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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: June 9-21, 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-june-9-21-2014/"><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 Software Carpentry lab meeting will be this Thursday, June 26th, at 10am and 7pm ET. <a href="http://etherpad.mozilla.org/swc-labmeeting">Details are in this Etherpad</a>.</p>
<h2 class="clear">Workshops</h2>
<ul>
<li>Luis Pedro Coelho and Marios Isaakidis <a href="http://luispedro.github.io/2014-06-10-cyi">taught a workshop at Cyprus University</a> in Nicosia, Cyprus, and <a href="http://luispedro.github.io/2014-06-15-khbp">another one</a> in Amman, Jordan.</li>
<li>Will Trimble and Elijah Lowe <a href="http://wltrimbl.github.io/2014-06-10-spelman/">taught a workshop at the Spelman College</a> in Atlanta, Georgia.</li>
<li>Naupaka Zimmerman, Bernhard Konrad, Dav Clark, and Andrea Zonca <a href="http://ibernhardkonrad.ngithub.io/2014-06-16-davis">taught a workshop at the Univeristy of California at Davis</a>.</li>
<li>Preston Holmes and Bill Mills <a href="http://ptone.github.io/2014-06-16-claremont">taught a workshop at the Claremont Colleges</a> in California.</li>
<li>Cliburn Chan, Karen Cranston, and Joshua Granek <a href="http://cliburn.github.io/2014-06-16-duke">taught a workshop at Duke University</a> in North Carolina.</li>
<li>Pauline Barmby, Jennifer Campbell, and Greg Wilson <a href="http://swcarpentry.github.io/2014-06-16-toronto/">taught a workshop at the Mozilla Toronto</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="clear">Upcoming workshops</h3>
<ul>
<li>June 24–25: Rockfeller University, New York.</li>
<li>June 24–25: Womem in Science and Engineering, Philadelphia.</li>
<li>June 25–26: Univeristy of Reading, UK.</li>
<li>June 26–27: University of Notre Dame, Indiana.</li>
<li>Jun 30-Jul 1: Stanford University, California.</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="clear">Lesson development</h2>
<p>In these two weeks, 11 pull requests were merged, 6 issues were closed, and 11 issues were opened. In addition to the merges, we had 13 commits made by Greg Wilson, Raniere Silva, Ben Marwick, mestato, and Rémi Emonet.</p>
<h2 class="clear">Other news</h2>
<ul>
<li>ARCHER, the UK’s new national supercomputing service, <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/06/archer-cranfield-boot-camp.html">annouced a three-day Software Carpentry bootcamp</a> “to master the skills you need before tacking anything with <em>cloud</em> or <em>peta</em> or <em>HPC</em> in their name.”</li>
<li><a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/06/registration-open-for-norwich.html">Registration for the instructor training course in Norwich in late October is open</a>.</li>
<li>Bill Mills <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/06/reflections-on-claremont.html">wrote in our blog</a> a detailed reflection on the way we teach Python.</li>
<li>Jeff Shelton <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/06/engineering-focused-bootcamp.html">described in our blog</a> his plans to run a engineering focused bootcamp. He is looking for feedback and instructors.</li>
<li>Will Trimble taugth a workshop where students run into a problem using git on Windows, but he had only his Mac to figure it out. His solution: spin an Amazon EC2 instance running Windows, reproduce the issue, and fix it. As a bonus, <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/06/fixing-14-repositories.html">he fixed other 14 bootcamp repos.</a>.</li>
<li>Tareq Malas <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/06/kaust-success-story.html">wrote in our blog</a> about the Python tutorials he is teaching at the KinKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia.</li>
<li>Projects for our July sprint are blooming. See <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/06/planning-our-summer-sprint.html">a summary in this</a>, and <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/06/update-on-sprint-plans.html">this posts</a>.</li>
<li>As part of the July sprint, some people is <a href="http::/software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/06/translating-software-carpentry-into-spanish.html">traslating the Software Carpentry novice lessons into Spanish</a>. If you want to help, <a href="https://github.com/franktoffel/swcarpentry-es/tree/master/translations/es">check out this repo</a>.</li>
<li>Also as part of the sprint, <a href="https://github.com/toolness/">Atul Varma</a> is <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/06/help-us-build-an-admin-tool-for-bootcamps.html">building a tool to administer bootcamps</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="clear">A workshop needs you</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>US and Canada</strong>
<ul>
<li>A workshop at workshop at <strong>Stanford University</strong> at the end of July needs an instructor. Another instructor is needed at US Department of Agriculture in <strong>Athens, Georgia</strong> in September.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Europe</strong>
<ul>
<li>At least one instructor is needed for a workshop in <strong>Kiel</strong> in Germany, and several for workshops in <strong>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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