Weekly Update: Feb 28 - March 6, 2015

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Highlights:	Do you want to help shape the future of Software Carpentry? The Software Carpentry Foundation is now calling for volunteers to serve on various standing committees.
	NumFOCUS has been selected as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organisation. Students can apply between 16 and 27 March 2015.
	A Contributor Covenant was added to our lessons and other repositories to promote a harassment-free environment for contribution to Software Carpentry.
Resources:	An early release version of Bioinformatics Data Skills is available via O'Reilly. Vince Buffalo's book is highly recommended for both novice and experienced bioinformaticians.
Opportunities:	Scientific Software Engineer positions are available at the UK Met Office
Changes:	Daisie Huang will be taking over from Jess Hamrick to maintain our Git lessons with Ivan Gonzalez. Our thanks to Jess for all her help.

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Has your involvement with Software Carpentry led to any form of career advancement? Please contact Jenny Bryan to share your experience.
View the experimental Paper Now project started by PeerJ to "Create, edit and display a journal article, entirely in GitHub".
Ruth Collings is adapting the SWC version 4 RegEx lesson to the version 5 template.
Leszek Tarkowski provided comprehensive feedback about their workshop in Krakow which was taugth in Polish.
Victor (Kwangchun) Lee summarised their challenges and victories experienced in the first Software Carpentry workshop held in Korea.
Last month we started a conversation about funding streams for Software Carpentry workshops. Noam Ross has now summarised that discussion and provide some valuable tips for sourcing funding.
"Best Practices for Scientific Computing" was the most viewed article in PLOS Biology in 2014.
Ten new instructors joined us last week.
Four workshops were added: Clemson University, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), University of British Columbia, and University of Virginia.

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