1 - 15 January, 2017: CarpentryCon, Steering Committee Elections, Rubic for online Instructor training, TalkPython.

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

##Highlights

• If you are interested in attending or helping with the planning of CarpentryCon, please sign up!
• Steering Committee elections will take place on January 23-27, and all members will be receive a ballot via email. Please look at the membership details to ensure you get the email.

##Tweets

• Have you considered making a donation to Software Carpentry?
• Talkpython episode #93 Spreading Python through the sciences with Software Carpentry.
• Huge thank you to the instructors who joined the new mentoring program!
• 8 best practices to improve your scientific software.
• Sign up for the Collaborations Workshop 2017.
• First DTL programmers meeting for 2017 scheduled for January 20 in the Netherlands.

##General

• We have set out a rubic to rank requests for online instructor training to ensure the spaces are filled.

• Our executive director Jonah Duckles was interviewed by TalkPython in December 2016, listen to the interview here.

• Please sign up for the January community call meetings on January 20 to hear the Steering Committee candidate’s plans and visions for 2017.

• Have a look at the candidate blog post for the 2017 Steering Committee.

• 12 workshops were run over the past 30 days. For more information about past workshops, please visit our website.

• Upcoming Workhshops:

  • January LCG-Aula 1-2, Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, UNAM, University of Michigan, NERC / The University of Bristol, Langley Research Center, Imperial College London, Neuroscience Research Australia, ResBaz Hobart, Python Stream, ResBaz Hobart, R Stream.

  • February Simon Fraser University, New York Academy of Sciences, University of Toronto, University of Texas at Arlington, AMOS / MSNZ Conference, UF Informatics Institute, University of Auckland, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Boise State University.