16 February - 3 March, 2016: New Steering Committee, Software Carpentry Value Proposition, Webinar, Vacancies, Community Building, Instructor Training, and Modern Scientific Authoring

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

##Highlights

• Our new steering committee has been elected. Congratulations to Rayna Harris, Kate Hertweck, Karin Lagesen, Bill Mills, Raniere Silva, Belinda Weaver, and Jason Williams!
• Looking for a good model to show potentially interested stakeholders what value Software Carpentry brings? Jonah Duckles, our executive director, shared his views. Let us know how we can improve on this?

##Webinars

• DataONE is hosting Greg Wilson for a webinar titled Research Computing Skills for Scientists: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities from Software Carpentry on 8 March 2016 at 9am Pacific Time.

##New

• Over the past three years the rOpenSci community have learnt some interesting lessons about community building and open software. Their paper describing these lessons learnt are now published and may provide some valuable insights to others on similar journeys.
• The new instructor training pipeline is starting to ramp up. Five people are now qualified to train instructors while the next round of instructor trainer training is already underway.
• We’re currently in the lesson building phase for Modern Scientific Authoring. Comments and contributions are very welcome.

##Vacancies

• The Bioinformatics Training Facility of the School of Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge is looking for a Training Impact Co-ordinator.

##Other

• Did you realise that collaborative tools such as the etherpad could be tremendously useful for learners with (even slight) disabilities?
• We recently published some statistics on gender representation in the Software Carpentry community in response to a new paper on gender bias in open source. The paper has since received strong critique, but our stats remain.
• The first six ELIXIR Software and Data Carpentry instructors recently received their instructor certification. Read more about ELIXR Software and Data Carpentry activities.
• 18 workshops were run over the past 16 days. For more information about past workshops, please visit our website
• Upcoming Workhshops
  • March: Boston College Libraries, National Networks of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region, Alaska Fisheries Science Center / National Marine Fisheries Service, Calcul Québec, Université Laval, UC Berkeley, Notre Dame, University of Connecticut, The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC), EPSRC & MRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Regenerative Medicine, University of Manchester, Politechnika Krakowska, University of Miami, University of British Columbia, Brock University, University of Connecticut, University of Miami, UNIC Gif-sur-Yvette, University of Washington - Seattle
  • April: Online, UNC Chapel Hill, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • May: CSDMS Annual Meeting, Colorado Special Libraries Association @ CU Boulder, National Institutes of Health
  • July: R workshop - The University of Queensland