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</style><title>Software Carpentry Week in Review: March 3-9, 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-march-3-9-2014/"><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass" contenteditable="false"><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareSharedContentClass" style="position: relative !important; " applecontenteditable="true"><div><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;"><p><em>“@swcarpentry Thanking the Heavens for me being in the car when I heard your CBC segment. As a hydrogeologist that’s exactly what we need”, <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeChristieTO/status/441306785731723264">Mike Christie on Twitter</a>, after listening <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/02/software-carpentry-on-the-cbc.html">Greg Wilson’s interview on the radio</a> last week.</em></p>
<h1 class="clear">What’s happening next week</h1>
<p>Registration for Software Carpentry bootcamps at PyCon in Montreal is open. Everyone is welcome, not only PyCon attendees. <a href="https://twitter.com/pycon/status/442791570333777921">Retweet to let your friends know!</a></p>
<p>There will be <strong>three bootcamps</strong> on April 14–15:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/03/bootcamp-for-librarians-at-pycon.html">a workshop for librarians</a>,</li>
<li><a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/montreal-software-carpentry-bootcamp-registration-10151376039">our regular bootcamp for scientists</a>, and</li>
<li><a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/03/instructor-training-at-pycon.html">two one-day sessions on how to teach programming</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>In addition, there will be <strong>two master classes</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://swcarpentry.github.io/2014-04-14-pycon-ngs/">Master class on next-generation genome sequencing</a> by Prof. Titus Brown on April 14th, and</li>
<li><a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/r-for-programmers-registration-10319320365">R for Python programmers</a> by Prof. Ramnath Vaidyanathan on April 15th.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://pycon.blogspot.ca/2014/02/software-carpentry-at-pycon.html">Register</a> now!</p>
<h1 class="clear">Upcoming bootcamps</h1>
<ul>
<li>03/10 : University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA USA,</li>
<li>03/17 : New York University, New York, NY USA, (<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nyu-center-for-data-science-software-carpentry-workshop-registration-10435144799">open seats</a>),</li>
<li>03/17 : University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA,</li>
<li>03/17 : University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA,</li>
<li>03/17 : Purdue University, Lafayette IN, USA.</li>
</ul>
<h1 class="clear">Lesson development</h1>
<p>3 pull requests were merged, 1 issue was closed, and 16 issues were opened. In addition to the merges, we had 22 commits made by Philipp Bayer, Raniere Silva, Denis Haine, W. Trevor King, Damien Irving, Aron Ahmadia, Greg Wilson, and Erik Bray.</p>
<h1 class="clear">Other news</h1>
<ul>
<li>There are spots left in our <a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/software-carpentry-instructor-training-registration-9481333925">three-day in-person instructor training course</a> to be held in Toronto on April 28–30.</li>
<li>If you are interested in reproducibility issues in computational research, check out <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/03/reproducibility-workshop-at-xsede.html">the reproducibility workshop at XSEDE.</a></li>
<li>Aleksandra Pawlik <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/03/ssi-collaborations-workshop.html">wrote on the blog</a> about the annual Collaborations Workshop of the Software Sustainability Institute at the end of March in Oxford, UK. They will also have a hackday: 24 hours of coding fueled by pizza, prizes for best hackers.</li>
<li>Workshops in the coming months need instructors and helpers. Open spots for <strong>Toronto</strong> and <strong>Vancouver</strong> in Canada, <strong>Cold Spring Harbor</strong> and <strong>Ithaca</strong> in New York, <strong>Paris</strong> in France, <strong>Pisa</strong> in Italy, <strong>Atlanta</strong> in Georgia, the <strong>Federal Reserve</strong> (!) in Washington, and <strong>Brisbane</strong> in Australia. Please check the details in <a href="https://swcarpentry.etherpad.mozilla.org/instructors-needed">this Etherpad</a>.</li>
</ul>
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