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</style><title>Software Carpentry Week in Review: February 16-22, 2014. | Mozilla Science Lab</title></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><base href="http://mozillascience.org/software-carpentry-week-in-review-february-16-22-2014/"><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass" contenteditable="false"><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareSharedContentClass" style="position: relative !important; " applecontenteditable="true"><div id="article" role="article" style="-webkit-locale: en; border-bottom-width: 0px;"><div class="page" style="font-family: Georgia, Palatino, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px;"><h1 class="title"><em style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; ">“My whole work life the last two years has been trying to achieve what git does”, <a href="http://twitter.com/adaptive_plant/status/435995291536203776">Daniel Falster on Twitter</a>, quoting feedback from the workshop he taught this week at the University of Technology Sidney.</em></h1>
<h2 class="clear">What’s happening next week</h2>
<p>We are holding an online lab meeting for Software Carpentry this week. Everyone is welcome to attend to either of these sessions:</p>
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<li><em>this Wednesday</em>, Feb 26, at 8 pm, or</li>
<li><em>this Thursday</em>, Feb 27, at 11 am.</li>
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<p>Both are Eastern time and the meeting will last an hour. Feel free to add your thoughts and items to the <a href="https://etherpad.mozilla.org/swc-labmeeting">lab etherpad</a>, and look there on the day for connection details.</p>
<h2 class="clear">Workshops</h2>
<p>Three workshops happened this week:</p>
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<li>James Hetherington, Owain Kenway, Miguel Bernabeu Llinares, and Mayeul d’Avezac, taught a <a href="http://apawlik.github.io/2014-02-18-UCL">workshop for the University College London</a> faculty and staff.</li>
<li>Daniel Falster, Rich FitzJohn, and Diego Barneche taught a <a href="http://nicercode.github.io/2014-02-18-UTS">R-based workshop at the University of Technology in Sidney</a>, Australia.</li>
<li>Stefano Cozzini and Kwasi Kwakwa taught a <a href="http://swcarpentry.github.io/2014-02-18-aims">workshop at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences</a> in Biriwa, Ghana.</li>
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<h2 class="clear">Lesson development</h2>
<p>8 pull requests were merged, 15 issues were closed, and 6 issues were opened. In addition to the merges, we had 23 commits made by Justin Kitzes, Raniere Silva, David Rio Deiros, Bill Mills, Greg Wilson, and John Blischak.</p>
<p>You can always help Software Carpentry by contributing to the lesson repository. Take a look to the <a href="https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/issues?state=open">open issues</a> or open a new one to fix/improve/extend something in our lessons.</p>
<h2 class="clear">Other news</h2>
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<li>In the aftermath of last week’s tutorials on how to setup a workshop repository, <a href="http://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/issues/337">Greg is asking for feedback</a>. In case you missed it live or for a quick refresh before a workshop, note that you can always <a href="http://vimeo.com/87241285">watch the recorded version</a>.</li>
<li>The paper <a href="http://f1000research.com/articles/3-62/v1">“Software Carpentry: Lessons learned” has been published on F1000 Research</a>. The paper summarizes the 15-year-long trip of Software Carpentry and the lessons learned on the road. Read about it <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/02/f1000-lessons-learned.html">on the blog</a>.</li>
<li>Greg Wilson <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/02/the-bigger-picture.html">wrote on the blog</a> on how Software Carpentry’s main <em>activity</em>, teaching workshops to scientists, is framed on Software Carpentry’s main <em>goal</em>, make science more open.</li>
<li>What else is needed for code reuse? Add your thoughts <a href="https://github.com/mozillascience/code-research-object/issues/2">to this issue</a> on the <a href="http://mozillascience.org/what-else-is-needed-for-code-reuse/">Science Lab’s work towards a best practice</a> for their collaboration around <a href="http://mozillascience.org/code-as-a-research-object-a-new-project/">code as a research object</a>.</li>
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