How We're Doing

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The first online session for our Indiana University students will run tomorrow afternoon (assuming we can get web conferencing to work—why is this still so hard in 2012?). Meanwhile, our other workshops are filling up quickly:

Site	Start	Ticketed	Space
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute	March 26	17	40
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	March 28	40	40
University of Chicago	April 2	116	150
Utah State University	April 14	26	50
University College London	April 30	49	50
Michigan State University	May 7	7	40
Newcastle University	May 14	9	40
University of British Columbia	May 22	40	40

and we are now discussing more workshops at other sites: Purdue, Oklahoma, Paris, Melbourne, and possibly ones in South America and Africa as well. If you'd like us to help organize one where you are, please get in touch.

Later: that's the good news. The news from other fronts is unfortunately not as upbeat. We're stymied issuing badges to people who've completed basic training while we wait for upgrades to the Open Badges site; videos of people solving simple problems have only been trickling in (we have half a dozen, we're aiming for 20-30); and we seem to be chasing our tail with regards to a web-native slideshow tool. I hope the end-of-month status report will be more positive.