12 September - 17 October, 2016: Community Service Awards, Steering Comminty Elections, Lesson Maintainers Meeting, Newsletter, Carpentries Community Call.

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

##Highlights

• The very first Community Service Awards will be awarded before the end of the year.
• We are pleased to welcome two new Intsructor Trainers to the Carpentries.
• Please vote on the special election to amend the procedure of the Steering Committee elections.
• Some highlights on the progress made by our lesson maintainers on streamlining our decision-making process.
• The first joint Carpentries newsletter is out, please sign up.

##Jobs

• The Jackson Laboratory is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow.
• DataCamp is looking for a Data Science Course Developer.

##Tweets

• Demitri Muna published a pre-print on “The Astropy Problem.”
• @docker is now hiring Education Enigeers.
• @NatureNews wrote a nice pice on the use of GitHub.
• Community service awards nominations now open! Please nominate members on the Software Carpentry website.
• Order some Software Carpentry apparel and accessories from Cafe Press.

##General

• Carpentries Community Call now happening every third Thursday of the month, hope to see you there.

• Read more about techniques on how to get people talking more producitvely in class.

• Switching to scripting languages and using spreadsheets; facts and opinions discussed.

• As an Instructor it is good to know your audience within a carpentries workshop.

• A few pointers to help teach programming to the visually impaired.

• A recall of first experiences with SWC.

• Instructors dicuss some issues with attendance at the New Zealand workshops.

• A tale of how SWC brought three instructors together.

• We are working on a lesson to teach Python to people who are already comforatble with another programming language.

• ESIP would appreciate any input or feedback on their guidelines for the earth observation and geosciences communities.

• The tools we use may be perceived differently by men and woman.

• A new book that covers almost all the SWC materials have been released.

• Dr. Beth Duckles gave an interesting talk about “The Practice of Measuring”.

• Our deepest condolences to Hans Petter Langtangen’s family.

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

• Upcoming Workhshops:

  • October: University of Michigan,University of Amsterdam,CoDiMa - International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh,Plant & Food Research, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Université de Montréal, University of Oklahoma, University of Würzburg, Queen’s University, Purdue University, University of Michigan.

  • November: University of Otago and NeSI, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Arizona, NIH Bldg. 10 Library, University of Melbourne, Scion Research and NeSI.

  • 2017:

  • January 229th AAS Meeting.

  • February AMOS / MSNZ Conference.