Join us for the Mozilla Science Lab Global Sprint!

By Damien Irving.

Most people are familiar with Mozilla because they’ve used the Firefox web browser. Dig a little deeper, and you’ll discover that Mozilla is actually a global community of technologists, thinkers and builders working together to keep the Internet alive and accessible. One of their coolest projects (in my opinion) is the Mozilla Science Lab, whose goal is to use the power of the open web to change the way science is done. Software Carpentry is part of the Mozilla Science Lab, so if you’ve ever been to one of our bootcamps you’ve directly benefited from the great work the Lab is doing, possibly without even knowing it!  

On July 22-23, the Mozilla Science Lab will host their first ever Global Sprint. Based on the Random Hacks of Kindness initiative, this event will see people from all around the globe ‘hacking’ on the Software Carpentry teaching materials for two days straight. Following the global timezones, the event will start in Australia and New Zealand. As our day comes to an end Europe will be waking up, so we’ll hand-off to groups in Paris, London and Edinburgh. They’ll then pass-on to people in North America (New York, Toronto, Vancouver, San Fransisco, etc), who will hand-off to us on the morning of the 23rd for a second lap around the planet.

Since many people in the Research Bazaar community are involved (or would like to be involved) in teaching Software Carpentry, we’ve put our hand up to be one of the Australian host sites for the sprint. We’ll be working on producing “capstone examples” for specific research disciplines, reviewing new lesson materials that people have been working on around the world, and even developing some new lessons of our own. If you’d like to attend for some or all of the two-days, the details are below. You should also add your name to the event Etherpad so we know who’s coming. See you in July!

Mozilla Science Lab Global Sprint - Melbourne site
9am - 5pm
July 22 - 23
ITS Research Services Meeting Space (Room 322)
Doug McDonell Building
University of Melbourne



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Get started by contacting your discipline’s 'Research Community Coordinator’, who can help you learn new tools and have fun collaborating with fellow researchers. Here’s the full list.  

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