15 July -15 August, 2017: Writing a blog post, Instructor Training Curriculum, Merger, League of Champions.

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Highlights

• It should not be a painful experience to write a blog post, so please reach out to us!
• Have a look at the approved motions for the Carpentries merger.
• We are pleased to announce the Instructor Training Curriculum has been updated and will be released end of August.

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• Building a community: 3 months of Library Carpentry.

General

• Please feel free to provide suggestions to our Community Lead via the Google form.

• We invite all our community champions to join the Carpentry Champions call on 22 August to come and share their knowledge and learn from each other.

• 21 workshops were run over the past 30 days. For more information about past workshops, please visit our website.

• Upcoming Workhshops:

  • August

  • University of Tasmania, University of Oklahoma, University of Michigan, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, University of Namibia, University of Arizona, Tucson, UW Madison, National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

  • September

  • University of Würzburg, Ghent University, Oregon State University/CGRB, University of Chicago, University of Southern Queensland, Macquarie University.

  • October
  • The River Club, Aarhus University, UCLA, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Institute for Theoretical Physics UAM-CSIC.