What workshops does Greg Wilson offer through The Third Bit?

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Greg Wilson offers five workshops through The Third Bit: Organizational Change, Closing Time, Teaching Tech Together, How to Not Be Wrong About AI, and Managing Research Software Projects. Each can be hosted in person or online, and arrangements are made by emailing Wilson directly. The site notes that a rider with further details is available for hosts to review.

The five workshops

Workshop What it covers Intended audience
Organizational Change An introduction to organizational change People with backgrounds in research
Closing Time How to wind down research and software projects, either deliberately or on short notice Researchers and software teams ending projects
Teaching Tech Together A one-day introduction to modern teaching practices Programmers and data scientists who teach
How to Not Be Wrong About AI What software engineers need to understand to tell good studies from bad ones Software engineers evaluating AI research claims
Managing Research Software Projects Ideas and tools for managing a team of research software developers Leads of research software teams

Format and how to arrange a workshop

All five workshops are available in person or online. To host one, email Greg Wilson; the site directs prospective hosts to a rider for details. The page does not list prices, minimum group sizes, or scheduling lead times, so those points need to be settled in that email exchange.

Who these workshops are for

The audiences differ by topic. Organizational Change targets researchers moving into change work. Teaching Tech Together is aimed at programmers and data scientists who want evidence-based teaching practices. How to Not Be Wrong About AI is for software engineers who need to judge the quality of studies. Managing Research Software Projects is for people running teams of research software developers. Closing Time applies to anyone who needs to end a research or software project, whether on a planned schedule or at short notice.

Background on the host

Greg Wilson was co-founder and first Executive Director of Software Carpentry, co-founder of It Will Never Work in Theory and The Architecture of Open Source Applications, ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator of the Year, co-winner of the Jolt Award for Beautiful Code, and a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh and has authored, co-authored, or edited 14 books on programming plus two for children. Several workshop themes connect to his books, including Teaching Tech Together (2019) and Research Software Engineering with Python (2021).