The Software Sustainability Institute’s Docker Containers for Reproducible Research Workshop brings together researchers, developers and educators to explore best practices when using containers and the future of research software with containers. The Docker Containers for Reproducible Research Workshop (C4RR) will take place on 27th - 28th June 2017 at Cambridge.

The Software Sustainability Institute’s Collaborations Workshops series bring together researchers, developers, innovators, managers, funders, publishers, leaders and educators to explore best practices and the future of research software. Collaboration Workshop 17 (CW17) will take place on the 27th - 29th Mar 2017 at the Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds.

Within Research IT the Research Infrastructure team has a wealth of experience in building and supporting computational platforms, storage, VMs, Web servers and a wide variety of custom, local infrastructure for research groups.

Research IT are launching a new series of sessions where you can discover more about Research IT, the skills and services that we offer and, importantly, how to include them in your grant proposals.

In the last few years members of Research IT have been helping in the campaign for the Research Councils to directly recognise and fund career paths via fellowships within a Research Software Engineering (RSE) role.

The next meeting of 'R at University of Manchester' (RUM) will be held on Monday the 13^th of March, at 11:00-12am in The Congregation, Vaughan House. RUM is open to all staff and students using R at The University of Manchester, providing an open and relaxed forum for R users of all levels to exchange ideas and knowledge.

Research IT, in collaboration with other regional universities, is considering holding a Mathematica summer workshop, provisionally from 27th – 30th of June 2017. The proposed 4-day event would comprise of an introduction to Mathematica (day 1); workshops (days 2-3) and teaching and learning using Mathematica (day 4).

If you would be interested in attending this event please contact Shih-Chen Chao by the 17th of March.

The Manchester Modelling Network has announced their second meeting “Modelling and Health” on Wed 1^st March.

There will be six talks from expert speakers from various schools across the university. Each speaker will outline the role modelling can play in their area and a discussion will follow. There will then be an opportunity where the participants can hold small group discussions and/or quiz the speaker, with an aim to making concrete plans for collaborations and, hopefully, grant applications.

The research software community event of the year - the Software Sustainability Institute's Collaborations Workshop 2017 (CW17) takes place from the 27th-29th March, in Leeds. This year’s focus topic is Internet of Things (IoT) and Open Data: implications for research. The themes of sustainable software will also be featured.

Have you ever thought about how you can make your results easier to reproduce?

Make is a tool which can run commands to read files, process these files in some way, and write out the processed files. For example, in software development, Make is used to compile source code into executable programs or libraries, but Make can also be used for many other tasks.

Research IT will be delivering an introductory training course on the UNIX shell (aka the terminal, the Linux command line) on 20th April 2017.

Thank you to everyone who came along to the latest Research IT Club. A fantastic turn out and great to see so many new faces! The presentations are now available from the links below.

If you attended the event and have any feedback then please let us know – it is only our second event so we are open to suggestions!