[data-carpentry-discuss] [R-discuss] Fw: [Discuss] R ISC proposals

[Laurent Gatto]

Dear all,

There has been some progress on the R ISC proposal for fund an R-based
instructor training [0]. Feel free to comment or amend as you see fit.

Best wishes,

Laurent


[0] https://github.com/lgatto/SC-ICS-Proposal


On 21 December 2015 19:13, Laurent Gatto wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Following up on John's recent email, some of us decided to get a go for
> an R-based SC/DC instructor course. I have created a github repository
> [0] with a very preliminary outline of the proposal.
>
> It would be great if members of the community could chime in with
> suggestions, advice and more if time allows. Feel free to reply to this
> email or use github issues. In particular, if you think this is a good
> idea and you would be interested in participating in the course, I would
> appreciate if you could add yourself to the putative participants list
> [1].
>
> I will also email the ICS to check that there is interest in such a
> proposal.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Laurent
>
> [0] https://github.com/lgatto/SC-ICS-Proposal
> [1] https://github.com/lgatto/SC-ICS-Proposal/blob/master/participants.md
>
>
> On 15 December 2015 18:20, John Blischak wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I apologize that I accidentally replied to Greg offlist. See our
>> conversation below.
>>
>> In short, one option would be to obtain funding for a round of
>> instructor training that is specific to instructors that would teach
>> R-based SWC workshops. This would be a great opportunity to grow the
>> SWC R community.
>>
>> If any of you would be interested in helping write a proposal and/or
>> organize this R-specific instructor training, please get in touch.
>>
>> All the details are at the link below. Unfortunately the proposals
>> appear to be due Janurary 10, 2016, but it only needs to be 2-5 pages
>> long.
>>
>> https://www.r-consortium.org/about/isc/proposals
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Greg Wilson
>> <gvwilson at software-carpentry.org> wrote:
>>> Hi John,
>>>
>>> The funding would be to lay on an instructor training course specifically
>>> for people from the R community, similar to the ones we run for partner orgs
>>> - basically, $10K would jump the training to the front of the queue.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Greg
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2015-12-15 5:05 PM, John Blischak wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Greg,
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 1:08 AM, Greg Wilson
>>>> <gvwilson at software-carpentry.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> How about fund an instructor training course for people from the R
>>>>> community
>>>>> who want to teach Data Carpentry or Software Carpentry?
>>>>
>>>> Could you please elaborate? My understanding is that the instructor
>>>> training for both Software and Data Carpentry is extremely
>>>> oversubscribed.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2015/11/december-2015-team-selection-announcement.html
>>>>
>>>> So would the funding be to support the training of additional
>>>> instructor trainers so that we can accommodate more trainees?
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dr. Greg Wilson    | gvwilson at software-carpentry.org
>>> Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org
>>>
>>
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