April 28 - May 5, 2015: GSoC Projects, Nightly Rebuilds, Katy Huff, and a PhD Starter Kit.

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Highlights

• The Google Summer of Code students have been selected. Well done to Piotr Banaszkiewicz, Ian Henriksen, and Amit Jamadagni!
• Nightly rebuilds of the Software Carpentry lessons version 5.3 are now available.

People

• Meet Katy Huff - chair of the Steering Committee and a member of the finance subcommittee.

Resources

• Achintya Rao wrote a fascinating PhD Starter Kit listing some best practices and useful tools postgraduate students could find useful on their journey towards graduation.

Events

• Learn about Research in the Cloud in Feltham this July.

Details

• Three workshops were run this week: Simon Fraser University, Content Korea Lab Gyeonggi, and Washington State University.
• Several workshops have been confirmed for the next few months. Upcoming workshops can be viewed on our website. Newly added workshops are indicated with "*".
• May: Lawrence Berkeley Lab*, University of Melbourne, Swinburne University of Technology, University of South Florida - College of Marine Science, University of New Mexico, Western University, Stellenbosch University, University of Oklahoma Libraries*, University of Melbourne, Oklahoma State Universtiy*
• June: University of Cambridge, Materials Physics Center - University of the Basque Country
• July: The University of Queensland, SciPy 2015, The University of Queensland - AMOS sciences, SAP Offices in Feltham

Other events

• womENcourage 2015 will be held in Uppsala in September 2015. Scholarship applications close on 20 May.

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