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The Real Purpose of Sprints

Mon, 04 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

"The real purpose of sprints isn't the code, it's getting to know people..." This is what Greg Wilson told me after the first-ever Mozilla Science Lab global sprint. Indeed, over the course of two days, dozens of people all over the world met virtually and in person to develop and improve Software Carpentry teaching materials, infrastructure and a number of MSL-related projects.

Summer Sprint Summary

Tue, 29 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Last week, the Mozilla Science Lab hosted its first-ever global sprint. Dozens of people joined in from 18 cities (and a few from home) to work for two days on a wide variety of projects, ranging from new lessons to tools for mining the scientific literature. The MSL blog has all the details, and will have a series of posts about what was done over the next couple of weeks, but here are a few Software Carpentry-specific highlights:

GSoC Projects at Summer Sprint

Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

As you may know, the Mozilla Science Lab's first-ever two-day sprint is in the next few days and all GSoC projects related with Mozilla Science Lab will be part of it. For more information about the plans for the GSoC projects continue reading this post.

Summer Sprint FAQ

Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The Mozilla Science Lab's first-ever two-day sprint is less than three weeks away, so here's a short FAQ to tell you who can take part and how.

An Update on Our Sprint Plans

Sun, 15 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Plans for our two-day sprint in July are coming together: full details are being compiled on our Etherpad, but we hope the summary below will give you a taste of what we're hoping to do.

Planning Our Summer Sprint

Mon, 09 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

As a warm-up for our lab meeting on June 26, we have some more information to share about our two-day sprint in July. Please see our Etherpad for details, including more about sites and projects.

Introducing Scientists to Testing and Code Review

Thu, 05 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

As part of our two-day sprint in July, the khmer project will be offering a mentored open source contributathon. This will provide an opportunity for people interested in trying out the "GitHub flow" model, in which contributions are submitted for review using a pull request. Since the project has lots of unit tests and fairly high code coverage, people can also see how testing and code coverage interact with software development in practice. For more information, please see Titus Brown's blog post.