August 27 - September 5, 2015: Lessons Published, ReScience, SSI Fellowships Open, Interview, and Mailman Threads as GitHub Comments.

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• Here's another list of good reads if you're interested in improving your teaching practices.
• Terri Yu wrote about a code retreat focusing on pair programming and testing. The retreat included some interesting activities that allowed participants to experience different sides of software development.
• What informs decisions regarding funding of various aspects of HPC (training, hardware, and software)?
• Google Summer of Code 2015 has finished with some great results.
• Round 16 of the instructors' debriefing sessions was held on August 18. Feedback from the evening session includes pointers about subject-specific datasets, ice-breakers, and accessibility.
• Four workshops were run over the last ten days. For full details on previous 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 "*".
• September: SAEON GSN Indibano, Clemson University*, University of Surrey, The University of Leeds - Advanced Research Computing, Universidade de São Paulo, University of Chicago, Michigan State University*, University of South Hampton*, University of Queensland
• October: James Cook University, University of Michigan*
• November: European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)