Weekly Update: Feb 14 - Feb 20, 2015
This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.
| Highlights: | We're looking for mentors and projects for Google Summer of Code: please get in touch if you have questions or suggestions. |
| Research Bazaar was again a highlight on Twitter this week, and Damien Irving summarised plans for Software Carpentry in Australia and New Zealand. | |
| Conversations: | An interesting conversation about "Library Carpentry" started by James Baker took place on Twitter. |
| New resources: | A new Browsercast tutorial "Creating a workshop website" was published. Please let us know if you have any comments. |
| An early release of "Effective Computation in Physics" has been made available. The book is relevant to scientists of all kinds | Opportunities: | SciPy call for participation is open. Please submit your proposal for tutorials, talks, or posters. |
| Call for Data Science Fellow applications through the Berkley Institute for Data Science is now open. |
Details
- Thomas Guignard and Jeramia Ory wrote about their experiences during a recent workshop at the University at Albany, SUNY. They specifically mention challenges experienced when trying to find answers in real time but otherwise had a great experience.
- Noam Ross compiled valuable advice on "Managing GitHub notifications" for people struggling to manage the flood of email from GitHub.
- Seven workshops were added: UCI Data Science Initiative, iPlant Collaborative (University of Arizona), Jagiellonian University, University of Melbourne (three workshops), and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
- Next week workshops will be run by NeSI in Canterbury and Auckland, the Korea Radio Promotion Association, and the Science Library at the University of Oslo
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| amy | 9 | 5 | 36 | 6 | 6 | |
| site | 5 | 3 | 39 | 16 | 14 | 4 |
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