1 - 15 January, 2017: CarpentryCon, Steering Committee Elections, Rubic for online Instructor training, TalkPython.
This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.
##Highlights
- If you are interested in attending or helping with the planning of CarpentryCon, please sign up!
- Steering Committee elections will take place on January 23-27, and all members will be receive a ballot via email. Please look at the membership details to ensure you get the email.
##Tweets
- Have you considered making a donation to Software Carpentry?
- Talkpython episode #93 Spreading Python through the sciences with Software Carpentry.
- Huge thank you to the instructors who joined the new mentoring program!
- 8 best practices to improve your scientific software.
- Sign up for the Collaborations Workshop 2017.
- First DTL programmers meeting for 2017 scheduled for January 20 in the Netherlands.
##General
We have set out a rubic to rank requests for online instructor training to ensure the spaces are filled.
Our executive director Jonah Duckles was interviewed by TalkPython in December 2016, listen to the interview here.
Please sign up for the January community call meetings on January 20 to hear the Steering Committee candidate’s plans and visions for 2017.
Have a look at the candidate blog post for the 2017 Steering Committee.
12 workshops were run over the past 30 days. For more information about past workshops, please visit our website.
Upcoming Workhshops:
January LCG-Aula 1-2, Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, UNAM, University of Michigan, NERC / The University of Bristol, Langley Research Center, Imperial College London, Neuroscience Research Australia, ResBaz Hobart, Python Stream, ResBaz Hobart, R Stream.
February Simon Fraser University, New York Academy of Sciences, University of Toronto, University of Texas at Arlington, AMOS / MSNZ Conference, UF Informatics Institute, University of Auckland, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Boise State University.