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[cp-discuss] Re: Confessions of Carpentries Instructors - survey

2023-09-01 Thread Aleksandra Nenadic

Hi everyone,

Many thanks to those who have completed the survey - just a gentle
reminder to fill it in if you can spare 5-10 minutes (the survey is very
short).

Best regards,

Aleks

On 25/08/2023 15:38, Aleksandra Nenadic wrote:

Hi everyone,

We are running an activity dubbed "Confessions of Carpentries
Instructors" - collecting your experiences running, teaching or
helping at workshops (things that went wrong, things that you are
proud of, your most important learning experiences, technology mishaps
and your recommendations to other instructors, helpers or workshop
organisers) via the following anonymous survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7FVZM1Fxj5eh0-svCwMVQFYZ1U5WF0xbgoR-Gq1jdO1YM3g/viewform

We will present selected submissions to the audience at the
Confessions of Carpentries Instructors panel
<https://pipgrylls.github.io/RSECon23-Training-Satellite-Event/abstract/Abstract-1/>at
RSECon23 <https://rsecon23.society-rse.org/>and we may also include
these anonymous submissions in a planned post-panel blog post or other
publication.

While this is intended to be a fun and informative activity, it also
has a more serious aim - running and teaching at workshops involves a
lot of experience-based learning and this survey and panel will give
you the opportunity to both support and learn from others.

Thank you very much for your contribution.

Best regards,

Aleks Nenadic

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[cp-discuss] Confessions of Carpentries Instructors - survey

2023-08-25 Thread Aleksandra Nenadic

Hi everyone,

We are running an activity dubbed "Confessions of Carpentries
Instructors" - collecting your experiences running, teaching or helping
at workshops (things that went wrong, things that you are proud of, your
most important learning experiences, technology mishaps and your
recommendations to other instructors, helpers or workshop organisers)
via the following anonymous survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7FVZM1Fxj5eh0-svCwMVQFYZ1U5WF0xbgoR-Gq1jdO1YM3g/viewform

We will present selected submissions to the audience at the Confessions
of Carpentries Instructors panel
<https://pipgrylls.github.io/RSECon23-Training-Satellite-Event/abstract/Abstract-1/>at
RSECon23 <https://rsecon23.society-rse.org/>and we may also include
these anonymous submissions in a planned post-panel blog post or other
publication.

While this is intended to be a fun and informative activity, it also has
a more serious aim - running and teaching at workshops involves a lot of
experience-based learning and this survey and panel will give you the
opportunity to both support and learn from others.

Thank you very much for your contribution.

Best regards,

Aleks Nenadic

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[cp-discuss] Fwd: UK Carpentry Community Calls Launch

2021-02-25 Thread Aleksandra Nenadic

First UK Carpentry community call starts today in about 2 hours’ time - join us
if you can - details are below.

Best wishes,
Aleks

Hi everyone,

Just a quick reminder of the first UK Carpentry community call on Thursday 25
February 2021 at 14:00
UTC<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2021=2=25=14=0=0=1440>.

Zoom URL to join: https://zoom.us/j/95360073649.

The meeting agenda is at: https://hackmd.io/V3ReKkEESzqyCNxWJdulOw, where you
can put your name down and any suggestions you may have.

Cheers,
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[cp-discuss] Launch of the UK Carpentry Community Calls

2021-02-02 Thread Aleksandra Nenadic

Hi,

[Apologies if you received this email already via local-uk Carpentries list.]

We are launching the UK Carpentry Community Calls - please see the email below 
for details.

If you are based in the UK and you are not already on local-uk list - consider 
joining it at: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/local-uk.

Best regards,

Aleks
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Training Lead
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www.software.ac.uk<http://www.software.ac.uk>
Twitter: @SoftwareSaved
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-sustainability-institute


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Subject: Launch of the UK Carpentry Community Calls
Date: 2 February 2021 at 16:30:00 GMT
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mailto:local...@lists.carpentries.org>>
Reply-To: local-uk 
mailto:local...@lists.carpentries.org>>

Hello everyone,

I would like to start the UK Carpentry Community Calls to:

• provide space for the UK instructors, helpers and workshop coordinators to 
get to know each other better and encourage collaboration
• get the questions answered and provide help with technical aspects of 
creating workshop websites, registering workshops with the Carpentries, 
Carpentry institutional membership or anything else
• help the community in the UK with organising workshops and finding 
instructors/helpers
• provide a welcoming and inclusive environment for the community to share 
their experience, explore topics of interest and network.

I suggest to pilot the community call in the second half of February - if you 
want to come please fill in the poll below:
https://whenisgood.net/mjfr97q

We can then decide on the frequency of the calls (e.g. monthly or once every 
two months) and set up something regular that suits most of the community.

Thank you and best wishes,
Aleks

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[cp-discuss] UK’s Software Sustainability Institute’s annual Collaborations Workshop 2021 (CW21)

2020-12-10 Thread Aleksandra Nenadic

Hi everyone,

UK’s Software Sustainability Institute’s annual Collaborations Workshop 2021
(CW21)<http://bit.ly/ssi-cw21> will take place online from Tuesday 30 March to
Thursday 1 April 2021. This is an unconference style event with keynote
addresses, discussion groups, mini-workshops, collaborative ideas and hack day
and CW21 will be around these areas of research software:

• FAIR research software
• Diversity and inclusion
• Software sustainability

Registration is now open via
Eventbrite<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collaborations-workshop-2021-cw21-collabw21-tickets-125883600237?aff=round02>
- we’d love to have you as our audience.

Cheers,
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[cp-discuss] UK Software Sustainability Institute’s Collaborations Workshop 2021 (CW21) - registration open

2020-11-23 Thread Aleksandra Nenadic

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to draw your attention to UK Software Sustainability Institute’s
annual event - Collaborations Workshop 2021 (CW21)<http://bit.ly/ssi-cw21>,
taking place online from Tuesday, 30 March to Thursday, 1 April 2021.
Registration is now
open<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collaborations-workshop-2021-cw21-collabw21-tickets-125883600237?aff=round02>!

The Software Sustainability Institute<https://software.ac.uk/>’s Collaborations
Workshop series brings together researchers, developers, innovators, managers,
funders, publishers, policy makers, leaders and educators to explore best
practices and the future of research software. The themes of the CW21 keynote
presentations, discussion groups, mini-workshops, collaborative ideas, and hack
day will be around the following areas of research software: FAIR Research
Software, Diversity & Inclusion and Software Sustainability.

We are pleased to announce that this year the CW21 keynote presentations and
panels will also be broadcasted live via our YouTube
channel<https://www.youtube.com/user/SoftwareSaved/> for everyone who is unable
to participate in the full programme. Keep an eye on the CW21 website or sign
up to receive reminder notifications and the links to the live streams closer
to the event here<https://forms.gle/1LC44ohVXphoZAbz9>.

If you are interested in sponsoring CW21, you can view our suggested
sponsorship packages here<https://www.software.ac.uk/cw21/sponsorship>.

To find out more information, see the agenda and view the call for submissions,
please visit the CW21 website<http://bit.ly/ssi-cw21> or email CW21 Chair
Rachael Ainsworth<mailto:r.ainswo...@software.ac.uk> with any questions.

Cheers,
Aleks

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[cp-discuss] UK Software Sustainability Institute's guide on running online training

2020-07-08 Thread Aleksandra Nenadic


Hi,

Just wanted to draw the community's attention to the UK Software 
Sustainability Institute's guide on running online training (based on 
our experience during the lockdown), in addition to guidance and advice 
from The Carpentries:


https://software.ac.uk/news/new-guidance-running-online-training-events

Cheers,

Aleks

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Re: [cp-discuss] Finding institutional homes for Carpentries-like materials

2020-06-17 Thread Aleksandra Nenadic


Hi,

Yes - I think you can add the materials as an issue in GitHub under 
Incubator and then the maintainers of the repository will review the 
submission and add the tag.


Cheers,

Aleks

On 16/06/2020 14:01, Bennett E.J. wrote:

Hi Aleks,


Whether you decide to host it in Carpentries Incubator or not  - an entry in Carpentries 
Incubator with a tag "share-existing-materials" to link to it would be very 
useful (in which case the actual location becomes less relevant as long as you have the 
full control to manage the material).


Am I right in thinking only those who have write-access to the proposals 
repository can add the share-existing-materials tag?

Thanks

Ed



On 16 Jun 2020, at 13:41, Aleksandra Nenadic  wrote:


Cheers,
Aleks



On 16/06/2020 03:44, Kevin Buckley wrote:

On 2020/06/12 21:43, Neal Davis wrote:

We have developed a curriculum called "Data Harvesting in Agriculture," a set 
of lessons focused on teaching farmers how to obtain and use open source data with their 
own data.

https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fdata-carpentry-for-agriculture%2Ftrial-lessondata=02%7C01%7CE.J.Bennett%40Swansea.ac.uk%7Ccc87859c73ac4fef018d08d811f2b50f%7Cbbcab52e9fbe43d6a2f39f66c43df268%7C0%7C1%7C637279081401427992sdata=T91%2BU3%2FNm2H8U6rdh8tIR2crs2jxtopYkHz3Rh0FJfI%3Dreserved=0

We are trying to figure out the best way to make this available perpetually.  
Candidates include housing it with the University Extension office or trying to 
find another ag-focused group in the Midwest to coordinate.

Leaving it floating (i.e., we developers and maintainers are the only contacts) 
seems undesirable if we want to support and encourage others using the 
material.  Finally, it's not really Carpentries Incubator material (in my 
estimation) because the audience is so different from the common 
academic–research groups we target here.

What have you seen work as a home for Carpentries-like curricula?

Neal Davis

Does your department/parent institution not have a GitHub presence of
it's own, Neil? If so, then why not host the material within that?

There's a suggestion in the above that the GitHub location may not be
"available perpetuallty", although that may only refer to the individual
lesson, which requires you to look for a non-GitHub hosting solution?

An alternative way to "host" the content would be make the lesson, as
in just the rendered _site directory, available for download so that
people can work with it at their leisure: an approach that would remove
the need to have a platform capable of providing the full site online,
to a need requiring a single webpage containing a link to the content.

If you wanted to get your own branding added into the existing lesson
template, so that your institution might then experience a sense of
"noblesse oblige" in respect of hosting it for you, then take a look at:

   
https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpawsey-kbuckley.github.io%2Foffline-capable-lesson%2Fdata=02%7C01%7CE.J.Bennett%40Swansea.ac.uk%7Ccc87859c73ac4fef018d08d811f2b50f%7Cbbcab52e9fbe43d6a2f39f66c43df268%7C0%7C1%7C637279081401427992sdata=9dAaBnDBrnW4vwub%2BhsAWxB0CLiVs8wJLhsv4iSny4I%3Dreserved=0

which is the rendered version of this

   
https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fpawsey-kbuckley%2Foffline-capable-lessondata=02%7C01%7CE.J.Bennett%40Swansea.ac.uk%7Ccc87859c73ac4fef018d08d811f2b50f%7Cbbcab52e9fbe43d6a2f39f66c43df268%7C0%7C1%7C637279081401427992sdata=lzmLv%2F0w0wSdN%2BuN%2Be3OY9ZWSyXi1ENyiWh7jsfBo8A%3Dreserved=0

Just my thr'pen'th,
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Re: [cp-discuss] Finding institutional homes for Carpentries-like materials

2020-06-16 Thread Aleksandra Nenadic

Whether you decide to host it in Carpentries Incubator or not 
(https://github.com/carpentries-incubator) - an entry in Carpentries 
Incubator (https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/proposals/issues) 
with a tag "share-existing-materials" to link to it would be very useful 
(in which case the actual location becomes less relevant as long as you 
have the full control to manage the material).


Cheers,
Aleks



On 16/06/2020 03:44, Kevin Buckley wrote:

On 2020/06/12 21:43, Neal Davis wrote:
We have developed a curriculum called "Data Harvesting in 
Agriculture," a set of lessons focused on teaching farmers how to 
obtain and use open source data with their own data.


https://github.com/data-carpentry-for-agriculture/trial-lesson

We are trying to figure out the best way to make this available 
perpetually.  Candidates include housing it with the University 
Extension office or trying to find another ag-focused group in the 
Midwest to coordinate.


Leaving it floating (i.e., we developers and maintainers are the only 
contacts) seems undesirable if we want to support and encourage 
others using the material.  Finally, it's not really Carpentries 
Incubator material (in my estimation) because the audience is so 
different from the common academic–research groups we target here.


What have you seen work as a home for Carpentries-like curricula?

Neal Davis


Does your department/parent institution not have a GitHub presence of
it's own, Neil? If so, then why not host the material within that?

There's a suggestion in the above that the GitHub location may not be
"available perpetuallty", although that may only refer to the individual
lesson, which requires you to look for a non-GitHub hosting solution?

An alternative way to "host" the content would be make the lesson, as
in just the rendered _site directory, available for download so that
people can work with it at their leisure: an approach that would remove
the need to have a platform capable of providing the full site online,
to a need requiring a single webpage containing a link to the content.

If you wanted to get your own branding added into the existing lesson
template, so that your institution might then experience a sense of
"noblesse oblige" in respect of hosting it for you, then take a look at:

  https://pawsey-kbuckley.github.io/offline-capable-lesson/

which is the rendered version of this

  https://github.com/pawsey-kbuckley/offline-capable-lesson

Just my thr'pen'th,
Kevin

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Re: [discuss] New training materials: Data Science for Ecologists and Environmental Scientists

2020-03-02 Thread Aleksandra Nenadic


Hi Scott,

That's fantastic - I am sure the authors would be delighted to see their 
materials in use more. I personally have not been involved in created 
them - I am just sharing the great work of others :-) - but the work has 
been in part supported by the UK's The Software Sustainability Institute 
I work for.


Here is the link in Carpentries Incubator, for reference, where you can 
also leave comments:


https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/proposals/issues/35

Best wishes,

Aleks

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On 26/02/2020 16:23, Scott Gruber wrote:

Aleks,

Fantastic. This is really good and very helpful to our work here. 
Thank for and your team for creating them. I’ll go through the 
curriculum over next couple of weeks and also see if some our students 
here at the Institute want to join me. I’ll definitely be using them. 
Great stuff.



Cheers,


Scott Gruber
UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainabilty
Twitter: @scott_gruber
Email: scott.gru...@ucla.edu <mailto:scott.gru...@ucla.edu>


On Feb 26, 2020, at 4:20 AM, Aleksandra Nenadic 
mailto:a.nena...@manchester.ac.uk>> wrote:


Hi everyone,

Check out these cool training materials: " Data Science for 
Ecologists and Environmental Scientists", 
https://ourcodingclub.github.io/course, developed by the Software 
Sustainability Institute's Fellows Isla Myers-Smith and Gergana 
Daskalova and a bunch of others 
(https://ourcodingclub.github.io/team.html). Their motivation was to 
help scientists overcome "code fear" and "statistics anxiety" in 
learners of all ages and from all walks of life and to teach best 
practice open science. Materials are quite suitable for people from 
other domains too!


The course includes three different streams, Stats from Scratch, Wiz 
of Data Viz and Mastering Modelling, using content mostly in R, but 
also with the opportunity to learn Python and JavaScript. There are 
quizzes and practical challenges and people can get certificates for 
their achievements.


Authors agreed to add these to the Carpentries Incubator 
(https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/proposals/issues).


Cheers,

Aleks

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[discuss] New training materials: Data Science for Ecologists and Environmental Scientists

2020-02-26 Thread Aleksandra Nenadic

Hi everyone,

Check out these cool training materials: " Data Science for Ecologists
and Environmental Scientists", https://ourcodingclub.github.io/course,
developed by the Software Sustainability Institute's Fellows Isla
Myers-Smith and Gergana Daskalova and a bunch of others
(https://ourcodingclub.github.io/team.html). Their motivation was to
help scientists overcome "code fear" and "statistics anxiety" in
learners of all ages and from all walks of life and to teach best
practice open science. Materials are quite suitable for people from
other domains too!

The course includes three different streams, Stats from Scratch, Wiz of
Data Viz and Mastering Modelling, using content mostly in R, but also
with the opportunity to learn Python and JavaScript. There are quizzes
and practical challenges and people can get certificates for their
achievements.

Authors agreed to add these to the Carpentries Incubator
(https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/proposals/issues).

Cheers,

Aleks

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Re: [discuss] Re: Insight on Data Carpentry and Git?

2019-10-21 Thread Aleksandra Nenadic


Hi Doug,

I forked a repo on introduction to GitHub by Rachael Ainsworth 
(https://github.com/rainsworth/4IR-GitHub-Workshop), my colleagues from 
Software Sustainability Institute,  just this weekend. She uses it as 
part of workshops on reproducibility in research. My fork (rather 
project-agnostic) is at:https://github.com/anenadic/GitHub-Workshop 
<https://github.com/anenadic/GitHub-Workshop>. You may find them useful.


We were running Hacktoberfest at the weekend in Manchester 
(https://www.meetup.com/PyData-Manchester/events/254560871/) together 
with PyDataMCR, PyladiesNW, RLadiesMcr and HER+Data and were struggling 
to get various groups to get going with working with GitHub/git. In the 
end, we got all the novice groups together and Rachael gave a quick 
1-hour workshop on using GitHub (not git) based on her materials. I 
thought it worked really well and suggested people to follow it up with 
a SWC workshop on git more more in-depth knowledge and understanding of git.


Cheers,
Aleks

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On 18/10/2019 11:56, Doug Joubert wrote:

Hello,

This is been a fascinating discussion so thanks to everyone that has 
provided feedback. Our introduction to R series has been adapted from 
the DC Ecology lessons. I mention GitHub during the project management 
sections. We set up a repository on GitHub and I talk about managing 
this repository both from the perspective of Rstudio and GitHub 
desktop. Personally I’ve never seen the value of teaching new 
programmers how to use GIT at the command line when there are so many 
other options. Our students have found this section really useful, so 
am going to develop this into a standalone class on reproducibility in 
research. If anyone has some suggestions I would love to hear them.


Cheers
Doug Joubert

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 17:34 Peter Humburg <mailto:peter.humb...@mq.edu.au>> wrote:


We have started teaching a modified version of the R DC curriculum
that teaches Git instead of SQL (because that seems to be more
relevant to the majority of our audience). We rely entirely on the
RStudio git GUI for this. Although that is a pretty limited
interface but not having to learn an additional tool (or command
line usage) helps to make git more accessible. Another change we
have made is that we don't teach git as a separate lesson. There
is a brief introduction to git but the majority of it is taught by
demonstrating its use throughout the R part of the course. Based
on feedback from the learners this has helped to reduce confusion
and made git more accessible. Admittedly, the git part of the
course covers only the very basics but the hope is that it will
get a larger proportion of the learners to actually use git. I
don't have any hard data on this but based on what they say
immediately after the course, the proportion of participants who
are considering using git certainly seems to be higher than after
an SWC course that uses the standard git module.

Cheers,
Peter

*Dr Peter Humburg*

Statistician

/Faculty of Human Sciences/

AHH Level 5

Macquarie University NSW 2109

T: +61 2 9850 9848

E: peter.humb...@mq.edu.au <mailto:peter.humb...@mq.edu.au>


*From:* Brooks Kieffer, Elizabeth Jamene mailto:jamen...@ku.edu>>
*Sent:* Thursday, 17 October 2019 3:21 AM
*To:* discuss mailto:discuss@lists.carpentries.org>>
*Subject:* [discuss] Insight on Data Carpentry and Git?

Hi everyone,

I’m reading the Baker /et al/ article about the initial instance
of Library Carpentry (Baker, J., /et al/, (2016). Library
Carpentry: Software skills training for library professionals.
/LIBER Quarterly, 26/(3), 141–162.
https://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10176
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/b-LfCk815RCr8x1jU2B1k9?domain=doi.org>).
In the Next Steps section, the authors mention learners’ struggles
with Git during this workshop, and note that other curricula
exclude Git because of its difficulty. Specifically: “…this is a
finding of comparable training programmes and is a reason for Data
Carpentry not teaching Git and GitHub” (p. 158).

There isn’t a citation for the information about why Data
Carpentry doesn’t teach Git and GitHub, and the Teal /et al/
article describing Data Carpentry doesn’t mention Git (Teal, T.
K., /et al/, (2015). Data Carpentry: Workshops to Increase Data
Literacy for Researchers. /International Journal of Digital
Curation/,

Re: [discuss] Carpentry-style lesson that covers git branching?

2019-07-25 Thread Aleksandra Nenadic


Hi,

Gerard Capes from Manchester has a SWC-style lessons on git including 
branching, rebasing and pull requests:

https://github.com/gcapes/git-course
http://gcapes.github.io/git-course/

Cheers,
Aleks


On 24/07/2019 23:08, Bennett E.J. wrote:

Hi Sumana

A colleague has written 
https://m4rkd.github.io/git-beyond-the-basics/, which is intended to 
provide a “what next” for the SWC git lesson, covers branching and was 
initially going to cover PRs, but they got crowded out by more 
git-specific material. The issue at 
https://github.com/M4rkD/git-beyond-the-basics/issues/21 mentions 
adding them.


Best

Ed

Sent from my iPhone

On 24 Jul 2019, at 22:54, Sumana Harihareswara <mailto:s...@changeset.nyc>> wrote:


I'm training a new contractor on basic shell and git, and the 
Software Carpentry materials have been FANTASTIC.


But I would like to teach her about branching and pull requests next. 
I recognize and understand that the git novice lesson doesn't cover 
branching and I totally get why 
https://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/guide/index.html . I would 
like to continue with a Carpentry-style approach that uses live 
coding, frequent formative assessment (including exercises with 
solutions), making mistakes and working through them, incremental 
diagram presentation, and so on, as in 
http://third-bit.com/2019/06/15/10-quick-tips-for-delivering-a-programming-lesson.html 
. Is anyone aware of such a lesson, covering branches and GitHub pull 
requests? Or is anyone working on one? I'm aware of some resources 
but haven't found anything that is quite what I am looking for:


* https://learngitbranching.js.org/
* 
https://github.com/lexnederbragt/github_collab_workshop/blob/master/workshop_outline.md
* https://github.com/dlab-berkeley/git-fundamentals and in particular 
https://github.com/dlab-berkeley/git-fundamentals/blob/master/pdfs/0-7_branching.pdf


I don't want to reinvent the wheel, and I'd like to 
use/test/contribute to such a lesson if it exists.


Thanks,
Sumana Harihareswara
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[discuss] CarpentryConnect Manchester 2019 call for proposals closes on 8 March 2019

2019-03-07 Thread Aleksandra Nenadic


*

Just a quick reminder that the call for topic suggestions and proposals 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdPtEFSWYyX09w1G1T5ZvhZJRQyBzXD4zvJbi_GDtnqhgsTKw/viewform>for 
CarpentryConnect Manchester <https://software.ac.uk/ccmcr19>will close 
on 8 March 2019. The conference will take place in Manchester from 25 - 
27 June 2019.



We welcome topic suggestions and abstract submissions for breakout 
sessions (group discussions such as “Carpentry Methods in University 
Courses”, “Diversity and Inclusion”, “Sustainable Software Practices”), 
workshops (longer sessions or training on specific topics such as “Ally 
workshop”, “Contributing on GitHub”, “Project Leadership”, “Shell Tips 
and Tricks”), lightning talks and posters.


We strongly encourage contributions from new members of the Carpentries 
community, with or without any experience of running a session at a 
conference.


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Best regards,

Aleksandra Nenadic, The Software Sustainability Institute

On behalf of the CarpentryConnect Manchester 2019 Task Force


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[discuss] CarpentryConnect Manchester 2019 Call for Proposals

2019-01-17 Thread Aleksandra Nenadic


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Dear All,


The first European CarpentryConnect event 
will be held in Manchester, UK, on 25-27 
June 2019 under the theme "Training Communities: Challenges and 
Opportunities in Europe" with an aim to, once again, bring the Carpentry 
community together.



We are delighted to open the call for topic suggestions and abstract 
submissions for breakout sessions (group discussions such as “Carpentry 
Methods in University Courses”, “Diversity and Inclusion”, “Sustainable 
Software Practices”), workshops (longer sessions or training on specific 
topics such as “Ally workshop”, “Contributing on GitHub”, “Project 
Leadership”, “Shell Tips and Tricks”), lightning talks and posters under 
the following general themes:



 *

   Lesson/curricula development (e.g. working on existing curricula or
   establishing completely novel materials, new introductory or
   intermediate lessons)

 *

   Increasing the sustainability of scientific software and research
   through training

 *

   Good teaching practices in research computing (e.g. different
   approaches for different levels of lesson, different workshop formats)

 *

   Tools and resources for teaching computational methods to researchers

 *

   Other topics relating to The Carpentries community or delivering
   training in research software:

 o

   Building a local carpentry group/community at research institutions

 o

   Running a Carpentry membership at an institution

 o

   Bringing the Carpentries curriculum to universities

 o

   Attracting funding or making a case with the senior management
   for workshops/membership at your institution

We strongly encourage contributions from new members of the Carpentries 
community, with or without any experience of running a session at a 
conference.



A draft programme for the 
conference is available online.


You can submit an abstract or your suggestions using the submission form 
until 
1 March 2019. The notification of the outcome of your application will 
be sent out by 1 April 2019.


Looking forward to seeing you in Manchester in June!


Best wishes for 2019,

The CarpentryConnect Manchester 2019 Programme Subcommittee

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Re: [discuss] Discussion Session on Delivering Exercises to Learners

2018-10-26 Thread Aleksandra Nenadic

Hi,

I added my name to the observers list, so as not to mess with the
participants list.

Cheers,

Aleks

On 26/10/2018 10:26, Toby Hodges via discuss wrote:

Hi All,

On Wednesday November 7th, 15:00 UTC, we will host an Instructor
Discussion Session around the theme of delivering exercises to
learners during a workshop. Sarah Brown will kick things off with an
overview of how she uses IPython ‘%load’ magic to provide exercises
on-demand within a Jupyter Notebook (see her excellent blogpost [1]
and this GitHub issue [2] for more details). We’ll follow that with a
more general discussion, where we’ll hear from the experiences of
other instructors:

* How do they provide exercises to their learners?
* What are the advantages/disadvantages to these approaches?
* How might we use/adapt the existing lesson material and template
to help with delivering exercises to our learners when they need them?

If you’re interested in learning more from our instructor community
about how to manage exercises most effectively while you teach, please
join us! You can add your name to the attendance list and check the
start time in your local timezone on the Instructor Discussion
etherpad [3].

For those interested who can’t attend, look out for a blogpost soon
after, summarising the discussion.

Thanks,

Toby

[1]:
https://carpentries.org/blog/2018/09/teaching-tip-exercise-discussion/

[2]: https://github.com/carpentries/lesson-infrastructure/issues/22
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Re: [discuss] Data Management Training Material

2018-08-28 Thread Aleksandra Nenadic


Hi Toby & all,

Here are some resources from the University of Manchester's Library:
http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/using-the-library/staff/research/services/research-data-management/

They run 2-hour workshops about research data management for each of the 
3 faculties here each month and try to tailor the workshops a bit 
towards each specific research domain/data.


Rosie Higman (rosie.hig...@manchester.ac.uk) is the person to talk to, 
should you want to reuse their material:

https://blog.research-plus.library.manchester.ac.uk/author/rhigman/
https://twitter.com/rosiehlib?lang=en

Cheers,
Aleks


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On 27/08/2018 09:25, Mateusz Kuzak via discuss wrote:

Hi Toby and all,

there are video recordings from FAIR data workshop organised for 
Health Research Board (HRB) Ireland:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5egX8ZzHdSwbtwdQGzNDusf1uH2W18V1

@all thanks for sending so many interesting resources.

cheers,
Mateusz

On 24 Aug 2018, 18:39 +0200, discuss , 
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https://www.library.illinois.edu/rds/workshops/
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