<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Namibia on The Carpentries</title><link>https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/tag/namibia/</link><description>Recent content in Namibia on The Carpentries</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 23:02:38 -0500</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/tag/namibia/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Reporting on the Second Software Carpentry Workshop in Namibia</title><link>https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2017/09/namibia/</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2017/09/namibia/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;b>This post originally appeared on the &lt;a href="https://software-carpentry.org/">Software Carpentry website.&lt;/a>&lt;/b>&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="background">Background&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>After attending this year’s &lt;a href="https://software-carpentry.org/blog/2017/05/instructor-training-south-africa.html">African Instructors Meetup&lt;/a> in Cape Town South Africa, Jessica Upani and Gabriel Nhinda from Namibia started laying the groundwork for another Software Carpentry workshop for Namibia. The &lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bQadFk4ZmAJ-hhOQ6zym5oZJ_LJnuJ26sWEqa8E64hE/pub">previous workshop&lt;/a> took place about a year ago as part of a &lt;a href="https://figshare.com/articles/A_Programme_for_the_Development_of_Computational_and_Digital_Research_Capacity_in_South_Africa_and_Africa_-_phase_1/3382168">12-month programme to build computing capacity in Africa&lt;/a>. This year however, the workshop was initiated, organised and taught by exclusively local instructors and helpers, Gabriel and Jessica with assistance from Ruber.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>