More and more Study Groups are springing up around the world! June saw the launch of groups in Toronto and SFU in Canada, two (one at the SEC and one regional) in Sylhet, Bangladesh, and one in Baltimore at the University of Maryland - welcome aboard all.
This month, I'd like your help to design some open data events for your Study Group. Anything goes - could be lessons, projects, themed work-alongs - anything you think will be interesting to your group, and help everyone learn and work with open data. There's a conversation thread about this in the the upstream Study Group repo - let everyone know what you come up with there. And, more generally, feel free to use that issue tracker to have conversations across all the Study Groups - you are all part of a growing worldwide community, don't be afraid to start up a conversation!
Some other cool stuff that's going on with Study Groups around the world:
The UBC group got a visit from the local provincial government, to talk about open environmental data. Check out the lesson they did here.
We're designing an R Utility Belt! The idea is to create about 8 lessons on R packages that are useful across a broad range of disciplines, then create groups of about 5 lessons to mix in for particular subject areas; this way, everyone will have a set of material to easily pick up and teach from for a semester. Join the discussion on the main utility belt, and on the spatial / GIS supplement. Would love your help designing utility belts for other languages and topics, too!
Is your group working on something cool? Of course it is! Tell the world in the upstream repo, or let me know directly at bill@mozillafoundation.org.
Hi everyone,
More and more Study Groups are springing up around the world! June saw the launch of groups in Toronto and SFU in Canada, two (one at the SEC and one regional) in Sylhet, Bangladesh, and one in Baltimore at the University of Maryland - welcome aboard all.
This month, I'd like your help to design some open data events for your Study Group. Anything goes - could be lessons, projects, themed work-alongs - anything you think will be interesting to your group, and help everyone learn and work with open data. There's a conversation thread about this in the the upstream Study Group repo - let everyone know what you come up with there. And, more generally, feel free to use that issue tracker to have conversations across all the Study Groups - you are all part of a growing worldwide community, don't be afraid to start up a conversation!
Some other cool stuff that's going on with Study Groups around the world:
Is your group working on something cool? Of course it is! Tell the world in the upstream repo, or let me know directly at bill@mozillafoundation.org.