https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/tag/weekly-review/Recent content in Weekly Review on The CarpentriesHugoen-usMon, 18 Nov 2024 23:02:38 -0500https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2016/05/weekly-review/Mon, 09 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2016/05/weekly-review/<p><b>This post originally appeared on the <a href="https://software-carpentry.org/">Software Carpentry website.</a></b></p> <h2 id="highlights">Highlights</h2> <ul> <li>The 2016 Steering Committee invites you to help organize and develop resources and activities to support our community members by proposing new initiatives in the form of <a href="%7B%7Bsite.baseurl%7D%7D/blog/2016/04/subcommittes-taskforces.html">subcommittees and task forces</a>. Full instructions on the proposal process can be found <a href="https://github.com/swcarpentry/board/blob/master/subcommittees/proposal_instructions.md">here</a>. The Steering Committee will gladly help! Also check out the <a href="https://github.com/swcarpentry/board/blob/master/subcommittees/subcommittees.md">subcommittee listing</a> for information on existing and past subcommittees.</li> <li>Joint partnerships are now offered by Data Carpentry and Software Carpentry! Read the <a href="%7B%7Bsite.baseurl%7D%7D/scf/join">partnership information</a> on how to become a partner and <a href="mailto:partnerships@software-carpentry.org">get in touch</a>.</li> </ul> <h2 id="vacancy">Vacancy</h2> <ul> <li><a href="%7B%7Bsite.baseurl%7D%7D/blog/2016/04/assessment-director-posting.html">Data Carpentry is hiring a Deputy Director of Assessment</a>. Visit the <a href="http://www.datacarpentry.org/jobs/">Data Carpentry jobs page</a> for a full job description and application procedure.</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Tune in to the <a href="%7B%7Bsite.baseurl%7D%7D/blog/2016/05/may-lab-meeting.html">Software Carpentry Lab Meeting</a> on May 10th to discuss what&rsquo;s new and upcoming in the community. Check out the <a href="%7B%7Bsite.pad_url%7D%7D/swc-lab-meeting-2016-05-10">Lab Meeting Etherpad</a> for the schedule and connection details.</li> <li>Join the worldwide <a href="http://swcarpentry.github.io/SWC-bug-bbq/">Software Carpentry Bug Barbeque on June 13</a> to help fix bugs in Version 5.4 of <a href="%7B%7Bsite.baseurl%7D%7D/lessons/">Software Carpentry lessons</a> before publication. All contributors will receive credit for your hard work with a citable object.</li> </ul> <h2 id="conversations">Conversations</h2> <ul> <li>A recent conversation on the discuss mailing list prompted the creation of two new issues open for discussion in GitHub: <ul> <li>How should we deal with <a href="https://github.com/swcarpentry/board/issues/112">high-volume discussions on the mailing list</a>?</li> <li>Is the <a href="https://github.com/swcarpentry/board/issues/111">Code of Conduct</a> saying what the community want/need it to say and how should it be enforced?</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h2 id="videos-and-books">Videos and Books</h2> <ul> <li>Greg Wilson published a video of &ldquo;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ApVt04rB4U">things not to do while teaching</a>&rdquo;. The material is great to use during instructor training to demonstrate to instructor trainees what we&rsquo;re trying to avoid when teaching and is based on suggestions made in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ApVt04rB4U">this discussion on GitHub</a>.</li> <li>Support Data Carpentry by buying the book <a href="https://leanpub.com/modernscientist/">How to Be a Modern Scientist</a> written by <a href="http://www.jtleek.com/">Jeff Leek</a>. The book includes guides for <a href="https://github.com/jtleek/reviews">reviewing papers</a>, <a href="https://github.com/jtleek/readingpapers">reading papers</a>, <a href="https://github.com/jtleek/careerplanning">career planning</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/jtleek/talkguide">giving talks</a>.</li> <li>Iñigo Aldazabal Mensa (CSIC-UPV/EHU) provided a video of him explaining Software Carpentry in great detail at the <a href="http://www.hpckp.org/index.php/conference/2016">2016 HPC Knowledge Portal Conference</a> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQyKeMfyFKQ">Software Carpentry: teaching computing skills to researchers</a>.</li> </ul> <h2 id="other">Other</h2> <ul> <li>Did you recently participate in a Software Carpentry workshop and had questions that weren&rsquo;t answered by the lessons? Do you teach workshops and hear questions from participants that can&rsquo;t be addressed by the existing materials? Please add these questions to <a href="%7B%7Bsite.baseurl%7D%7D/blog/2016/04/questions-answers-and-lessons.html">this post</a>.</li> <li>What have we learned from our <a href="%7B%7Bsite.baseurl%7D%7D/blog/2016/04/discussion-session-summary.html">lesson discussion sessions</a> so far? We welcome all new instructors to provide feedback about their experience of the sessions by commenting on the post.</li> <li>Aleksandra Pawlik recently blogged about her experience when she visited South Africa for the <a href="http://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2016-04-26-supporting-research-software-south-africa-and-africa?bw">first face-to-face Software and Data Carpentry Instructor Training in Africa</a>.</li> <li>Planning on running a Software Carpentry workshop with R? Read how three sticky notes and chocolates helped participants in the <a href="%7B%7Bsite.baseurl%7D%7D/blog/2016/05/griffith-uni-r.html">Sotware Carpentry workshop at Griffith University</a>.</li> <li>Staff members from iDigBio gave <a href="https://www.idigbio.org/content/software-carpentry-idigbio-staff-perspective">their perspective</a> on attending a Software Carpentry workshop. They encourage all researchers who&rsquo;d like to work with the iDigBio datasets to particpipate in a workshop near them or request one at their own institution.</li> <li>16 workshops were run over the past 16 days. For more information about past workshops, please visit our <a href="%7B%7Bsite.baseurl%7D%7D/workshops/past/">website</a>.</li> <li>Upcoming Workhshops <ul> <li>May: <a href="https://uoftcoders.github.io/2016-05-09-utoronto/">University of Toronto</a>, <a href="https://swcarpentry.github.io/2016-05-11-ttt-compute-canada/">Bancroft Building - University of Toronto</a>, <a href="https://combine-australia.github.io/2016-05-12-CharlesDarwinUni/">Charles Darwin University</a>, <a href="https://computecanada.github.io/2016-05-14-ubc/">University of British Columbia</a>, <a href="https://lgatto.github.io/2016-05-16-CAM/">University of Cambridge</a>, <a href="https://mperignon.github.io/2016-05-16-csdms/">CSDMS Annual Meeting</a>, <a href="https://jttkim.github.io/2016-05-16-royalholloway/">Royal Holloway - University of London</a>, <a href="https://rgaiacs.github.io/2016-05-16-scipyla/">SciPy Latin America</a>, <a href="https://billmills.github.io/2016-05-17-UBC/">UBC Koerner Library</a>, <a href="https://computecanada.github.io/2016-05-21-ubc/">University of British Columbia</a>, <a href="https://pages.nist.gov/2016-05-23-nist/">National Institute of Standards and Technology</a>, <a href="https://osu-swc.github.io/2016-05-23-okstate/">Oklahoma State University</a>, <a href="https://rgaiacs.github.io/2016-05-23-unicamp/">Universidade Estadual de Campinas</a>, <a href="https://computecanada.github.io/2016-05-24-mcmaster/">McMaster University - Kenneth Taylor Hall (KTH) B121</a>, <a href="https://mperignon.github.io/2016-05-25-culibraries/">Colorado Special Libraries Association @ CU Boulder</a>, <a href="https://alexsavio.github.io/2016-05-25-lunduni/">Lund University</a>, <a href="http://datacarpentry.github.io/2016-05-26-NIH/">National Institutes of Health</a>, <a href="https://pages.nist.gov/2016-05-26-nist/">National Institute of Standards and Technology</a>, <a href="https://jsta.github.io/2016-05-26-sfwmd/">South Florida Water Management District</a>, <a href="https://uoftcoders.github.io/2016-05-26-utoronto/">University of Toronto</a>, <a href="https://rgaiacs.github.io/2016-05-27-ccsl/">Centro de Competência em Software Livre</a></li> <li>June: <a href="https://uw-madison-aci.github.io/2016-06-01-uwmadison/">University of Wisconsin - Madison</a>, <a href="https://fmichonneau.github.io/2016-06-03-upr-mayaguez/">University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez</a>, <a href="https://ecole2016.calculquebec.ca/">Université Bishop&rsquo;s</a>, <a href="https://qjcg.github.io/2016-06-07-ucincinnati/">University of Cincinnati</a>, <a href="https://roundtown.com/event/56061687/NeSI-Massey-Albany-Software-Carpentry-Auckland-NZ">NeSI-Massey Albany Software Carpentry</a>, <a href="https://liz-fernandez.github.io/2016-06-08-LANGEBIO-Mexico/">LANGEBIO-Cinvestav</a>, <a href="https://uw-madison-aci.github.io/2016-06-08-uwmadison/">University of Wisconsin - Madison</a>, <a href="https://sib-swiss.github.io/2016-06-20-lausanne/">SIB @ University of Lausanne</a>, <a href="https://swissbib.github.io/2016-06-23-basel/">University Library Basel</a>, <a href="http://iamc.eu/2016-06-27-cfmehu/">Materials Physics Center - University of the Basque Country</a>, <a href="https://arcleeds.github.io/2016-06-27-leeds/">NERC / The University of Leeds</a>, <a href="https://arcleeds.github.io/2016-06-29-leeds/">NERC / The University of Leeds</a></li> <li>July: <a href="https://bio-swc-bne.github.io/2016-07-11-bne-R/">R workshop - The University of Queensland</a>, <a href="https://dipnet.github.io/2016-07-25-Philippines/">Philippines</a></li> <li>October: <a href="https://ucsdlib.github.io/2016-05-17-ucsd/">UC San Diego</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul>