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. |
Details
- 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.
Repository Activity
| Project | Issues | Pull Requests | ||||
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| Opened | Closed | Comments | Opened | Closed | Comments | |
| shell-novice | 1 | 2 | 31 | 9 | 8 | 4 |
| git-novice | 2 | 8 | 3 | 5 | ||
| hg-novice | 1 | 1 | ||||
| sql-novice-survey | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||
| python-novice-inflammation | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 7 | |
| r-novice-inflammation | 1 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 9 | |
| matlab-novice-inflammation | 1 | 1 | ||||
| slideshows | ||||||
| instructor-training | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| amy | 5 | 2 | 52 | 9 | 9 | 4 |
| site | 3 | 3 | 30 | 11 | 12 | 30 |
| Total | 10 | 14 | 146 | 49 | 44 | 54 |
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