Hi all,

The UCSF Institute for Computational Health Sciences and the UCSF Library have set up a collaboration to bring in Software Carpentry to teach two bootcamp workshops, one an R and the other on Python on Nov. 20 and 21. The content is geared to grad students and postdocs who want to develop basic skills with these tools. Both will run for two days, 9 am to 5 pm. Volunteers are needed to help the Software Carpentry Instructors in providing assistance to workshop learners during practical sessions. While not a paid gig, breakfast and coffee/snacks will be offered in the afternoon of each day. You will be listed on the workshop materials and website as helpers and you can put this effort on your CV as service to the UCSF community and to show you have teaching experience in these areas.

You can check out a similar recent boot camp to get a feel for the content and whether your expertise is a good fit:

https://richford.github.io/2015-10-22-uw/

The roles for the helpers are described at

https://software-carpentry.org/workshops/checklists/helpers.html

If you're interested in doing this, please send an email to babbitt@cgl.ucsf.edu. I'm happy to answer questions you may have before deciding if you want to sign up for this. We'll take folks who are a fit on a first come, first served basis. If you decide to participate, we will also ask for your feedback on the experience, as having some expert eyes on the content and format of the boot camps and syllabi will be helpful for future workshops we want to mount on biostats and bioinformatics for the broad UCSF community. Getting your opinions about how best to do that would be helpful to us. If you're interested in participating as instructors in some of these later workshops, please let me know that as well.

Thanks.

Patsy Babbitt

Patricia Babbitt

Professor, Department of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences and

Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences

Director, Graduate Program in Biological & Medical Informatics

University of California, San Francisco

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