[SGVLUG] ISEF on May 14-19 in L.A. (Was Re: SGVLUG Meeting this Thursday 03/09 Topic: Data Carpentry and Open Science

Thu Mar 9 09:44:18 PST 2017

HI all,
Given our focus on science this meeting, I asked Milena Acosta of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair to come to promote ISEF. If you're interested in talking to her, she will be around with flyers and materials from 7pm to 7:30pm. Much like SCaLE, they rely a lot on volunteers and people to help with planning and outreach.

https://student.societyforscience.org/attendees
 ISEF will be May 14-19 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. It is primarily for the judges and the finalists, but there is a Public Day and an Education Outreach Day on May 18th.  I'm really interested to see what our next generation of scientists and engineers are working on.
 Lan
 PS Yes, STEM outreach is my new hobby and it has been a rewarding experience so far.

      From: Lan Dang via SGVLUG <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
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If you're interested in participating in the Data Carpentry interactive lesson, please make the following preparations:

tl;dr Make sure you download and can run OpenRefine (recommended is openrefine-2.6-rc.2)  on your laptop
http://openrefine.org/download.html Aside from that, you just need a PDF and a CSV file from the link below. 
http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170208-151128031
Lan

      From: Lan Dang <l.dang at ymail.com>
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 Subject: SGVLUG Meeting this Thursday 03/06. Topic: Data Carpentry and Open Science

 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

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