We’re an official Software Carpentry Affiliate!

We’ve been running Software Carpentry workshops since November 2013 and are constantly blown away by how popular they are. So when the Software Carpentry Foundation announced that it was looking for institutional Partners and Affiliates, we knew the time was right to take our relationship to the next level. (Was that too much? We’re just very excited!)

We are therefore very pleased to announce that we have officially joined the rapidly growling list of institutional Affiliates of the Software Carpentry Foundation.  

As part of the agreement, we will continue to contribute to Software Carpentry in a number of ways. Isabell Kiral-Kornek, Scott Ritchie and Kerry Halupka will continue their great work on the MATLAB, R and web programming lesson materials, Fiona Tweedie and Yuandra Ismiraldi will continue working on new lesson materials for the humanities and social sciences, Damien Irving will continue his role as the unofficial coordinator of Software Carpentry activities across Australia, and we will continue to to run and support workshops both at the University of Melbourne and also across Melbourne and Australia more broadly.

The Software Carpentry movement is rapidly becoming a global phenomenon, and we couldn’t be more excited about being involved. If you’d like to read more about what a formal affiliation could do for your institution, check out this in depth article about how much we (and more importantly our research staff and students) have benefited from being involved with Software Carpentry.