Where the Time Goes (Version 2)

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Last November, I wrote a post about where my time was going. A lot has changed since then, including my workload, so here's an update:

That's 50 hours in a week when I'm not traveling or teaching workshops, down from 57.5 hours/week seven months ago, and we have accomplished a tremendous amount since the Steering Committee was elected in January:

• the workshop template is much easier to use;

• our lessons (mostly) conform to the new template and have almost been published;

• we're holding regular debriefing sessions in which instructors from recent workshop can share their experiences;

• we've trained a bunch of new instructors, and run some very promising experiments with accelerated online instructor training;

• we're using Amy on a daily basis; and

• more than a dozen organizations have signed up as partners or affiliates, and more are in the pipeline.

The list still doesn't include things that are vital to Software Carpentry's long-term health, like writing up instructor training or creating new lessons, but the foundation that will allow us to focus on that is almost in place.