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</style><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="safari-resource:/WBSReaderSharedStyleSheet.css" id="article-content-shared"><title>Software Carpentry in Review: April 28-May 4, 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-in-review-april-28-may-4-2014/"><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>
<p>The monthly Mozilla Science Lab call will take place this Thursday, May 8 at 11 ET. The call will be centered on education and everyone is welcome to join. Find more information, including details on how to connect, <a href="https://etherpad.mozilla.org/sciencelab-calls-may08-2014">in this Etherpad</a>.</p>
<p>Several workshops are looking for instructors and helpers for the summertime, for example, one at <strong>Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia</strong> in June, and another at <strong>the University of Nottingham</strong> in July. Take a look at the bottom of this post and spend a weekend teaching and making new friends.</p>
<h2 class="clear">Workshops</h2>
<ul>
<li>Aron Ahmadia, Joshua R. Herr, and William Rowell <a href="http://jrherr.github.io/2014-04-29-gwu/">taught a workshop at the George Washington University</a> in Virginia.</li>
<li>Greg Wilson and Warren Code <a href="http://swcarpentry.github.io/2014-04-28-training/">taught a three-day in person version of our instructor training course</a> at the Mozilla office in Toronto.</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="clear">Upcoming workshops</h3>
<ul>
<li>May 12: Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbour, NY,</li>
<li>May 12: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Brazil.</li>
<li>May 19: Science for Life Laboratory, Solna, Sweden.</li>
<li>June 2: Monash University, Australia.</li>
<li>June 4: Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Pisa, Italy.</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="clear">Lesson development</h2>
<p>7 pull requests were merged, 1 issue was closed, and 3 issues were opened. In addition to the merges, we had 23 commits made by Ethan White, mckays630, Chris Friedline, Greg Wilson, Andrea Zonca, and Dani Traphagen.</p>
<h2 class="clear">Other news</h2>
<ul>
<li>The Science Lab <a href="http://mozillascience.org/a-multi-site-sprint-this-july/">just announced an exciting multi-site sprint</a> for July 22–23. <strong>Save the date!</strong> You may join the sprint from one of the announced sites or propose a new one.</li>
<li>Kathy Huff <a href="http://sciencereview.berkeley.edu/wise-athena-swifter-hermes/">wrote on the Berkeley Review about the recent workshop for women </a>.</li>
<li>Greg Wilson <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/05/improving-instructor-training.html">posted some interesting comments about the instructor training course</a> held last week in Toronto.</li>
<li>Greg Wilson <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/05/playing-the-kazoo.html">discussed on the blog</a> about how Software Carpentry aims to increase the performance of researchers by helping them to reduce the programming hours they need to reach machine’s peak performance.</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="clear">A workshop needs you</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>US and Canada</strong>
<ul>
<li>Workshop in the West Coast need instructors: two at <strong>the University of California at Davis</strong>, and four in total for two workshops in <strong>Stanford</strong>. Also a workshop at <strong>the University of Delaware</strong> and another in <strong>Atlanta</strong> need one more instructor.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Europe</strong>
<ul>
<li>At least one instructor is needed for a workshop in <strong>Kiel</strong>, Germany, and several for workshops in <strong>Cranfield, Nottingham, Cambridge and Oxford</strong> in the UK.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>More details in <a href="https://swcarpentry.etherpad.mozilla.org/instructors-needed">the instructor-needed Etherpad</a>.</p>
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