Subcommittee Activity
 

Please Complete the Mentoring Survey
The Mentoring Subcommittee is gathering data to try to better understand the needs of our community members, and to improve the structure and format of discussion sessions to meet these needs. Have you filled in the survey yet? It should only take you a couple of minutes. Please respond even if you have never been to a discussion session before. The more feedback the committee gets, the more they can tailor these sessions to meet community needs.
 

CarpentryCon Taskforce
We are excited to announce that the Software Sustainability Institute has come on board as a Travel Sponsor. They have promised us $5,000 to subsidise people’s travel to attend CarpentryCon 2018. You can apply for travel support here or submit an abstract for a poster or lightning talk using this form. Hotel and on-campus accommodation information will be available this week.
 

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What you may have missed on the blog and mailing lists
 

Channels for Champions
At the 14 February Carpentry Champions call, we talked about the development of a new resource called the Carpentries Cookbook, which has community building ‘recipes’ you can adapt for your own, local ‘ingredients’. A discussion about that, plus what makes people stick to communities can be found on the etherpad. We have now created a Slack channel for Champions to network with one another. If you aren’t already a member of our Slack, sign up here, then join the #champions channel. You can also sign up to Carpentry Champions Announce, which will alert you to upcoming meetings.
 

Discussions
Lots of event activity this month on Discuss about upcoming events. Inigo Aldazabal Mensa posted about potentially meeting up with fellow Carpenters at HighPer2018. The event will take place in Spain on 23-24 April, 2018. Fotis Psomopoulos posted about the book sprint that created the first draft of an Open Science Training Handbook. Raniere Silva posted about the Collaborations Workshop 2018 in the UK (26-28 March, and tickets are available now). This workshop brings together researchers, developers, managers, funders, publishers and trainers to explore best practices and the future of research software.

 

Papers & manuscripts from the community

• Building a local community of practice in scientific programming for Life Scientists, by Sarah L. R. Stevens et al. bioRxiv, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/265421.
• Got milk, must conference by Rebecca M. Calisi, Science 16 Feb 2018: Vol. 359, Issue 6377, pp. 838 DOI: 10.1126/science.359.6377.838.
• Manifesto for Data Practices by Amy Gershkoff et al.
• Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about version control? Jenny Bryan, PeerJ Preprints 5:e3159v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3159v2

Community job postings

• Training Manager, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle.
• Research Scientific Programmer/Analyst, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University.
• Cloud Engineer at Gigantum.
• Lecturers in Data Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.