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</style><title>Software Carpentry Week in Review: March 10-16, 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-10-16-2014/"><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;"><h2 class="clear">What’s happening next week</h2>
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<li>The Mozilla Science Lab community call <a href="http://mozillascience.org/join-us-for-our-next-community-call-on-march-20-11-et/">will take place this Thursday</a> at 11 am EST. Callers outside the US should note that, due to daylight saving, 11 am EST in your local time may be different than usual. Find the details in <a href="https://etherpad.mozilla.org/sciencelab-calls-mar20-2014">this etherpad</a>.</li>
<li>Software Carpentry is running <a href="http://swcarpentry.github.io/2014-04-14-wise/">a bootcamp for women in science and engineering at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab</a> on April 14–15th. This is the second edition after <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2013/07/wise-roundup.html">last year’s event in Boston</a>. There is still <a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/wise-san-francisco-software-carpentry-bootcamp-registration-10121606999">a few spots left</a>. Help by spreading the word among your female colleagues.</li>
<li>We are running a<strong> four</strong> simultaneous workshops this week: big thanks to all the instructors and helpers that made this possible.</li>
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<h2 class="clear">Workshops</h2>
<p>One workshop happened last week:</p>
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<li>Michael Hansen, Stephen Turner, and Erik Bray taught a <a href="http://synesthesiam.github.io/2014-03-10-uva/">workshop at the University of Virginia</a>, in Charlottesville. In addition to the usual curriculum, they also covered make and pandas.</li>
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<h3 class="clear">Upcoming/This Week’s Workshops</h3>
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<li>03/17 : New York University, New York, NY USA.</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>
<li>04/02 : University of Victoria, Victoria, BC Canada.</li>
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<h2 class="clear">Lesson Development</h2>
<p>8 pull requests were merged, 8 issues were closed, and 3 issues were opened. In addition to the merges, we had 17 commits made by Raniere Silva, Trevor W. King, and Greg Wilson.</p>
<h2 class="clear">Other News</h2>
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<li>Aleksandra Pawlik <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/03/tgac-bootcamp.html">made a nice recap on the blog</a> of the first Software Carpentry bootcamp at the Genome Analysis Center in Norwich, UK.</li>
<li>Justin Kitzes <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/03/collaborative-lesson-development.html">wrote an opinion post</a> on why collaborative development of lessons and curricula is not as popular as collaborative coding or writing.</li>
<li>There is an <a href="https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/pull/375">open issue in our main repo</a> to comment which are the tools that used to manage data analysis pipelines. Feel free to contribute.</li>
<li>Greg Wilson <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/03/von-neumann-quote.html">noticed a letter from Von Neuman</a> written in 1952 where the famous mathematician laments that people does not read other people’s code.</li>
<li>Greg also wrote two opinion pieces on the blog: one about some <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/03/everything-old-is-new-again.html">old tools that becoming new again</a>, and another about <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/03/you-and-jimi-hendrix.html">improvisation, Software Carpentry, and Jimi Hendrix</a>.</li>
<li>Workshops for the spring and summer need instructors and helpers. If you’re close to <strong>North Carolina</strong>, they need an instructor for a workshop at Duke University in June. Another instructor is needed for <strong>Pisa</strong> in Italy for a workshop also in June. In adittion, 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>the Federal Reserve</strong> in Washington, and Atlanta in Georgia. Please check the details in <a href="https://swcarpentry.etherpad.mozilla.org/instructors-needed">this Etherpad</a> or contact Amy and Arliss.</li>
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