[SGVLUG] SGVLUG Meeting this Thursday 03/06. Topic: Data Carpentry and Open Science

[Braddock Gaskill via SGVLUG]

I think you meant this Thursday the _9th_

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Lan Dang via SGVLUG <sgvlug at sgvlug.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Reminder that we have an SGVLUG meeting this Thursday.  We'll be meeting at
> OpenX.  I'm sure we'll have a lot to talk about after SCaLE.
>
> Please RSVP on Meetup or with me as soon as possible.  Remember, I have to
> give OpenX a list of names.  I'd like a rough count by Tuesday night, though
> we'll continue to accept RSVPs till Thursday noon.
>
> If we have enough attendees, I'll be running a raffle using our leftover
> booth swag.  Everyone gets a free raffle ticket, but you can increase your
> chances by buying more tickets.  The funds go towards our expenses including
> Meetup, web hosting, and domain names.
>
> Some of our members have been very generous in their donations of prizes.
> Much thanks goes to Tux Lab for manufacturing and donating the booth swag
> and to Steven for buying the rest of the booth prizes.  We also had
> sponsored prizes from previous years like No Starch ebook vouchers and a
> Linux kernel Tux poster.  And I have this year's A/V team t-shirts.
>
> Our speaker this month is Gail P. Clement, Head of Research Services at
> Caltech and recent SGVLUG member.  She'll be doing a class on Data Carpentry
> and Open Science.
>
> https://www.meetup.com/SGVTech/events/234637699/
>
> TIME: Thursday, March 9th, from 7pm to 9pm
> LOCATION: OpenX, 888 E Walnut St, Pasadena, CA
> TOPIC: Data Carpentry and Open Science
> SPEAKER: Gail P. Clement, Head of Research Services @ Caltech
>
> TOPIC:
> The open science movement calls for open sharing of research findings and
> greater trust, transparency, and reuseability in making claims and reporting
> results. A researcher-to-researcher training community known as Carpentry
> (Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and others) has emerged to prepare
> researchers to practice open science using more open and collaborative
> practices; open source tools; and openly licensed and distributed methods,
> data, code.
>
> In this program, the Head of Research Services at the Caltech Library will
> describe the Carpentry movement; illustrate how lesson development and
> delivery takes place; and lead participants through a sample interactive
> lesson from Data Carpentry.
>
> This is a class.  Please bring a laptop.  Installation instructions and
> lesson outline will be posted  ahead of time. We will comment in the Meetup,
> if there are any updates.
>
> BIO:
> Gail P. Clement (http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5494-4806) is a Library
> Administrator and science research librarian who serves as Head of Research
> Services at the Caltech Library. She leads a team of subject librarians,
> repository, metadata and licensing specialists who develop knowledge
> management resources, publishing services, and authorship programs for the
> Caltech community. In this role she also represents Caltech Library on the
> Organizational Advisory Assembly for the Research Data Alliance, the
> Committee on Publication Ethics, and the Overleaf Steering Committee. She is
> a certified Data Carpentry Instructor, specializing in research data
> cleaning and enhancement; data sharing; and citation and publication of all
> research outputs.
>
> As Coordinator of Author Carpentry - a researcher training program in 21st
> century authorship and publishing - Gail collaborates with developers and
> researchers to create practical, hands-on, and useful lessons in
> responsible, reproducible, and reuseable research publication. Author
> Carpentry builds on a pilot lesson from Software Carpentryon Scientific
> Authorship. Author Carpentry workshops are offered at Caltech and through
> professional groups such as the CODATA-RDA Summer School in Research Data
> Science and the Association for Artificial Intelligence 2017 Tutorial Forum.
>
> Gail's professional leadership includes membership on the Research Data
> Alliance-CODATA Legal Interoperability of Research Data Interest Group,
> mentoring researchers from developing nations via AuthorAid; and service on
> the Editorial Board for the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly
> Communication (JLSC) where she co-edited the 2015 special issue on data
> sharing, data publication, and data citation. She also serves on the License
> Review Committee and the Scholarly Communication Taskforce of the Statewide
> California Electronic Library Consortium
>
>
> Lan