April 13 - 20, 2015: A DOI for Software Carpentry Lessons, Good Enough Scientific Computing Practices, Code Reviews, and Library Carpentry

Details

• The seventh instructor debriefing round has been summarised. Ideas like the use of word clouds for student feedback, interactive git sessions, and other tips are shared.
• Azalee Bostroem and her fellow instructors provided great feedback about a workshop run at the American Astronomical Society. They talk about instructor interaction before and during workshops, and allow helpers to teach a 15 minute section with great success.
• Jon Udell's latest update on Scientific collaboration via the Internet has been published by PLOS.
• Ian Hawke demonstrates how he uses Jupyter to test a small numerical program in a series of articles.
• Eight workshops were run last week: University of Texas at Arlington, Arizona State University, University of California, Santa Barbara, Northwestern University, University of Virginia, Imperial College London, NCAR Foothills Lab, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute.
• Several workshops have been confirmed for the next few months. Upcoming workshops can be viewed on our website. Newly added workshops are indicated with "*".
• April: University of Nebraska - Omaha, Washington State University, Content Korea Lab Gyeonggi*, Simon Fraser University
• May: University of Melbourne*, University of South Florida - College of Marine Science, University of New Mexico*, Western University, University of Melbourne
• July: The University of Queensland, The University of Queensland - AMOS sciences

Repository Activity

Other events

• The Open Science Grid User School is hosted at the University of Wisconsin, Madison on July 27-31, 2015. Applications close on May 1, 2015.