July 07 - 22, 2015: Hiring an Executive Director, Strategic Planning, SWC-inspired Book, Open Research Repository, AMY version 0.6, and New Team Members.

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Highlights

Software Carpentry is entering the next phase and will be hiring a new Executive Director. Please apply if you are passionate about the mission of the Software Carpentry Foundation!
Do you want to help steer Software Carpentry in the right direction over the next five years? Help us by completing a short anonymous SWOT survey.

Changes

Two new coordinators, Maneesha Sane and Katarzyna Zaczek, have joined the Software Carpentry team, and we're saying goodbye to Amy Brown.
We've changed the workshop administration fees. Please read the post for details.

Resources

"Effective Computation in Physics" written by two Software Carpentry instructors, Anthony Scopatz and Katy Huff, is now available.
An Open Research Glossary generated through a crowd-sourcing effort with a number of named contributors is now available.
AMY version 0.6 has been released with a long list of new features and some fixes.

Details

Future development of project Jupyter (iPython Notebook) will be supported through funds pledged by Helmsley Charitable Trust, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Belinda Weaver provided detailed feedback about their workshop in Brisbane. She emphasises the importance of providing context for teaching git and provides a list of to-dos for their next workshop planned for September.
Neem Serra wrote a truly inspirational post about her experiences as instructor at a recent workshop held in Hawaii.
Join the Jupyter mailing list if you're using the Notebook for teaching purposes.
Greg Wilson summarised the Top 10 Myths about Teaching Computer Science written by Mark Guzdial.
The latest instructor's debriefing includes a link to the workshop checklist, hints to encourage the use of stickies and etherpad, and a link to the gapminder R ggplot lesson material.
12 workshops were run over the past 18 days. For full details 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 "*".