I'll second the apprehension about providing free labor to corporations who can very easily pay for it. And I wouldn't blow this off as a one-off thing, a "let's just do it this time and figure it out later if it becomes a problem" -kind of thing. When word gets out that we're providing training worth big money for free to any corporation who asks for it, I'd imagine we'll have lots more Monsantos knocking at our door (and not just global multibillion dollar corps). I'd suggest some serious discussion amongst the steering committee and everyone else on this list about what a policy should look like.
Stephen ----------------------------------------- Stephen D. Turner, Ph.D. Bioinformatics Core Director University of Virginia School of Medicine bioinformatics.virginia.edu<http://bioinformatics.virginia.edu> On Mar 4, 2015, at 12:25 PM, Jason Moore <moorepa...@gmail.com<mailto:moorepa...@gmail.com>> wrote: This is the first time I've noticed one of the workshops for a billion dollar corporation. What is SWC's policy on providing volunteer labor for corporations? I can get behind helping grad students at universities for free, but this seems very different. Corporate training is big money. For example, my girlfriend's place of business just paid $20k for a lousy two day workshop a couple weeks ago. Seems like this kind of thing would be ideal to do to fund SWC's more altruistic goals, but I'm not sure that having volunteers teaching it is necessarily what everyone has in mind. Not to mention, Monsanto isn't the most liked of companies. I'd potentially feel ok volunteering for corporate training if I knew it meant a strong pay off to our non-profit. That's just a thought. Sounds like something worthy of a board discussion if it hasn't happened yet. At the last non-profit I worked at, these topics certainly kept us at the meeting longer than we'd wished. Jason moorepants.info<http://moorepants.info/> +01 530-601-9791 On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 6:43 AM, Greg Wilson <gvwil...@software-carpentry.org<mailto:gvwil...@software-carpentry.org>> wrote: Hi everyone, We've been approached by Monsanto to run two or even three workshops side by side on April 20-21 in St Louis. They're looking for instructors with backgrounds in stats, genomics/bioinformatics, or both - if you're interested and available, please add yourself to https://swcarpentry.etherpad.mozilla.org/instructors-US. They have a lot of scientists who need our skills, so I'm hopeful that a good first showing will lead to repeat business... Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson | gvwil...@software-carpentry.org<mailto:gvwil...@software-carpentry.org> Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org<http://software-carpentry.org/> _______________________________________________ Instructors mailing list instruct...@lists.software-carpentry.org<mailto:instruct...@lists.software-carpentry.org> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/instructors_lists.software-carpentry.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org<mailto:Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
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