June 29 - July 06, 2015: Research Software Engineers, Not Changing Lesson Build Tools, and Moving to Python3.

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Highlights

Do you know what a Research Software Engineer is or why we desperately need to recognise the role RSEs are playing in research? Read about the history of RSEs and a fellowship programme available for RSEs in the UK.
Version 5.4 of our lessons will be released at the end of November, rather than mid-August, and lesson build tools will remain unchanged until then. Most importantly we'll be changing the Python lessons to run on Python 3.

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Pauline Barmby summarised her experience at a recent all women's Software Carpentry workshop at the University of Toronto.
Damien Irving recently ran a Software Carpentry workshop as part of a Masters course module for Earth Sciences. They are also making Software Carpentry software available through the research cloud, NeCTAR.
A genomics focussed Data Carpentry hackathon and workshop was held at the Unviversity of Untrecht, Netherlands. The workshop formed part of an ELIXIR Pilot Project and was generally well received.
Workshops were run at the University of Melbourne, Yonsei University, and the University of Queensland. For a full list of our past workshops, please visit our website.
Several workshops have been confirmed for the next few months. Upcoming workshops can be viewed on our website. Newly added workshops are indicated with "*".