This week, the Digital Institute at Newcastle University played host to their second Software Carpentry boot camp. I joined Steve McGough of the Digital Institute to deliver this boot camp to attendees from the north-east of England. My colleague Mario Antonioletti and Aleksandra Pawlik, one of our agents, joined me as helpers for their first (but not last!) time.

The attendees' comments were positive and, as always, there were a number of valuable suggestions for future improvements, some of which will be applied next week, on which note...

Next up in the UK is a boot camp for bio-informaticians at the University of Oxford next week, run by Phil Fowler, and joined by Steve Crouch and myself. In December we're running a boot camp in Edinburgh as part of PRACE. And, in the New Year, Steve C will be heading to Europe to help present boot camps in Munich and Tuebingen.

For more news on our involvement in Software Carpentry or if you want to get involved as a helper, instructor or organiser, check out our Software Carpentry web page or contact us.