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</style><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="safari-resource:/WBSReaderSharedStyleSheet.css" id="article-content-shared"><title>Software Carpentry Week in Review: March 24-30, 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-24-30-2014/"><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 this week</h2>
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<li>There are some <strong>open spaces</strong> at the Pycon bootcamps. <a href="http://gvwilson.github.io/2014-04-14-pycon-lib/">Librarians</a>, <a href="http://swcarpentry.github.io/2014-04-14-pycon-r/">aspiring R programmers</a>, <a href="http://swcarpentry.github.io/2014-04-14-pycon-ngs/">bioinformaticians</a>, and <a href="http://gvwilson.github.io/2014-04-14-pycon-teach/">programming teachers</a> can find a matching event. <a href="http://pycon.blogspot.ca/2014/02/software-carpentry-at-pycon.html">Register here</a>.</li>
<li>There are also some <strong>open spaces</strong> at <a href="http://swcarpentry.github.io/2014-04-14-wise/">the Women in Science and Engineering bootcamp at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab</a>, in Berkeley. This bootcamp is free and open to anyone who identifies as a female. <a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/software-carpentry-for-women-in-science-and-engineering-san-francisco-registration-10121606999">Register here</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="clear">Workshops</h2>
<ul>
<li>Damien Irving taught <a href="http://resbaz.github.io/2014-03-18-combine/">a Python workshop in the University of Melbourne for researchers in Bioinformatics</a>. Instead of using our usual two-day schedule, this workshop spread out in four mornings along two weeks.</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="clear">Upcoming workshops</h3>
<ul>
<li>04/02: University of Victoria, Victoria BC CAN.</li>
<li>04/03: University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.</li>
<li>04/04: University of Oklahoma, Norman OK USA.</li>
<li>04/07: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder CO USA.</li>
<li>04/14: PyCon Bootcamps, Montreal QC CAN.</li>
<li>04/14: Women in Science and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley CA USA.</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="clear">Lesson development</h2>
<p>6 pull requests were merged, 8 issues were closed, and 2 issues were opened. In addition to the merges, we had 42 commits made by Sarah Supp, uiuc-cse, Daniel Chen, David Rio, Stephen Turner, Diego Barneche, Philipp Bayer, Erik Bray, Raniere Silva, and Greg Wilson.</p>
<h2 class="clear">Other news</h2>
<ul>
<li>Our <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/03/announcing-april-2014-lab-meeting.html">next Software Carpentry Lab Meeting will be on April 24th</a>.</li>
<li>Last week on our Software Carpentry Lab Meeting, we discussed how to build a minimal presence on the web. Figure out which steps you should take, with samples of personal websites and CV’s, in <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/03/creating-an-online-presence.html">these notes posted in our blog</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/03/updating-checklists.html">Our checklists have been updated</a>. Remember to check them out before help in, teach, or plan a bootcamp.</li>
<li>Should Software Carpentry include lessons on MATLAB? This <a href="https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/pull/399">discussion thread</a> on GitHub has lots of opinions pro and con; please add yours.</li>
<li>David Rio built <a href="https://github.com/drio/rollswiththis">his own version</a> of <a href="http://usesthis.com">usesthis.com</a> to learn which tool you are using to get your science done. Read <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/03/what-do-you-use-to-get-your-job-done.html">his blog post</a>.</li>
<li>Greg Wilson blogged about <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/03/one-of-our-inspirations.html">one of the books that inspired Software Carpentry</a>. The book included a floppy disk with programs: it’s interesting how different is the shelf life of hardware and software.</li>
<li><a href="http://nbdiff.org/">NBdiff</a> is tool for diffing and merging iPython notebooks created by students at Concordia University in Canada. See the <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/03/announcing-nbdiff.html">announcement in our blog</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="clear">A workshop needs you</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>US and Canada</strong>
<ul>
<li>If you’re close to <strong>North Carolina</strong>, they need an instructor for a workshop at Duke University in June. A workshop in <strong>San Diego</strong>, California, needs instructors and helpers in May. In addition, instructors are needed for <strong>Ithaca</strong> in New York, <strong>the University of California at Davis</strong>, and <strong>the Federal Reserve</strong> in Washington. Helpers are needed for <strong>Toronto</strong> and <strong>Vancouver</strong> in Canada, and <strong>Atlanta</strong> in Georgia.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Europe and Middle East</strong>
<ul>
<li>A double workshop, first in <strong>Cyprus</strong> and one week later in <strong>Jordan</strong>, needs two instructors. In addition, instructors are needed for two different workshops in <strong>Pisa</strong>, Italy, in June; one in <strong>Kiel</strong>, Germany, and another one in <strong>Paris</strong>, France.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Oceania</strong>
<ul>
<li>A workshop in <strong>Brisbane</strong>, Australia, needs instructors and helpers.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Please check the details in <a href="https://swcarpentry.etherpad.mozilla.org/instructors-needed">this Etherpad</a> or contact Amy and Arliss.</p>
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