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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 31-April 6, 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-31-april-6-2014/"><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><strong>A workshop at the Scripps Institute in San Diego needs instructors and helpers</strong>. It will be sometime in the second half of May and cannot happen without your help. If you are not into San Diego’s perfect weather, the ocean breeze bothers you, or, simply, cannot make it, scroll down for other amazing workshops looking for instructors and helpers.</li>
<li>There are still a few <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>Know people in bioinformatics? There will be <a href="http://bioinformatics.ca/">two Software Carpentry bootcamps for them in May in Canada</a>: one in Vancouver, one in Toronto. Seats still available on both.</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="clear">Workshops</h2>
<p>Three workshops happened this week:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ethan White, Greg Wilson, and Bill Mills taught a <a href="http://swcarpentry.github.io/2014-04-02-uvic/">workshop at the University of Victoria</a> in Canada.</li>
<li>Luis Pedro Coelho and Steven Koenig taught a <a href="http://luispedro.github.io/2014-04-03-sdu/">workshop at University of Southern Denmark</a> in Odense. They included a short lesson on regular expressions and another one on make.</li>
<li>Jonah Duckles and Emily Jane McTavish, with the help of Mark Stacy and Mark Laufersweiler, taught <a href="http://jduckles.github.io/2014-04-04-ou/">a workshop at the University of Oklahoma</a> in Norman. This was a R-based workshop.</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="clear">Upcoming workshops</h3>
<ul>
<li>April, 07: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder CO, USA.</li>
<li>April, 14: PyCon Bootcamps, Montreal QC, Canada.</li>
<li>April, 14: Women in Science and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley CA, USA.</li>
<li>April, 21: George Washington University, Washington DC, USA.</li>
<li>April, 23: University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="clear">Lesson development</h2>
<p>10 pull requests were merged, 10 issues were closed, and 8 issues were opened. In addition to the merges, we had 41 commits made by Rob Beagrie, Greg Wilson, Ethan White, Stephen Turner, Raniere Silva, Trevor W. King, Brian Miles, Daniel Chen, Erik Bray, John Blischak, Marianne Corvellec, and Philipp Bayer.</p>
<h2 class="clear">Other news</h2>
<ul>
<li>Bill Mills <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/04/uniting_the_narrative.html">wrote on the blog</a> about his experience teaching a Software Carpentry workshop for the first time. He also proposed an interesting idea to unify the story we tell the students along the workshop.</li>
<li>Greg Wilson <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/04/novice-r-discussion-summary.html">summarized on our blog</a> the current status and future plans for the development of our R lessons. There is a group of people already involved, but they are looking for more hands to join the effort.</li>
<li>Greg also <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/03/continuous-publication-requires-continuous-attention.html">wrote an opinion piece on the blog</a> about whether the continuous deployment model characteristic of agile software development is worthy for publishing research results.</li>
<li>There is a couple of new lessons in our main repo looking for contributions: a <a href="http://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/pull/417">short lesson on parallel programming in Python</a> and another <a href="http://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/pull/419">short lesson on pipeline automation using the doit library</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. In adittion to the workshop in <strong>San Diego</strong> in May, a lot of instructors are needed in the West Coast: four at <strong>the University of California at Davis</strong>, four in total for two workshops in <strong>Stanford</strong>, and another four in <strong>Portland</strong>. In the East Coast, a workshop at <strong>the University of Delaware</strong> needs instructors. Helpers are needed for <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 intructors. In addition, instructors are needed for a workshop in <strong>Pisa</strong>, Italy, in June, and another one in <strong>Kiel</strong>, Germany.</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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