<div dir="ltr">Kaitlin, hi !<br><br>I've been keeping track of the work done by you guys (kudos, btw) just biding my time until the opportunity presented itself to bring a bootcamp (back) to SA[1].<br><br>I think we've got a good candidate for one now - there's a big e-Research conference in Cape Town in November (see the pre-announcement below). I've asked the organisers if there would be space and time for a bootcamp, but given last year's one[2] there should be. I wanted to be prudent, given your hectic schedules and probe far in advance whether there would be the possibility of hosting a bootcamp in Cape Town around this event. <br>
<br>If so, I would like to perhaps fork the lesson plan a bit and include a bit on user induction to our grid / cloud platform. <br><br>Let me know if you're interested, and we can look into ironing out details.<br>
Thanks ! <br>
Bruce<br><br><br>--- pre-announcement---<br>*Save the date: eResearch Africa Conference 2014*<br><br>The Association of South African University Directors of Information<br>Technology (ASAUDIT) has great pleasure in announcing that the second<br>
eResearch Africa conference will take place <b>23-27 November 2014</b> at the<br>University of Cape Town. This event aims to bring together all players<br>in the eResearch field and provide them with the platform to share ideas<br>
and exemplars.<br><br>More information regarding the conference will be made available soon,<br>but in the meantime please save the date in your calendar and spread the<br>word.<br><br><br>[1] I see there was a meeting in stellenbosch in April this year - but there doesn't seem to be much content in the repo - can someone let me know went down ?<br>
[2] <a href="http://eresearch.ac.za/">http://eresearch.ac.za/</a><span class="sew35isbf2ubjns"></span><span class="sew35isbf2ubjns"></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 May 2014 21:43, Kaitlin Thaney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kaitlin@mozillafoundation.org" target="_blank">kaitlin@mozillafoundation.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi all, <div><br></div><div>It's a been a busy few weeks at the Science Lab planning for the year to come, and we wanted to pass along a few pointers to posts about what's coming in the pipeline and how you can help:</div>
<div><br></div><div>First off, the first in a series of posts about the Science Lab's plans moving forward, this on scaling our work with Software Carpentry, thinking about what happens after a bootcamp, and a note about sustainability:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://mozillascience.org/software-carpentry-engagement-and-scaling-our-efforts/" target="_blank">http://mozillascience.org/software-carpentry-engagement-and-scaling-our-efforts/</a></div><div>
<br></div><div>We also held our monthly Software Carpentry lab meeting this week, where we trialled out a new way of voting on new lesson material. You can catch up in the etherpad notes:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://etherpad.mozilla.org/swc-labmeeting" target="_blank">https://etherpad.mozilla.org/swc-labmeeting</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>And lastly, more on our latest prototyping project. Many of you know of our code review pilot as well as our "code as a research object" project with GitHub, figshare and Zenodo. We've also been working to extend the Open Access Button with the help of Victor Ng, a Mozilla colleague. The aim is to build upon the original bookmarklet's aim to flag content paywalls and help better surface Open Access content in institutional and disciplinary repositories, preprints and the like. You can read more about Victor's initial work and how you can help with some of the bugs (as well as figuring out why our blog CSS is acting up ;) ) in this post:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://mozillascience.org/open-access-button-project-updates-prototypes-next-steps/" target="_blank">http://mozillascience.org/open-access-button-project-updates-prototypes-next-steps/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Stay tuned for more over the coming week.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>K<br><div>
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