How do you create and nurture communities of people who teach, learn, and collaborate to build scientific computing skills? That's a question central to much of MSL's work, especially as we embark on new long-term training initiatives.
On March 24, 6-8PM EST, we're hosting an online panel discussion on this topic on our forum. It's Ask-Us-Anything, MSL-style. We want to spur knowledge-sharing among those who facilitate local learning communities. Are you part of a study group, users' group, or other community of people who help each other with these skills? Do you want to start one or improve how yours works? Please join us!
Our panelists each work on local initiatives to train computing skills and build learning communities. We'll be talking about our models, approaches, and challenges, and taking questions and comments about how to build such communities elsewhere and improve them.
The Panel:
- Rayna Harris, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, UT Austin
- Daniel Hocking, NH Users Group
- Jeff Hollister, US EPA
- Isa Kiko, The Research Bazaar
- Erika Mudrak, Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit,
- Noam Ross, Davis R Users' Group, UC Davis
We hope that this will be just the first of many discussions of community leaders we can facilitate. To join, just logon to the forum topic at 6 EST and meet our panelists, and start asking questions. We hope to see you there!
(For the initial post of the thread)
We are:
- Rayna Harris, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, UT Austin
- Daniel Hocking, NH Users Group
- Jeff Hollister, US EPA
- Isa Kiko, The Research Bazaar
- Erika Mudrak, Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit,
- Noam Ross, Davis R Users' Group, UC Davis
We each facilitate local communities of teachers and learnings in scientific computing. We're here to chat about how our groups work, how they're organized, what work and what doesn't. Each of us will introduce ourselves below, then ask us anything!
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If you want to ask a question, you'll need to to sign up for a forum account and login. Don't worry, setting up takes seconds.
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Like this post to show us you're attending.
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When the thread opens up, start asking questions!
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If the thread gets too busy, we'll start forking our answers off into sub-topics. You'll see the link to a subtopic appear next to the question it addresses.