ROpenSci on The Carpentries

Post-doc Position with rOpenSci

Wed, 07 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The rOpenSci project based at the University of California, Berkeley seeks to hire a postdoctoral scholar to work on the research activities funded by the grant titled “Fostering the next generation of sustainable software and reproducible research practices in the scientific community”. The project develops open source software to promote reproducible research practices in the scientific community. The postdoctoral scholar will focus on a research topic aligned with their own interests in order to better understand and improve scientific software practices. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

rOpenSci is Looking for a Community Manager

Tue, 29 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Thanks to their recent funding, rOpenSci is now looking for a community manager. Their mission is to expand access to scientific data and promote a culture of reproducible research and sustainable research software; to aid that, the community manager’s job will be to broaden the understanding and reach of rOpenSci to the researcher community. For details, please see the full announcement.

rOpenSci Announces $2.9M Award from the Helmsley Charitable Trust

Thu, 19 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

rOpenSci, whose mission is to develop and maintain sustainable software tools that allow researchers to access, visualize, document, and publish open data on the Web, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant of nearly $2.9 million over three years from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. The grant, which was awarded through the Trust's Biomedical Research Infrastructure Program, will be used to expand rOpenSci's mission of developing tools and community around open data and reproducible research practices.

rOpenSci Unconference in March 2015

Mon, 02 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The good folks at rOpenSci have just announced that their second annual unconference (which will actually be more like an unhackathon) is happening at GitHub's headquarters in San Francisco in March 2015. They're also hosting a Data Science Social on March 26 - please see their site for details.