April 6 - 13, 2015: The Steering Committee, Workshops for Companies, and a Discussion of WiSE Events

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Highlights

• A summary of the steering committee's activities has been provided by Karin Lagesen. Her post includes links to board meeting minutes and an overview of the newly-formed subcommittees.
• Software Carpentry will be running five workshops for companies. Please get in touch if you are aware of companies that may be interested to participate in this pilot program.

Conversations

• What are your feelings about women-only events to address the gender gap in STEM? Read about the experiences and observations from instructors during a recent WiSE workshop.

Details

• Do you have suggestions to include in a 10-step inception deck that could facilitate alignment of goals for research coding projects? Please share your thoughts with us.
• Highlights from the Data Carpentry Genomics and Assessment hackathon held in March have been posted by Kate Hertweck. (See also this post for another perspective.)
• Workshops were run last week at the University of Washington (Seattle) and University of Melbourne as well as a train-the-trainer workshop at the NIH.
• Several workshops have been confirmed for the next few months. Upcoming workshops can be viewed on our website. Newly added workshops are indicated with "*".
• April: NCAR Foothills Lab*, Imperial College London, University of Virginia, Northwestern University, University of California - Santa Barbara, Wrigley Building, Arizona State University, University of Texas at Arlington, University of Nebraska - Omaha, Washington State University, Simon Fraser University
• May: University of South Florida - College of Marine Science*, Western University, University of Melbourne
• July: The University of Queensland, The University of Queensland - AMOS sciences

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