The Library Carpentry sprint is part of the 2018 Mozilla Global Sprint, which will take place worldwide on 10-11 May, 2018. Check out our sprint entry on Mozilla Pulse.

This material is presented as a backgrounder to the two upcoming community calls on October 10 about the future direction for Library Carpentry. This includes some material from this GitHub issue as well as some history for those new to this area.

The National and State Libraries of Australasia are funding an eight-city roadshow to bring Library Carpentry to their institutions in 2017. These are targeted workshops for staff of those institutions only.

The Library Carpentry sprint is part of the 2017 Mozilla Global Sprint, which will take place worldwide on 1-2 June, 2017. Check out our sprint entry on Mozilla Pulse. For those new to the field, a sprint is like a hackathon - it is a way to get people working together to create, update or extend open projects like Library Carpentry.

We will be offering simultaneous Software Carpentry R and Python workshops at Brisbane ResBaz on 8-9 February, 2017. These workshops will be held at The University of Queensland. Registrations are not open yet, but you can express interest in either workshop here. We will contact you later about registering.

Sorry if you saved these dates - 29-30 November, 2016 - for the Software Carpentry workshop at QUT, because it sold out in a matter of days! There is a waitlist. Join it here

If you want a Software Carpentry workshop at your institution, you can request one here.

There are lots of workshops coming up in the next little while. Griffith University have a Software Carpentry Python workshop on 15-16 September, 2016. The workshop details are here. Register interest in attending here.

Brisbane, Toowoomba and Perth have all just run Software Carpentry workshops, while Townsville has just hosted its first ever Library Carpentry workshop.

There is a low-traffic email list you can join to stay in touch with Australian and New Zealand Software Carpentry activities.

An inaugural Software Carpentry workshop will run at USQ in Toowoomba on 18-19 July. It will cover the Unix shell (bash), Python and version control with Git. Check out the workshop schedule, instructors and helpers.

Curtin University will host a Software Carpentry workshop on 18-21 July. Details here. The instructors are Andrea Bedini, Raffaella Demichelis, Matthias Liffers, and Andrew Rohl. Instead of doing a 2-day intensive, the Curtin workshop will run over four mornings.

If you want a Software Carpentry workshop at your institution, you can request one here.