Mozilla Study Groups November Update

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Welcome New Study Groups

Welcome to our newest Study Groups at Boston University, Rio De Janeiro (GER NUPEM/UFRJ), and the University of Calgary! Also, a big welcome to our colleagues in Australia and New Zealand who recently joined us, from the University of Melbourne, Swinburne (Melbourne), University of Queensland (St. Lucia), Griffith University (Brisbane) and Auckland - the Australia and New Zealand teams were among those who helped inspire this program, so it's a big honor to have them jump on board here. More Study Groups are spooling up around the world; we'll note them here and add them to the Study Group Map as their first events come on line.

Study Group Localizations

We've been talking lately with a number of new groups in Brasil interested in starting Study Groups in Portuguese. In order to support this effort, the main Study Group website now supports translations via localization files. For an example, check out the english file; making a translated version of this file will allow new Study Groups to host their website in any language they like. A Portuguese translation should be landing very soon - but we'd like to offer assets in as many languages as possible, so if you'd like to produce a translation, get in touch!

Feedback Season

It's hard to believe we're already into November, and the first year of the Study Group program is almost complete - your Study Group leaders always want feedback on how to make your meetups as useful as possible for you, but as the semester concludes we need your feedback more than ever. Get in touch with your Study Group leaders to let them know what works, what doesn't, and what you want to see in the new year. Surveys will be around in the coming weeks - stay tuned and let us know!

New Lesson Highlights

Here are the notes from just a few of the awesome lessons that have been delivered around the world in October. Remember, open a new issue here when someone in your group teaches a new lesson, and it'll automatically get added to the list!

• Intermediate Git, by Elliott Sales de Andrade.
• Introduction to matplotlib by Nicolas P. Rougier.
• Basic Statistics in R by lcoome.
• Basemaps in R by Dewey Dunnington.

Also, don't miss the new Journal Club tag in the Lesson Index - this is a great reading list of papers for discussion on open science and data science as they affect all our fields. Check it out and feel free to add your own favorites!