# Scientific Software Club at Cornell ## Introductory Spiel ## 12 Sep 2016

## The Problem 1. No explicit training in - Scientific software best practices - Modern software to make science easier 2. No community to learn this independently!

Community of Practice

## Community of Practice - Promotes common tech / practices in a domain - Supports - Newcomer training - Dissemination of knowledge - Ongoing development of expertise - We need both novices and "old hands" involved

## Potential models - [The Hacker Within](http://www.thehackerwithin.org) - [Mozilla Science Study Groups](http://science.mozilla.org) - [Software Carpentry](http://software-carpentry.org)

## Potential models - Formats - Ordinary courses - Short bootcamp/workshop - Club/meetup - We are the last, can organize/sync with others!

## Logistical details - We are a [Cornell club](https://orgsync.com/145925/chapter) - Initial officers: David Eriksson, Stephen McDowell, Eric Lee - Initial advisor: David Bindel - We need you to enroll to justify resources (aka pizza)! - We are still working on constitution and bylaws

## Logistical details - Requested mailing list: `ssw-club-l@cornell.edu` - Meetings will be Mondays at 6 - We will probably move from Gates 122 - Have about 8 weeks of pizza funding for now

## Logistical details - Current resources for training - Totient cluster (local) - Google Cloud Platform - Amazon Web Services - Working on - Microsoft Azure - Training accounts on DOE/NSF machines - Cornell local training

## Short-term plans - I posted [plans](https://cornell-ssw.github.io/plans.html) for what I want - You may want something else! - Short term - Today: Starting at the terminal - Next: Working with Git (+ totient login)