Summarizing the News
We made several big announcements this morning, so here's a short summary to guide you through them all:
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The bylaws for the Software Carpentry Foundation.
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Our organizational membership scheme.
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New rules for organizing and running workshops (including fees).
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Plans for instructor training (which also explains why we're delaying the start of the next online course by a month).
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Why we need more admin support and the tool we have started building to support that.
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Plans for mentorship and assessment, which are two of the things that elected members of our Steering Committee will be asked to take on...
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An update on our new lesson format (and links to some examples).
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The date of our first election.
We'll talk about all of this at the Dec 4 lab meeting (which takes place at 10:00 and again at 19:00, both times Eastern — see this Etherpad for connection details). Hope to see you there...