Highlights from the Software and Data Carpentry Community Calendar
New Instructors for Africa
The fourth Instructor training event in Africa took place from 21-23 February in Kleinmond in the Western Cape. Erin Becker led the workshop, assisted by local Trainers Martin Dreyer, Caroline Ajilogba, and Senzo Mpungose.
This three-day event included both the instructor discussions and the teaching demonstrations required for Instructors to complete their checkout. As a result, we now have twelve new Instructors badged.
Read the full workshop report.
Date Claimer : Bug BBQ 12-13 April
The Carpentries are preparing to publish the Social Sciences and the Geospatial Data Carpentry curricula through
Zenodo. Publishing gives contributors a verifiable product to cite on CVs and resumes. This will be the first publication of this material so we want to get it into great shape before we publish, so join a hacky-day to submit Issues and PRs to identify and fix problems. Other lessons can be included in this Bug BBQ. If you are a Maintainer for another lesson and want that lesson included, please let
François Michonneau know. All the details on how, what and when for the event are provided
here.
CarpentryCon Update
Only a few days to go till Early Bird registration ends for CarpentryCon 2018.
Buy tickets here. Prices will go up $50 (around €40) after the Early Bird rate closes on 16 March. Abstracts for talks and posters are currently being reviewed (you can still
submit yours), and we have published our conference
hotel deals here. The
website has all the conference details, and
applications for travel support are still open.
Apply to be a Curriculum Advisor
Creating teaching materials is one of the key skills employers in academia and industry want new hires to have. Build your skill set by applying to serve as a curriculum advisor for either the Data Carpentry Ecology lesson (
apply here) or for the Software Carpentry lesson stack as a whole (
apply here). Lesson Maintainers genuinely appreciate this guidance which helps build stronger lessons. We have already developed reusable text about skills developed when acting as
Maintainers,
Trainers and
Instructors. We will add text for Curriculum Advisory Committee members shortly.
Read more.
