workshop

of our lessons, but a Software Carpentry workshop must teach shell, git and a programming language to be the real deal. I just wanted to clarify this in case people were not aware of it. regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org |

[Discuss] Please share information about your favourite tool

s/d/e/1FAIpQLSeiu5NzJsLxYueaQrNn_qKbaa5JR2Sz12CeCRyedKQxwb54Dw/viewform> with some prompts for you to fill in. Details here: https://software-carpentry.org/blog/2017/10/fave-tools.html Happy to help if you need assistance gathering your thoughts! regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Devel

[Discuss] Teaching R

the most useful things. Thanls Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software

[Discuss] Advanced workshop to embed skills in a dsicpline

idea and the capstone. He tweets as @DrClimate. regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software

Re: [Discuss] Local SWC Websites

JekyllNow workflow (https://github.com/barryclark/jekyll-now) - takes about ten minutes tops to create a blog, and it is really easy to update. I doubt there is much easier than that as a way forward for this kind of site. regards Belinda   Belinda Weaver eResearch Analyst Team Leader Queensland